I think also that the probability is in favour of his being a country practitioner who does a great deal of his visiting on foot.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— used as a function word to indicate position in contact with and supported
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Macmillan
— touching a surface or an object
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Usage
234 uses of ‘on’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle