Which preposition to use with crevices

of Occurrences 118%

Sticking the candle upright in a crevice of the floor, I went back from the edge, somewhat, and, taking a short run, launched the stone forward into the chasmmy idea being to throw it far enough to keep it clear of the sides.

in Occurrences 90%

W. caught the top of his skate in a crevice in the ice, and came down rather heavily in a sitting posture.

between Occurrences 23%

The shanty was built of logs, on three sides, the crevices between which were filled with moss, and the sloping roof neatly covered with bark, in layers, like an old-fashioned roof, covered with split shingles.

through Occurrences 11%

It seemed that he was bound for the School of the Sisters of the True Faith, for as he approached its gate, built solidly within the thickness of the high wall, without so much as a crack or crevice through which the curious might peep, he drew rein, and sat motionless on his well-trained horse, listening.

with Occurrences 6%

One after another he laid up the pieces of slate and coal, chinking in the crevices with dirt, keeping his head as much as possible out of the foul current, stopping often to rest, talking affectionately to Jasper, and trying, in a childish way, to console him.

at Occurrences 5%

For this line of light was the sunlight, filtering slowly through a crevice at the joining of the stones; but the sides of the tomb had been fitted much closer than I reckoned for, and it was plain there would never be light in the place enough to guide me to my work.

into Occurrences 3%

He got up, and climbing from his mother's knee to her shoulder, and standing on it, he looked into the crevice into which the bees were streaming, and saw their nest full of clusters of small round objects that looked like white berries.

on Occurrences 3%

They stood huddled together, dressed and undressed; now in red lurid light, showing ghastly faces of terrornow in white wreaths of smokeas far away from the steerage as they could press; for there, up from the hold, rose columns of smoke, and now and then a fierce blaze leaped out, exultinghigher and higher every time; while from each crevice on that part of the deck issued harbingers of the terrible destruction that awaited them.

for Occurrences 2%

Curved-bill wood-hewers, birds the size and somewhat the coloration of veeries, but with long, slender sickle-bills, were common in the little garden back of the house; their habits were those of creepers, and they scrambled with agility up, along, and under the trunks and branches, and along the posts and rails of the fence, thrusting the bill into crevices for insects.

by Occurrences 1%

There must be no loop-hole left by which she could again entangle him, no crevice by which she could creep into Buston.

from Occurrences 1%

Between the volcano, the mud geyser and the cavern spring are a number of hot sulphur and mud springs, of sizes varying from two to twenty feet in diameter, and many openings or crevices from which issue hot vapor or steam, the mouths of which are covered with sulphur deposits or other incrustations.

along Occurrences 1%

He retraced his steps and selected a second crevice along which he made his way, and at length he landed in a pretty good sized inner cave.

to Occurrences 1%

What a strange picture it must have been in the silent night hours,the old miser bending above the embers of the dying fire on the hearth, and reaching down the crevice to his treasures!

under Occurrences 1%

Showers of sparks and flames rose out from each aperture with sudden bursts, revealing every detail on the gray old walls; moss and lichen, a trail of ivy that had forced itself upward, long grass that floated in the hot air; a crevice under the battlements where a bird had built its nest.

about Occurrences 1%

" He put the lantern aside, lifted the great lid into its place, and then, with a hammer and a little chisel which he had brought with him from the tools which had been used for the building of the pier, he packed the crevices about the lid with oakum.

Which preposition to use with  crevices