Which preposition to use with caverns

of Occurrences 166%

Great, gloomy caverns of places, unlit by any ray of daylight.

in Occurrences 47%

Three li before you reach the top, there is a cavern in the rocks, facing the south, in which Buddha sat in meditation.

with Occurrences 17%

At the same moment, I became conscious of a murmurous roar, that grew louder, and filled the whole cavern with deafening sound.

at Occurrences 12%

'The Guacharo quits the cavern at nightfall, especially when the moon shines.

on Occurrences 11%

Here is kept the sacred image, which has survived so many chances and changes; which, hidden for a hundred and fifty years in a cavern on the mountainside, made itself known at last by a miraculous illumination at night, and for the further guidance of the faithful gave forth a sweet scent.

to Occurrences 9%

I will now indicate the position of the cavern to thee: whether the ladies will still be found in it is beyond my power to say.

from Occurrences 7%

This was caused, it is said, by the air rushing through a bed of shingle beneath which was a vast cavern from which the sea continuously expelled the air as it rushed in.

into Occurrences 7%

A narrow hole led from the large cavern into an obscure space, which was so small that one could remain in it only for a few seconds with the burning torch.

under Occurrences 5%

And there are his agentsthe solitary but sufficient Threehewing, sawing, every one with the might and earnestness of a Demiurgus; under some instinctive rather than technical guidance; giant-muscled; every one a Hercules, or liker to those Vulcanian Three, that in sounding caverns under Mongibello wrought in fireBrontes, and black Steropes, and Pyracmon.

beneath Occurrences 4%

The majority of the Apostles, overcome with terror, were wandering about among the valleys which surround Jerusalem, and at times took refuge in the caverns beneath Mount Olivet.

by Occurrences 4%

The ground sloped gradually, and we reasoned that it would continue to fall away till we reached the mouth of the cavern by which Leith had entered from the far side.

near Occurrences 4%

Why didn't we examine the cavern near the fire before chasing him?

like Occurrences 4%

As Apollo fared through the sandy and rugged wilderness under the blazing sun of an African summer afternoon, he observed with surprise a vast crowd of strange figures swarming about the mouth of a cavern like bees clustering at the entrance to a hive.

within Occurrences 3%

I should not forget to mention that there is a cavern within the basin of the lake, the air of which is so stifling and noxious, that animals die if forced to remain in it, and lights are extinguished by the gasphenomena precisely similar to those of the well-known Grotto del Cane, near Naples.

of Occurrences 2%

HAWORTH, MARTHA A. Caverns of sunset.

against Occurrences 2%

Rushing in on him, I bore him backwards until he was penned up in the entrance of one of the caverns against the shafts of a wagon.

among Occurrences 2%

A stormy sunset greeted his arrival on the beach, but the tide was ebbing, and he wandered on till he reached some caverns among the cliffs.

behind Occurrences 2%

Accustomed to dictate extempore speeches on any subject whatever to his shorthand pupils, he was quite at his ease, quite master of his faculties, and self-satisfaction seemed to stand out on his brow like genial sweat while the banal phrases poured glibly from the cavern behind his jagged teeth; and each phrase was a perfect model of provincial journalese.

below Occurrences 2%

Down into the jaws of the cavern below the dock descended the jailer of six feet twothe only big thing about the place.

for Occurrences 2%

But, as the story of the opera is a pretty piece of Norman romance, some fair penciller has sent us the sketches of the annexed cuts, and our Engraver has thus pitted himself with Grieve, Stanfield, Roberts, and scores of minor scene-painters, who are building canvass castles, and scooping out caverns for the King's Theatre, Covent Garden, and Drury Lane Theatres.

through Occurrences 2%

A feeble ray of light shone into the cavern through some chink, and when I had the courage to look about me I could see that I was in a vast vault, bestrewn with bones and bodies of the dead.

about Occurrences 2%

The flames crackled; the wood caught like tinder; the flickering light retrieved much of the cavern about them from the utter dark.

in Occurrences 1%

Mark sifted through his memories to a time when he was a child of about six, and his parents had brought him to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.

between Occurrences 1%

There in that tirtha are three fiery caverns between which the Ganga, that foremost of tirthas, rolleth rapidly.

toward Occurrences 1%

They broke out of the circular formation, and in a long glistening line moved up the cavern toward the three approaching.

Which preposition to use with  caverns