Which preposition to use with dimness

of Occurrences 53%

the little Pilgrim cried, feeling in her heart that she would like to go to all the worlds and tell them of our Lord, and of his love, and how the thought of him makes you strong; and it troubled her a little to hear her friends speak of the low skies, and the short days, and the dimness of that dear country which she had left behind, in which there were so many still whom she loved.

in Occurrences 6%

At intervals she tried to turn on the water, hoping for a few drops at least; at intervals she sat down to wait for him; then, the inaction becoming unendurable, musing goaded her into motion, and she ascended to the floor above, groping through the dimness in futile search for Clarence.

like Occurrences 3%

The mysterious "knees," those strange, naked, blackened roots, so wildly gnarled and twisted about the foot of the cypress, appeared to writhe out of the swamp's awful dimness like monstrous serpents seen in a dreadful dream.

before Occurrences 2%

There came a dimness before Simon's eyes, and a ringing in his ears.

after Occurrences 2%

Gradually you pack the softness tight till it bearsnot if you stand up on your feet, but bears the length of your body, while you worm your way obliquely to the top, and feel gingerly in the dimness after your snow-shoes.

from Occurrences 2%

The grounds which on the right aspire, In dimness from the view retire: The left presents a place of graves, Whose wall the silent water laves.

about Occurrences 1%

Simply looked up to me with a smile, and a certain dimness about the eyeswell, my breath stopped.

with Occurrences 1%

always holding fast by the little Pilgrim, always gazing round her, groping as it were in the dimness with her great eyes.

above Occurrences 1%

Now presently as they fought thus, because the breach was grown very slippery, Beltane tripped and fell, but in that instant two lusty mailed legs bestrode him, and from the dimness above Roger's voice hailed: "Get thee back, masterI pray thee get back and take thy rest awhile, my arm is fresh and my steel scarce blooded, so get thee to thy rest moreover thou art a notch, lordanother accursed notch from my belt!"

at Occurrences 1%

Two huge, inhumanly human, eyes are looking through the dimness at me.

for Occurrences 1%

Worse than the ice and the wet in the sleeping-bag, was this lying in such close proximity to a young jackanapes who wouldn't come when you called "Grub!" and wouldn't wait a second till you'd felt about in the dimness for your gun.

out Occurrences 1%

There was a great smear of blood across his brow, the track of a bloody hand as it had sought to wipe a gathering dimness out of his eyes.

than Occurrences 1%

Its grandeur was more impressive in the dimness than in the glare.

Which preposition to use with  dimness