Which preposition to use with worn

in Occurrences 352%

One decoration for the head in particular struck my fancy: it was formed of a silver tissue, containing fireflies, and intended to be worn in the night.

on Occurrences 289%

He wore on his head a red bandana handkerchief.

to Occurrences 126%

The soles of his boots were worn to pieces, and so long a time did he wear them without a change that the uppers stuck firmly to his legs; and, though the boots were soaked in hot water, the skin came away when they were taken off.

with Occurrences 125%

Her face, which had been so easy, was worn with trouble; her eyes were deep with things unspeakable.

at Occurrences 122%

Blighted affections are supposed to be the cause of his trouble, as he always wears at the top buttonhole of his coat a chignon made of red hair.

for Occurrences 101%

That was the celestium working on the tarred rope he wore for a belt.

of Occurrences 76%

You owe me the wear of your spats Sunday.

AS Occurrences 66%

IN THE UNIFORM HE WORE AS MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND

about Occurrences 51%

The foliage is of the same peculiar gray-green color as that of the Nut Pine, and is worn about as loosely, so that the body of the tree is scarcely obscured by it.

over Occurrences 51%

One would have been obliged to have a strong escort of police, and besides in evening dress, even with fur cloaks and the fur and woollen boots every one wore over their thin shoes, one would certainly have risked getting a bad attack of pneumonia.

into Occurrences 30%

Higher up they are slowly moving round and round in some great eddy which the river makes, as that at the "Leaning Hemlocks," where the water is deep, and the current is wearing into the bank.

during Occurrences 28%

Being a boy, it did not occur to him that Belle Meade had been engaged for weeks in designing this gown and others that she meant to wear during his brief stay at home.

out Occurrences 26%

I was not worn out of that human impulse.

from Occurrences 25%

It looked like the mud worn from a grindstone, and I at once suspected its glacial origin, for the stream that was carrying it came gurgling out of the base of a raw moraine that seemed in process of formation.

under Occurrences 19%

Luke, fish out the knife you wear under yore left armpit, lay it on the floor and kick it into the corner.

by Occurrences 17%

The saddlery had become much worn by passing through the scrubs, and the party was fully employed in repairs and shoeing the horses, many of which were very lame from injury among the fallen timber.

like Occurrences 16%

Beneath the lowest leaves you discover a fairy realm of mosses,hypnum, dicranum, polytriclium, and many others,their precious spore-cups poised daintily on polished shafts, curiously hooded, or open, showing the richly ornate peristomas worn like royal crowns.

around Occurrences 15%

Woolen comforters, scarfs, and fur mufflers, so commonly worn around the neck, are more likely to produce throat troubles and local chill than to have any useful effect.

through Occurrences 15%

Company K was drilling on the wide plateau between the camp and the highway when the ambulance bearing the afflicted officer came slowly over the road worn through the greensward.

without Occurrences 9%

It was this hat feather, a cock's feather at that and worn without sense of humor, to which Miss Slayback was fond of attributing the consequences of that heliotrope dusk.

with Occurrences 9%

And he lay on the bank like one left for death, so weary and so worn with all the horrors of the way that his heart was faint within him, and peace itself seemed to him but an illusion.

before Occurrences 9%

" "I came in the garb which I wear before the Virgin and St. Antonio, and if I was foremost in the race, it was more owing to the goodness and favor of the man at my side, than any virtue which is still left in these withered sinews and dried bones.

than Occurrences 8%

"There are worse liveries to wear than Uncle Sam's," murmured Dan Dalzell when, having arrayed himself, he glanced down lovingly at the neat, dark blue.

to Occurrences 8%

His hat has been long in a consumption of the fashion, and is now almost worn to nothing; if it do not recover quickly it will grow too little for a head of garlic.

round Occurrences 7%

"You don't look much like your pictures, my friend," he said, unwinding the scarf that he was wearing round his neck.

Which preposition to use with  worn