Which preposition to use with waists

of Occurrences 69%

He glanced aloft, cast a speculative eye on the stevedores trooping across the waist of the ship, and ascended to the quarter-deck where the mate stood leaning over the rail and uttering directed curses from between sweat-beaded lips.

in Occurrences 48%

For now they found themselves in a swamp, where they waded for two hours up to their waists in water.

with Occurrences 42%

and she is sitting there again beside me, in her white gown, simply made, and gathered at the waist with a broad blue ribbon, her slim white hands playing with the book upon her knee, her eyes gazing afar off across the water, her mouth drooping in the curve which it had never known till recently, her wealth of blue-black hair forming a halo round her head.

to Occurrences 18%

" "Miss Flora looked right nice in that pink waist to-nightnot?

like Occurrences 6%

Dropping her blanket from her shoulders, so that it hangs from her girdled waist like a skirt, she shakes the large bundle into a light shawl for her lover.

from Occurrences 4%

The Japanese have a little trick to fool a man who catches you around the waist from behind.

for Occurrences 4%

At this point in the river we encountered bad water, and all hands were constantly wet, while the natives were in the glacial stream up to their waists for hours at a time.

on Occurrences 4%

He had on awful nice clothes, but thin toes on his boots, sharp as needles, and gray socks with dots on them, and a waist on his coat like as if he wore corsets, and gray glovesand a cane, Swell!

by Occurrences 4%

TUNIC, a loose garment, reaching to the knees, and confined at the waist by a girdle.

without Occurrences 3%

In the kitchenware one could don black sateen sleevelets to protect one's clean white waist without breaking the department's tenets of fashion.

than Occurrences 3%

Open the parcel in private, and be warned by its moral: Better is wilful waist than woeful want of it.

over Occurrences 2%

She daintily and unhurriedly hung her waist over the back of a chair.

as Occurrences 2%

They spent their whole time before a looking-glass, and they would be laced so tight, to make their waists as slender as possible, that more than a dozen stay-laces were broken in the attempt.

near Occurrences 2%

About five in the morning the body was brought up, and laid on the waist near the half-deck door.

at Occurrences 1%

The artful rogue slips his arm about her waist at this, and, after a feeble struggle, he is permitted to hold this outwork unprotested.

into Occurrences 1%

The family sit down to their repast on the deck; the men keep an eye to windward and a hand on the tiller; the mother knots the cord that goes around the baby's waist into an iron ring, and, feeling secure against the bantling's falling overboard, chats sociably, occasionally enforcing a mild reproof to a vagabond son by a tap on the head with her chopstick.

underneath Occurrences 1%

I tucked a loaded revolver into my waist underneath my jellaba and kept the appointment.

up Occurrences 1%

I patted myself all over my front, from what I call my waist up to my head, and I went a bit round each side, and a little way up the back.

under Occurrences 1%

I saw them stripped to the waist under orders from the camp officers, tied to trees and lashed until the blood flowed.

out Occurrences 1%

And when Mrs. Governor Dexter's best silver-gray brocade was spoiled by Miss Pimlico, and there wasn't another scrap to pattern it with, didn't she make a new waist out of the cape and piece one of the sleeves twenty-nine times, and yet nobody would ever have known that there was a joining in it?

against Occurrences 1%

Dave danced the first two numbers with Belle, moving through a dream of happiness as he felt her waist against his arm, one of her hands resting on his shoulder.

Which preposition to use with  waists