Which preposition to use with cornice

of Occurrences 28%

The afternoon was dark and electric lights burned along the cornice of the room engaged for the shareholders' meeting.

on Occurrences 6%

It hung like a cornice on the left-hand bank of the river and at certain corners the stones fell from the mountain heights almost continuously.

in Occurrences 5%

After he had kissed her Aladdin said: "I beg of you, Princess, in God's name, before we speak of anything else, for your own sake and mine, tell me what has become of an old lamp I left on the cornice in the hall of four-and-twenty windows, when I went a-hunting.

over Occurrences 2%

The dancing boys behind the small pillars with their gold chequering, the brackets, and the urn of the cornice over the second pair of pillars from the right, are all that remain of Donatello's own handiwork.

with Occurrences 2%

Was there a long carved oak buffet with a big, heavy cornice with three gilt dolphins in the centerand were there not dolphins in gilt on the backs of the chairsan armorial device?"

above Occurrences 1%

You can't imagine, Thirunleth you come down to thee, Thir" He turned his superior eye to the cornice above Redwood's head.

without Occurrences 1%

Lavretsky walked through all the rooms, and, to the great disquiet of the faded old flies which clung to the cornices without moving, their backs covered with white dust, he had the windows thrown open everywhere.

along Occurrences 1%

About half the cella remains, with an elegant frieze and cornice along the top, and a series of tablets, set in panels of ornamental sculpture, running along the sides.

below Occurrences 1%

Thence it is 15 feet to the cornice below the battlements.

from Occurrences 1%

It was partly for the sake of avenging himself on his mother, whose decisive practicality jarred the delicate music of a nature extravagantly ideal, that he so severely criticised all that she held sacred; and his strictures fell heaviest on the bow window, looking somewhat like a temple with its small pilasters supporting the rich cornice from which the dwarf vaulting springs.

to Occurrences 1%

The remainder is divided into a series of 20 feet heights, two twenties from cornice to top of parapet of octagon, 20 in each of the two decorated stages of the spire, 20 to centre of the upper spire-lights, three twenties to the finial.

Which preposition to use with  cornice