Which preposition to use with clusters

of Occurrences 699%

It was the first of one of the outlying clusters of this universe.

about Occurrences 79%

"Mind is a great thing, but there is more of sorrow, anxiety, and care clustering about it, than these wild things we hear and see around us suffer through their instincts.

around Occurrences 69%

The young, the brave, the beautiful cluster around them.

in Occurrences 52%

" Her father put his hand under her chin, and, lifting her face towards his, looked long and earnestly at the pure brow, about which the brown hair clustered in natural curls, the clear-cut nose, the laughing lips parted over a row of pearls, and the wonderful deep gray eyes.

round Occurrences 44%

Weary men and women bear their burdens thither; triumphant souls bring shining faces and uplifted brows; love and dreams cluster round the church, and the life of the soul, silent and hidden, is subtly acted upon by persuasions and convictions that rule the heart amid the fiercest storms and temptations of the world.

on Occurrences 34%

The trunk becomes deep brown and rough, like that of the Mountain Pine, while the young cones are of a strange, dull, blackish-blue color, clustered on the upper branches.

at Occurrences 30%

The large Sprague mansion, about which the village clustered at a respectful distance, was the "Castle" of local phrase.

like Occurrences 10%

It grows with numerous leaves, like our pot herbs, and climbs up the trees, producing the pepper in clusters like our grapes.

with Occurrences 9%

Pratt's Ordinary was at that time a very fine and famous place of its sort, with good tobacco and the best rum in the West Indies, and had a garden behind it that, sloping down to the harbor front, was planted pretty thick with palms and ferns, grouped into clusters with flowers and plants.

over Occurrences 8%

Far away lay a fishing-smack, with the men clustering over their net.

into Occurrences 6%

It then rejoined its fellows, and the whole company clustering into one meteor, swept aloft like a whirlwind.

along Occurrences 6%

It flows for miles through a low and marshy region, with dense alderbushes clustering along the shore, and scattering fir-trees, dead at the top, standing between these and the forests in the background.

from Occurrences 6%

The gas burners hang far down in pendant clusters from the ceiling, and with their glass reflectors, which would cast off a better light if cleaner, have a lamp-like effect, putting one in mind, when lighted, of some Eastern mosque.

near Occurrences 6%

He slipped down from the tree, gathered the large moist leaves that clustered near the pool and held them to the burning lips, Jones swallowed the drops with a hideous gurgling avidity, clutching the boy's hand ravenously to secure a more copious flow.

under Occurrences 4%

The houses are all built of hewn stone, and grouped in clusters under the shade of large walnut-trees.

against Occurrences 4%

Leaning on one lovely, bare arm, burnished hair clustering against her cheeks, she continued to survey him in delighted approval which sometimes made him squirm inwardly, sometimes almost intoxicated him.

behind Occurrences 3%

A chorus of jeers and catcalls went up from the gang, which clustered behind its leader like a pack of wolves.

as Occurrences 3%

About this terrible fact of congenital obliquity his new beliefs began to cluster as a centre, and to take form as a crystal around its nucleus.

beneath Occurrences 3%

One caught both her hands in his passionate graspanother threw his arm about her waistthe third buried his hand among the curls that clustered beneath the widow's cap.

within Occurrences 3%

A knot of females were clustered within the shadows of one of the side-altars, hovering around each other in the way that their sensitive sex is known to interpose between the exhibition of its peculiar weaknesses and the rude observations of the world.

of Occurrences 3%

The Pulpit itself has such Clusters of Ivy, Holly, and Rosemary about it, that a light Fellow in our Pew took occasion to say, that the Congregation heard the Word out of a Bush, like Moses.

above Occurrences 2%

Look, in No. 236, at the six radiant and rapturous angels clustering above the manger.

among Occurrences 2%

The cones are about three or four inches long, and two and a half wide, growing in close, sessile clusters among the leaves.

without Occurrences 1%

"Oh! Maman!" Simpson, his curiosity faintly stirring, accepted the invitation of the open gate, and stepped into an untidy yard, where three or four pigs and a dozen chickens rooted and scratched among the bayonets of yucca that clustered without regularity on both sides of the path.

by Occurrences 1%

She watched them cluster by a bench before the cookhouse, dabble their faces and hands in washbasins, scrub themselves promiscuously on towels, sometimes one at each end of a single piece of cloth, hauling it back and forth in rude play.

Which preposition to use with  clusters