Which preposition to use with dilate

on Occurrences 44%

Dwell on the felicities of love in a cottage, and if he doesn't see it, dilate on the article in a brown-stone front, with marble steps.

with Occurrences 43%

His loving companion, eyes and month dilated with horror, stood still and rigid, gazing upon the fearful descent, and its tragic ending, then throwing her arms aloft, and giving a fearful shriek of agony that thrilled with horror the hearts of the hearersif there were anycast herself down in exact imitation of the fall of her hero, rolled over and over as he did, and ended by mingling her blood with his upon the same stones.

to Occurrences 14%

Olympia inquired, as the youth was dilating to his mother on the wonders to come.

in Occurrences 11%

As full understanding of what her mother said came home to Johnnie, her eyes dilated in her pale face.

at Occurrences 6%

Downes dilates at quite unusual length upon the magnificence of the new scenery and costumes.

into Occurrences 2%

How would he dilate into secret history!

within Occurrences 1%

Let us endeavour for one moment to conceive of this; does not the soul seem to dilate within us, and the body to shrink as to a grain of dust?

for Occurrences 1%

He dilated for thirty minutes upon the horn-blowing at Jericho, the siege, the wall-falling, and the sin of Achan; and then wound up by telling his hearersdrawing the moral from Achan's fatethat if they did wrong they would be sure to be found out.

from Occurrences 1%

The respiration is increased, the cutaneous capillaries become dilated from the quickened circulation, and a larger amount of blood is circulating through the skin.

like Occurrences 1%

His nostrils dilated like a horse's, and his eyes were restless.

until Occurrences 1%

The old woman's small eyes dilated until a ring of white showed round their beady centres.

Which preposition to use with  dilate