Which preposition to use with dew

of Occurrences 194%

I must not wrong with a thought one who had smiled upon me like an angel of lighta young girl, too, with the dew of innocence on her beauty to every eye but mine and only not to mine withinshall

on Occurrences 58%

I felt the cold dew on my forehead before the rapidly waning light assured me that the apparition was about to vanish.

from Occurrences 42%

He had been out since early dawn, gathering the dew from the sweet-scented flower, or painting in liquid vowels the pleasant calmness of the cow-pasture, or mayhap echoing with hie pencil's point the well-noted strains of the Shanghai rooster, when the far-off distant bell announced to him that he must finish his poetic pabulum, and hurry home to something more in accordance with the science of modern cookery.

in Occurrences 12%

" A pretty origin has been assigned to the moss-rose (Rosa muscosa): "The angel who takes care of flowers, and sprinkles upon them the dew in the still night, slumbered on a spring day in the shade of a rosebush, and when she awoke she said, 'Most beautiful of my children, I thank thee for thy refreshing odour and cooling shade; could you now ask any favour, how willingly would I grant it!'

at Occurrences 10%

I drop my tears amid the dews at morn; I trouble all the night with prayers and sighs, That, like a veil thick set with golden stars, Hideth my woe, but cannot silence it; Yet never more at morning, noon, or night, Cometh there answer back, Eurydice, Thy voice speaks never more, Eurydice; O far, death-stricken, lost Eurydice!

to Occurrences 8%

It might have startled her, and hurt her wifely pride, if she had seen her lonely husband drinking in little Nancy Carey's letter as if it were dew to a thirsty spirit; to see him set the photograph of the Carey group on his desk and look at it from time to time affectionately, as if he had found some new friends.

with Occurrences 6%

And thou shy?" 15 She, she, thro' the hush'd humid Midsummer night draws the dew from on high; Dew bright with the tears of its origin, dew with its weight on the bough, Gutta præceps orbe parvo sustinet casus suos.

as Occurrences 3%

It slaked its thirst with the slight fall of dew as a great, red tongue would lick up crumbs.

for Occurrences 3%

" Then, indeed, there was a dew for the maiden to wipe from her brow, unconscious that every word that was being said bore a different significance in the mind of each of the three.

like Occurrences 2%

What was there in the return of a perfectly ordinary man to his home that should cause such excitement in a creature of flame and dew like Marna? "Marna with the trees' life In her veins

before Occurrences 2%

" He was in earnest now; she felt it, and her anger melted away like dew before the sun.

off Occurrences 2%

Anatole, God's gift to the gastric juices, gone like the dew off the petal of a rose, all through your idiocy.

by Occurrences 2%

It is a mere canoe, decked with split bamboo, and partly covered in with mats, so as to afford shelter from the sun by day, and the dews by night.

across Occurrences 1%

But as for us, for Grace and me, we never leave this our happy Moonfleet, being well content to see the dawn tipping the long cliff-line with gold, and the night walking in dew across the meadows; to watch the spring clothe the beech boughs with green, or the figs ripen on the southern wall: while behind all, is spread as a curtain the eternal sea, ever the same and ever changing.

under Occurrences 1%

"The princess had bowed her head, and the soft and plenteous waters of her eyes had dried like dew under the midsummer sun; yet still she closed her eyes, for her brain felt fixed and alight with a nameless awe, such as passion lends presentiment.

unto Occurrences 1%

He must be as the dew unto Israel, Hos.

about Occurrences 1%

Or are they sighing faintly for desire That with May dawn their leaves may be o'erflowed, And dews about their feet may never fail?"

distil Occurrences 1%

Such did the manna's sacred dew distil White and entire, though congealed and chill Congealed on earth, but does, dissolving, run Into the glories of the almighty sun.

into Occurrences 1%

Then, drawing a saucer from her reticule, she wrung some dew into it and bathed her face.

around Occurrences 1%

These are they that halo the homes of good men, whose great hearts drank in the life of God's love in perpetual streams, and distilled it like a luminous dew around them; men whose thoughts were not mere scintillations of genius, but living labors of beneficence, bearing the proof as well as promise of that immortality guaranteed to the deeds of earth's saints.

among Occurrences 1%

Angels in the early morning May be seen the dews among, Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying: Do the buds to them belong? Angels when the sun is hottest May be seen the sands among, Stooping, plucking, sighing, flying; Parched the flowers they bear along.

over Occurrences 1%

Abá, that book is printed with the permission of the Archbishop!" Juli became impatient and wished to cut short such talk, so she begged the pious woman to go if she wished, but his Honor observed with a belch that the supplications of a youthful face were more moving than those of an old one, the sky poured its dew over the fresh flowers in greater abundance than over the withered ones.

Which preposition to use with  dew