Which preposition to use with throat

of Occurrences 271%

A proud man was the Doctor, as he passed his hunting-knife across the throat of the deer, and gazed upon its broad antlers, now in the velvet, pointing to the course of the ball right through its vitals, in on one side and out on the other.

with Occurrences 101%

Once having drawn it well over his nose, however, he immediately proceeds to cram it down his throat with both hands, and so it finally disappears.

in Occurrences 59%

The Colonel at intervals poured small doses of O'Flynn's whisky down the Boy's throat in spite of his unbecoming behaviour, for he was both belligerent and ungrateful, complaining loudly of the ruin of his clothes with only such intermission as the teeth-c

to Occurrences 36%

Then Sir Pertolepe feebly raised his bloody head, proffering his throat to the steel and so stood faint in his bonds, yet watching the jester calm-eyed.

for Occurrences 34%

I jumped for him with the quickness of a cat, and clutching him by the throat for a moment I had the advantage of him.

like Occurrences 30%

At that instant I unfortunately made a false move, and his hand closed upon my throat like a band of steel.

at Occurrences 29%

" They growled in their throats at that, but no man took it upon himself to speak out definitely, though they glanced sidewise among themselves.

from Occurrences 20%

My enemy lay in the pool of the burn, with a hole through his throat from Ringan's sword.

by Occurrences 11%

Study the general construction of the throat by the help of a hand mirror.

on Occurrences 5%

There is indeed one member of the club, who pretends to say that he caught me once making too free with his throat on a club night, after every body else had retired.

during Occurrences 4%

" "Can you say she did not clutch or grip her throat during any of this time?

over Occurrences 3%

Some one digs a hole; another produces a black cock; and Rama with a knife cuts its throat over the hole, imploring the spirit's departure, at the very moment that Krishna with a final shriek plunges into the sea.

through Occurrences 3%

I had been longing to give him a shaking for some time, and now I felt for his throat through his thick hair, and dragged him all around the street.

as Occurrences 3%

I am taken that way at times," and with that he rasps his throat as a hint that he would be none the worse for sleeping a night between sheets.

without Occurrences 2%

The Pandavas and the Kauravas flew at one another's throats without compunction although they interdined and intermarried.

above Occurrences 2%

Their gowns are laced commonly with streamings of ale, superfluities of a cup or throat above measure.

against Occurrences 2%

If the impulse was strong in him to twist the unclean old throat against any further ill-speaking, it gave no heat to the tone in which he answered: "It's you and your kind that say I mean harm to Johnnie, and that I would not marry her.

than Occurrences 2%

He could more easily have cut his own throat than that slender cord.

due Occurrences 1%

Attacks of sore throat due to improper methods of breathing and of using the voice should be treated by judicious elocutionary exercises and a system of vocal gymnastics, under the direction of proper teachers.

beneath Occurrences 1%

As for the first, he went below to conceal his good-looking throat beneath a black handkerchief, before he followed the deacon where it was most probable he should meet with Mary.

out Occurrences 1%

' It had been horrible to see Toussac tear the throat out of the hound, but it had not made my flesh creep as it crept now.

below Occurrences 1%

Her attitude showed the long slimness of her figure and the fresh curve of the throat below her bent-back head.

à Occurrences 1%

R. went up afterwards to cut its throat à la Moresque, when he was insulted by an Arab.

behind Occurrences 1%

With the strength of a maniac, his teeth clenched and the foam churning from the corners of his lips, De Montespan writhed round in the man's grasp, and shortening his sword, he thrust it through the brown beard and deep into the throat behind it.

before Occurrences 1%

She only felt that he had come, and that she would soon be saved from Benoni; she could not tell how, but she knew it, and smiled to herself for the first time in months, as she held a bit of jewelry to her slender throat before the glass, wondering whether she had not grown too thin and pale to please her lover, who had been courted by the beauties of the world since he had left her.

Which preposition to use with  throat