Which preposition to use with burnings

of Occurrences 295%

I feel ever the burning of this dread growth.

in Occurrences 11%

So by devious ways Winfrida brought him into a little chapel, where, upon the altar, was a crucifix with candles dim-burning in the gloom.

at Occurrences 6%

To prevent its burning at the top, a piece of clean paper may be put over whilst the cake is soaking, or being thoroughly cooked in the middle.

by Occurrences 4%

fe, f., faith, belief; á de quien soy, on my honor; on the word of a gentleman; á á que, upon my word; I give you my word; in truth; por mi , on my word; auto de , public burning by the Inquisition; (hence) great fire, bonfire, fire.

on Occurrences 3%

Often of nights, after all the house was gone to rest, I would lock the door of the room, and sit with a candle burning on the table, and turn the diamond over in my hands.

with Occurrences 3%

But it came quickly nearerand still neareruntil at last he knew that it was a candle burning with the silence of a death taper a yard or two beyond his feet.

over Occurrences 2%

I saw a man of ninety who had been wrapped in cloths saturated with oil, to which fire was set, and who was left to burn, but whose friends came back in time to save his life, though I saw the fresh scars of the burning over his whole breast.

than Occurrences 1%

Manga Colorada, absorbed by a thirst which was more burning than revenge, did not at first see the slayer of his boy, and when he did could not move toward him because of fevered mustangs, who would not budge from their drinking, or who were staggering blind with hunger.

to Occurrences 1%

Hilda put on a smile for Sarah Gailey, who nodded morosely, and then, extinguishing the smile, as if it had been expensive gas burning to no purpose, she passed into the basement sitting-room, and slaked the fire there.

under Occurrences 1%

Presently a house caught fire, the flames spread, and the glowing blaze, the volumes of smoke, and the roar of the burning under the red-lit sky, gave a touch of dignity to the end of wicked old Kororáreka.

up Occurrences 1%

Now take the burning up of sugar in the organism, the great material source of energy, which is controlled by the pancreas, the adrenals and the liver, the thyroid and the pituitary.

near Occurrences 1%

A letter from a clergyman at Wrotham speaks of burnings near that place, and of the bad conduct of the people who interfere with the working of the engines, and seem to rejoice in the destruction.

before Occurrences 1%

The little porch light in its glass box might have been a candle burning before a tomb.

behind Occurrences 1%

She had a strange burning behind her eyes, as she listened, though she was not inclined to cry.

for Occurrences 1%

All sorts of slurs and gossip were reported to him by busybodies, until it became a settled purpose with Boone to make the Sprague family feel heavy heart-burnings for the sum of the affronts he had endured.

into Occurrences 1%

If the prevention of war depends upon the burning into the imagination of the electorates what the consequences of war are, a high intelligence quotient and revaluation of life will count for a good deal.

like Occurrences 1%

For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent, and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: and as I have gathered all the earth, as one gathereth eggs, therefore shall the Lord of Hosts send among his fat ones leanness, and under his glory He shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire."

as Occurrences 1%

As we look back with the knowledge of our later life, we translate the heart-burnings as unconscious protests against labeling your free soul, against testing your reasoning conviction of to-morrow by any shibboleth of to-day's belief.

Which preposition to use with  burnings