Which preposition to use with bendings

of Occurrences 34%

Outside the circle of light were mysterious thingsstrange wavings of white hands, bendings of figures, callings of voices, rustling of feet.

over Occurrences 8%

The old cottage sat silent with closed doors, the crape hanging heavily over the funeral notice like a widow's veil, the little unseen garden sending up odors from its hidden censers, and the old weeping-willow bending over all.

to Occurrences 6%

spake Sir Fidelis, low-bending to his task; and thereafter sighed, and bowed him lower yet.

in Occurrences 3%

It has a brick exterior, has a comely little porch at the west end, is surmounted in the centre by a turret, has several yards of iron railing bending in various directions near the front, and will require considerable protection, if its general health has to be preserved.

toward Occurrences 2%

I once read a short story, in which a Slav author had all the lilies and bells in a forest bending toward each other, whispering and resounding softly the words: "Glory!

from Occurrences 2%

Dark-bending from ... the wood her wounded father seemed to come.

on Occurrences 2%

They could discover a bending on the part of the whites, and an apparent readiness to concede much of the ground hitherto withheld.

near Occurrences 1%

Amid rare pinks and violets he lies, And one sweet pink low bending near, he eyes.

above Occurrences 1%

Yes, Johnnie, honeyI'll get the lamp for ye." When Johnnie turned to her uncle, she found Millsaps bending above him, the small can in his hands, its spout approached to the rigid blue lips of the patient with the unconcern of a man about to fill a lamp.

Which preposition to use with  bendings