Which preposition to use with arc

of Occurrences 93%

A black thundercloud rushed up out of the South, and seemed to leap all the arc of the sky, in a single instant.

in Occurrences 12%

We ran along the shores of Lake Bourget and up the beautiful valley of the Arc in misty rain.

to Occurrences 7%

And he liked the sensation when he leaped from one platform toward the swinging trapeze bar, aiming to grasp it in his hands and swing in a great arc to the other little elevated place, close under the top of the tent.

at Occurrences 6%

My reading for it was principally in the University Library (possibly some in London), but I borrowed some books from F. Baily, and I wrote to Capt. Beaufort about the possible repetition of Lacaille's Meridian Arc at the Cape of Good Hope.

from Occurrences 3%

The central circle, or metacompass, was divided by three hundred and sixty fine lines, radiating from the centre to the circumference, marking as many different directions, each deviating by one degree of arc from the next.

with Occurrences 3%

Bobby described an arc with her oar that incidentally showered the questioner with shining water drops.

into Occurrences 2%

You cannot surely mean to degrade the Joan of Arc into a pot-girl.

between Occurrences 2%

The sun rose from its morning bath on the left, and sank to its evening bath on the right, and in making its climb of the spacious arc between, shed a heat as great as that of summer, but not the heat of summer, on the pretty world of villas and hotels, towered over by the olive-gray slopes of the pine-clad heights behind and above them.

on Occurrences 2%

It was the first offering made to Joan of Arc on her bringing reinforcements into Orleans during the English siege.

like Occurrences 1%

We saw no penciling of smoke on the edges of the crystal fields touched up with dainty ripples too exquisite to be wavesthat which is a delight for a moment and passes but to come again, in forms too delicate to stay for a second, save in those pictures that in the universe fill the mind with memories that arc like starlight.

before Occurrences 1%

and "Joan of Arc before Cardinal Beaufort"; the subjects of his latest pictures are from history, English and French, such as "The Princes in the Tower" and "Cromwell contemplating the corpse of Charles I.," a great work; but the grandest monument of his art is the group of paintings with which he adorned the wall of the semicircle of the Palais des Beaux Arts in Paris, which he completed in 1841 (1797-1856).

for Occurrences 1%

We have only to read of the heroic achievements of little Joan of Arc for an example of such manifestation of reserve power.

around Occurrences 1%

Frequent threats of the bombardment of Saloniki by the Germans or by the Bulgars were made during January, but up to February 10 the threatened attack had failed to materialize and the Allies were strongly intrenched in a 30-mile arc around the town, while the guns of a powerful fleet of British and French warships commanded the approaches and protected transports and landings.

outside Occurrences 1%

On the other hand, when we find a portion of an arc outside of our own, we say it intersects ours, but are very slow to confess or to see that it circumscribes it.

toward Occurrences 1%

The stirrups swung amidships, so to speak, and whenever you tried to rest your weight on them for a moment they described an arc toward the rear.

towards Occurrences 1%

I only long to keep my eyes raised in a wide arc towards the end, to live each day as I can, and wait.

up Occurrences 1%

An immense stretching and flattening of arcs up to the straight blue wall on the horizon.

Which preposition to use with  arc