Which preposition to use with thrusts

into Occurrences 292%

The meat was supported upon long sticks, one end of which was sharpened, and the meat spitted upon it, and the other thrust into the ground, in a slanting direction, so as to bring the roasting pieces into a proper position before the fire.

in Occurrences 127%

The Boy undid the neck of the sack, thrust in his hand, and brought out a fistfull.

of Occurrences 112%

" She turned, then, plunging her hands into the great suds of feather bed, the whole thrust of her body toward him.

at Occurrences 74%

The dam of Red Lake is an elegantly modeled rib of metamorphic slate, brought into relief because of its superior strength, and because of the greater intensity of the glacial erosion of the rock immediately above it, caused by a steeply inclined tributary glacier, which entered the main trunk with a heavy down-thrust at the head of the lake.

through Occurrences 61%

This was neither Mrs. Roman's offering nor Abe's own old, frayed tie, but a new black one which had mysteriously been thrust through the crack under the door during the night.

with Occurrences 39%

With the rest of the family Beaumaroy was at his best; gaily respectful to Mrs. Naylor, merry with Gertie, exchanging cut and thrust with old Mr. Naylor, easy and cordial towards herself.

from Occurrences 38%

Fernando, bareheaded, engaged a stout Briton in a hand-to-hand struggle, which a quick thrust from Sukey's bayonet ended.

out Occurrences 37%

And finally, I fell under the feet of the crowd, and felt the whirl go over and over me, and beat upon my brain, until I was pushed and thrust out of the way lest I should stop the measure.

under Occurrences 32%

Regaining her own room, which was on the other side of their common sitting-room, she collected a few necessary articles, and placed them in a bag which she thrust under her bed.

on Occurrences 29%

Bows and bills, sa-ha!" Up rose the dust, forward swept the battle as Black Ivo's hosts gave back before the might of Mortain; forward the blue banner reeled and staggered where fought Beltane fierce and untiring, his long shield hacked and dinted, his white plumes shorn away, while ever his hardy foresters smote and thrust on flank and rear.

between Occurrences 19%

And then something thrust between me and the point, there was a leap and a shudder, and I was gazing at emptiness.

to Occurrences 13%

Now and then an alder brushed against her; once King waited, holding back a green barrier which he had thrust to one side.

against Occurrences 12%

Suddenly a warm nose was thrust against his shoulder and, with the assurance of a spoilt beauty, the cow laid her head upon his arm.

before Occurrences 9%

But Byron, with almost unparalleled folly, was perpetually taking the public into his confidence, and all his "sins of blood," with the strange additions of an imaginative effrontery, have been thrust before us in a manner in which Rochester or Rousseau might have thought indelicate.

toward Occurrences 9%

The place of honor in the thrust toward Soissons on July 18 was given to our 1st and 2d Divisions in company with chosen French divisions.

by Occurrences 8%

As early as the Seventeenth Century the possibility of developing a propulsive thrust by the use of a submerged helicoidal, or screw, propeller, had been vaguely recognized, and during the following, or Eighteenth Century, the same idea had been brought forward.

over Occurrences 6%

I have taken a cool thrust over a bottle, without the least animosity on either side, but both of us depending on our skill in the small sword for preservation from mischief.

among Occurrences 6%

Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion.

for Occurrences 6%

If the hand be thoroughly wet in water it may be safely thrust for a fraction of a second into a flaming gas jet.

without Occurrences 4%

Being thus so profoundly occupied and, moreover, his head being thrust without the window, he heard nought of the tap upon his chamber door nor of the whispered sound of his name.

across Occurrences 3%

A plank was speedily thrust across the fissure, and Frank Costello once more found himself amid a group of his friends, who were warmly congratulating him upon his miraculous escape.

like Occurrences 3%

For half a century Lombardy and Venetia have lived under the continual threat of an Austrian descent from the mountains, both from the Trentino, thrust like a wedge into the heart of Northern Italy, and across the Isonzo from the east.

about Occurrences 2%

The thrust about Holidays and quitters went home.

above Occurrences 2%

The latter leaped back with his arms thrust above his head, straining at his hands to get them higher.

after Occurrences 2%

I never would go thrusting after gold, I to get all Lord Clanricarde's estate.

Which preposition to use with  thrusts