Which preposition to use with wrapping

in Occurrences 982%

A while, and even this had gone, and I was wrapped in an impalpable, lightless gloom.

about Occurrences 61%

Once the door of a house across the street was opened, with a widening gush of amber light wherein he saw three women fitting wraps about them.

around Occurrences 54%

Mary wrote: What love is wrapped around me!

round Occurrences 41%

Could you look into a large open room, which we call a verandah, you would see Mr. Judson bent over his table covered with Burman books, with his teacher at his side, a venerable-looking man in his sixtieth year, with a cloth wrapped round his middle and a handkerchief on his head.

of Occurrences 26%

So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.

with Occurrences 20%

All slow, and wan, and wrapped with shrouds They rise in visionary crowds, And all with sober accent cry, 'Think, mortal, what it is to die.' Now from yon black and funeral yew That bathes the charnel house with dew Methinks I hear a voice begin: (Ye ravens, cease your croaking din; Ye tolling clocks, no time resound O'er the long lake and midnight ground)

to Occurrences 12%

Or if you are begged piteously to lift a stand-pipe wrapped to the likeness of a bundle, even though you sniff the imposture, seize upon it with a will!

from Occurrences 8%

Well wrapped from the wind, Onistah sat in the cariole.

on Occurrences 7%

Every one hurried to the railway, but Helen paused to gather a handful of blue forget-me-nots, saying to Hoffman, who waited with her wraps on his arm, "It has been a happy night, in spite of the danger and discomfort.

of Occurrences 6%

in a tone sharp with such authority that Liane Delorme instinctively obeyed, and the woman whom Lanyard had seen that morning coming down the stairs with the lighted candle entered rather precipitately, carrying over one arm an evening wrap of gold brocade and fur.

as Occurrences 4%

For Donnegan was in black, and he had a white neckcloth wrapped as high and stiffly as an old-fashioned stock.

at Occurrences 4%

The butler wore a new sort of grin as he took my wraps at the door.

with Occurrences 3%

Scarcely had the door of his apartment closed behind him, when he threw aside the invalid wrappings with a perfect fury, sprang from his chair, and hastened into the inner room.

for Occurrences 3%

Fernando carried a robe and some wraps for Morgianna, and he conducted her to a sheltered spot below the first ledge of rocks, where he spread a robe for her to sit on, and then, with loving fingers that thrilled with each touch, adjusted the wraps about her shapely little shoulders.

within Occurrences 3%

One finds wrapped within it the mystery, aspiration, and spiritual passion of the soul.

for Occurrences 3%

I am sure, for example, that many of you, listening to what poor account I have been able to give of transcendental idealism, have received an impression of its arguments being strangely thin, and of the terms it leaves us with being shiveringly thin wrappings for so thick and burly a world as this.

in Occurrences 3%

I need not trouble the reader with the various wrappings in which this essential piece of intelligence was involved.

like Occurrences 2%

The parting voice of the Scotch Preacher still booms in my ears: "This," said he, as he was going out of our door, wrapped like an Arctic highlander in cloaks and tippets, "has been a day of pleasant bread.

from Occurrences 2%

" The two men, meanwhile, under M. Armand's direction, had been stripping the wrappings from the other cabinet, and it finally stood revealed.

without Occurrences 1%

I begged of him not to move, for I knew that Ethel would never forgive me if I interrupted her singing; but he said he could get me a wrap without interrupting any one.

around Occurrences 1%

There were many wrappings around it, and many seals and foreign marks were stamped upon it.

before Occurrences 1%

" I had, with the aid of the house-maid, divested myself of my wet overshoes and wrappings before the advent of my companion, and had already ensconced myself in a deep Spanish chair, that stood invitingly and with extended arms in one corner of the fireplace, when he advanced to place himself on the rug for a general roasting.

between Occurrences 1%

In case this plan is employed, care must be taken to have sufficient wrappings between the bread and the bottles to prevent undue heat, and the bottles should be covered with an additional blanket to aid in retaining the heat as long as possible.

to Occurrences 1%

" Mr. Lindsey reached out his hand for the ice-ax, and, repossessing himself of it, passed it and its brown-paper wrapping to me.

into Occurrences 1%

I was going to say a round parcel, which it would have been but for something which ran out in a sharp tangent from one side, and pushed the wrappings into an odd angle.

Which preposition to use with  wrapping