Which preposition to use with turbans

of Occurrences 35%

" He took up her hat, a small turban of breast feathers, laid out on the table beside him, and advanced with it clumsily enough.

on Occurrences 19%

A colored woman, with a flaming turban on her head, opened the door as she saw them coming up the trim walk lined with shells and gay with poppies, bergamot, asters, and heliotrope.

from Occurrences 8%

When I became aware that the roc had settled and that I was once again upon solid ground, I hastily unbound my turban from its foot and freed myself, and that not a moment too soon; for the bird, pouncing upon a huge snake, killed it with a few blows from its powerful beak, and seizing it rose up into the air once more and soon disappeared from my view.

with Occurrences 6%

Have our troops awaked, Or do they still, as if with opium drugged, Snore to the murmurs of th' Atlantic wave? Is India free, and does she wear her plumed And jewelled turban with a smile of peace, Or do we grind her still?

in Occurrences 5%

Curious stories are told of Maroquine adventurers leaving Tangier and Fez as camel-drivers and town-porters, and then assuming the character and style of merchants in Gibraltar, throwing over their shoulders a splendid woollen burnouse, and folding round their heads a thoroughly orthodox turban in large swelling folds of milk-white purity.

of Occurrences 3%

They presented, indeed, as they drew nearer, a magnificent array, with their gilded and gaudily painted prows, and their myriads of pennons and streamers fluttering gayly in the breeze, while the rays of the morning sun glanced on the polished scymitars of Damascus, and on the superb aigrettes of jewels which sparkled in the turbans of the Ottoman chiefs.

for Occurrences 3%

I remember once when Boss went to Memphis and brought back a bolt of gingham for turbans for the female slaves.

about Occurrences 2%

A bang of grizzled hair escaped from the black silk handkerchief wound as tightly as a turban about his head.

like Occurrences 2%

Three caskets they bore on their saddle-bows, Three caskets of gold with golden keys; Their robes were of crimson silk with rows Of bells and pomegranates and furbelows, Their turbans like blossoming almond-trees.

off Occurrences 2%

They first commenced examining my clothes, then wanted to take the turban off my head, and were at last so troublesome, that it was only by force that I could get any rest.

on Occurrences 2%

There were three of these negresses, splendid bronze creatures, wearing white djellabahs over bright-coloured caftans, striped scarves knotted about their large hips, and gauze turbans on their crinkled hair.

to Occurrences 1%

His beard was curled, and his hair hung in ringlets from his turban to his shoulders in a way Horace considered absurd.

at Occurrences 1%

These had been concealed by my master, Osman Aga, in his turban at the outset of his journey.

above Occurrences 1%

They were wearing blue turbans above the flowing white "haik" which fell back upon their shoulders, and the white burnous which reached to their ankles.

before Occurrences 1%

I remember once, in the confusion and hurry of baffling winds and whistling shot, having always turbans before the eye, and the bastinado in mind, to have beseeched St. Stefano in some such voice as one would use to a dog, and to have bullied the men with the whine of a young kitten.

around Occurrences 1%

She wrapped a silk turban around his head and then placed a high red and black hat with bright colored feathers on his head.

with Occurrences 1%

Picture a crowd of ragged men, some in drab turbans with loose ends hanging down their backs, but most of them in dingy red fez hats, faces unshaved, mottled, uglya squat people, very talkative, but terribly mirthless; and in shadowy corners of the low dark café solitary persons with hook-nosed, ruminative faces.

before Occurrences 1%

In truth, there was not the space of four fingers on it free from wounds; and he took off his turban before me from his head, and there was such a great dint in his skull, that a whole pomegranate might be put into it.

Which preposition to use with  turbans