Which preposition to use with waxes

in Occurrences 43%

Our tribes of every blood Follow thy feet. Like moons that wax in light; Or suns that scale the height; Or ageless hill; Nor change, nor autumn know; As pine and cypress grow; The sons that from thee flow Be lasting still!

of Occurrences 19%

Almost I thought to make out the customary grey dust lying on the wax of his features.

on Occurrences 18%

"And" added the Parsi, "so simple and guileless is he that the people walk over the glittering heap with wax on their feet, thus robbing him in open daylight; and yet he does nought, believing that the pile of wealth must shrink even as his piles of fish shrink, when placed in the sun to dry."

to Occurrences 18%

answered Fletcher, rising from his chair; "you're in a wax to-night.

with Occurrences 13%

The bearings of the remark did not strike me at the time, as a cannon-ball from the direction of Versailles whirled within twenty feet of the balloon and lifted the right flank (a military expression) of my moustache into your subscriber's eye, notwithstanding it was waxed with LOUVET'S best, warranted to keep each hair en règle, even in the worst gales.

before Occurrences 8%

Kurt felt himself as wax before those blue eyes.

into Occurrences 7%

He wore a dressing-gown of soiled quilted silk and linen not too immaculate; but his little sandy moustache and the goatee that decorated his receding chin were both carefully waxed into sharp pointsan indication that he possessed at least one vanity.

over Occurrences 6%

A single blow was enough to melt the wax over a certain zone; and this indicated clearly how much of the lateral faces had been raised by the shock to the temperature of melting wax.

for Occurrences 6%

The tea was made of the native hops, which out on the ranges grew; Twas sweetened with honey bees and wax for the stringy-bark cockatoo.

from Occurrences 6%

Mr. Allerdyke, the secret of these murders and thefts isthere!" Chettle replaced the watch in the cardboard box from which he had taken it, produced a bit of sealing-wax from his pocket, sealed up the box, and put it and the other things belonging to Lydenberg back in the small trunk from which he had withdrawn them to show his companion.

at Occurrences 3%

Mr. Eulenstein has remedied that inconvenience, by joining sixteen Jew's harps, which he tunes by placing smaller or greater quantities of sealing-wax at the extremity of the tongue.

as Occurrences 3%

At this moment we seem to pass into the region of the abnormal: "After this my sight began to fail; it waxed as dark about me in the chamber as if it had been night, save in the image of the cross, wherein I beheld a common light, and I wist not how.

without Occurrences 2%

As those conditions, from first to last, have been publicly recited from those tablets or wax without wicked or fraudulent intent, and as they have been most correctly understood here this day, the Roman people will not be the first to fail to observe those conditions.

around Occurrences 2%

The bees, of both extremes alike afraid, Their wax around the whistling crannies spread, And suck out clammy dews from herbs and flowers, To smear the chinks, and plaster up the pores; For this they hoard up glue, whose clinging drops, Like pitch or bird-lime, hang in stringy ropes.

by Occurrences 2%

So they dwelt for many a day, waxing by the favour of God both numerous and learned, until by ill-hap they hearkened into evil counsel and called upon the God without just reason.

out Occurrences 1%

It was the discovery, that bees make their wax out of honey, and not of pollen, as was formerly believed.

under Occurrences 1%

"It's practically a painless operationjust one injection of hot paraffin wax under the skin.

behind Occurrences 1%

" Then, o'erleaping that which sprawled behind the curtain, Beltane sped along a passage and down a winding stair, yet pausing, ever and anon, with flaring torch: and ever small fires waxed behind him.

within Occurrences 1%

She noticed the light, distinguished figure, the beauty of the small head; and her hostility waxed within her.

about Occurrences 1%

At the mouth of the hollow they had built a curious entrance of their own, in the shape of a spout of wax about a foot long.

Which preposition to use with  waxes