Which preposition to use with dormant

in Occurrences 39%

But I had forgotten what old hunters had told me, that the hills will bring out a fever which is dormant in the plains.

for Occurrences 8%

Then, after their birth, the planets were dormant for what may have been many millions of years while they were going through the cooling process.

within Occurrences 4%

At last, in the unexpected entrance of the innocent Tom Simson and the guileless Piney Woods, the outcasts find a common challenge to the native goodness that had long lain dormant within them.

under Occurrences 3%

In all four, however, and most decidedly in music unaccompanied by words, the appeal is frequently made almost exclusively to the æsthetic sense, the mind or intellect remaining almost dormant under the impression.

as Occurrences 3%

She grew rapidly in intellectual agility and keenness, not at all in philosophical grasp, and emotionally remained as dormant as a potato in a cellar.

beneath Occurrences 1%

In him, in his mood, in his words, in his manner, was something that called out in direct appeal the more primitive instincts hitherto dormant beneath her sense of maidenhood, so that even at this vexed moment of conscious opposition, her heart was ranging itself on his side.

at Occurrences 1%

The twins who closely resembled each other in childhood and early youth, and were reared under not very dissimilar conditions, either grow unlike through the development of natural characteristics which had lain dormant at first, or else they continue their lives, keeping time like two watches, hardly to be thrown out of accord except by some physical jar.

by Occurrences 1%

"The intellectual powers were made dormant by devoting a greater part of the time to the study of Latin, to which they attached an extraordinary importance, for the purpose of discouraging pupils from studying the exact and experimental sciences and from gaining a knowledge of true literary studies.

through Occurrences 1%

The seed committed to its trust Will not decay, and sink to dust, It will not with the summer die, And dormant through the winter lie; But ever fruitful, it will be, Even through eternity.

to Occurrences 1%

"Style," says De Quincey, "has two separate functions-first, to brighten the INTELLIGIBILITY of a subject which is obscure to the understanding; secondly, to regenerate the normal POWER and impressiveness of a subject which has become dormant to the sensibilities. . .

like Occurrences 1%

Brain, without them in solution, without enough of them in that wonderful solution, the blood, sleeps or remains dormant like the butterfly in the cocoon.

during Occurrences 1%

A train of old associations, dormant during five years, had thus been instantaneously awakened in his mind.

Which preposition to use with  dormant