Which preposition to use with wash

in Occurrences 147%

Take five quarts of new milk, run it to a tender curd, then hang it in a cloth to drain, rub into them a pound of butter that is well washed in rose-water, put to it the yolks of seven or eight eggs, and two of the whites; season it with cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar.

of Occurrences 108%

Then they clinched, and in a moment were rolling over and over just beyond the wash of the surf.

with Occurrences 86%

The path of the vanished glacier was warm now, and shone in many places as if washed with silver.

from Occurrences 50%

In the Newfoundland fishery they are taken out previous to incipient putrefaction, washed from their slime and salted for exportation.

for Occurrences 46%

Mr. Coxwell began to think they might be getting too near the Wash for safety, and they therefore came down quickly, and reached the earth with such force that the scientific instruments were nearly all broken.

over Occurrences 32%

But the British tars stuck to their guns and they continued to hurl shells into the German line until the water of the North Sea washed over them.

out Occurrences 30%

In a few minutes the cloud withers to a mesh of dim filaments and disappears, leaving the sky perfectly clear and bright, every dust-particle wiped and washed out of it.

at Occurrences 29%

* THE WOMAN AND THE FAIRY A woman who was named Omm Halima went one day to the stream to wash at the old spring.

on Occurrences 28%

Forward of this, the water rolled about, washing on board and pouring out.

into Occurrences 24%

I remember, too, in that same season of storms, a lake made milky white for days, and crowded out of its bed by clay washed into it by a fury of rain, with the trout floating in it belly up, stunned by the shock of the sudden flood.

before Occurrences 14%

Should be well soaked in salt and water, and thoroughly washed before dressing them.

to Occurrences 14%

Roman Porchester was just what mediaeval Porchester was, a great fortress, not a "city," nor a village, but a port similar to the others that lined the Saxon shore from the Wash to Beachey Head.

by Occurrences 6%

Would they go washing by the mission in the great spring flood, that all men spoke of with the same grave look?

about Occurrences 5%

On examining their cavities he will find them to be simply hollow casts of innumerable joints of Crinoids, so exquisitely preserved, even to their most delicate markings, that it is plain they were never washed about upon a beach, but have grown where, or nearly where, they lie.

down Occurrences 4%

In fact, he had known all the hay crop and the most part of the young turnips washed down the valley.

like Occurrences 4%

One day when Lil-lie saw her cat Sit down and lick a kit-ten's face; "No, puss," said she, "don't wash like that My bath will be the pro-per place.

against Occurrences 4%

The use of the spaddle is to stir up and remove from the sides of the freezing pot the cream, which in the shaking may have washed against it, and by stirring it in with the rest, to prevent waste of it occurring.

across Occurrences 4%

The comparative darkness washed across his eyes in a pleasant wave and he was now able to distinguish a few things in the room.

as Occurrences 3%

I was then sent for salt and water, and the bruises of the suffering chattel were washed as usual in the stinging brine.

around Occurrences 3%

It appeared to Mark as if the sea had formerly washed around the crater, giving this form to its bottom for so wall-like was the rock for these ten or twelve feet, that it would have defied the efforts of a man for a long time, to overcome the difficulties of the ascent.

off Occurrences 3%

Three cormorant dandies were washed off the rock, Were washed off the rock by a powerful wave; And, quite unprepared for the terrible shock, They sank in the depths of a watery grave.

past Occurrences 3%

The words were still on his lips, when the same black object came sweeping down the wave to windward, and a pinnace, bottom upwards, washed past them in the trough.

through Occurrences 3%

Three whole days and nights alternate Old Nokomis and the seagulls Stripped the oily flesh of Nahma, Till the waves washed through the rib-bones, Till the sea-gulls came no longer, And upon the sands lay nothing

after Occurrences 2%

The dog to be washed after three days.

than Occurrences 2%

"Now, go to it," he exhorted her; "I bet I get a better wash than you.

Which preposition to use with  wash