Which preposition to use with fog

of Occurrences 82%

He liked the unexpected, the veiled and somewhat more hypocritical atmosphere, and in the fogs of London, he had said, were more romantic mysteries than in any other city.

in Occurrences 36%

I ran through the fog in the direction the others had disappeared, and had taken scarcely three steps when I collided against the form of a man, whose presence was not even noticed until we came together.

on Occurrences 19%

The men looked like shadows moving about in a cold fog on a frosty, cold, wintry morning.

at Occurrences 10%

Stop for smoke, eh?v'là! good place for camp away there, kitchee hogeemaus endaut, big chief's house may-be!" grinned he, as he indicated with Indian instinct and a wavering finger a structure of some kind that peered through the fog at a short distance on our left.

with Occurrences 8%

So wonderfully eloquent was he, that whatever he might choose to say, his auditors had no choice but to believe him; wrong looked like right, and right like wrong; for when it pleased him, he could make a kind of illuminated fog with his mere breath, and obscure the natural daylight with it.

from Occurrences 6%

A day threatened with fog from East River had slipped, without the interim of dusk, into a heavy evening.

as Occurrences 6%

The several editors seemed to differ widely in their opinions relating to the whole affair; but there must have been some twist in the mind of the one who excused everybody on the ground that "no pilot, however skilful, could work his compass correctly in so dense a fog as that.

over Occurrences 5%

There were thenceforth meetings every evening between the twomeetings which were sometimes far extended into the night; and the outcome of it all was that one morning, just as the sunbeams came thrusting the white fog over blue Lake Michigan, Simpson sought his own room somewhat weary-eyed, but with a countenance which was simply beatific in expression.

to Occurrences 5%

No jackal was ever more faithful to his lion, no pilot-fish to his shark, than the fog to its berg.

about Occurrences 4%

There was nothing left to fight for, to struggle after; the fog about me became red and purple before my straining eyes, and then slowly grew black; my muscles refused to respond to my will; I no longer swam, but floated so low in water the crest of the waves swept over my face.

for Occurrences 4%

There had been a thick fog for several days and not much firing.

into Occurrences 4%

Floating through the fog into his open window came the noises of the village as it set about living another day, precisely as it had lived innumerable days in the past.

like Occurrences 4%

The alarm spread along the line, and the mayáks soon began to glimmer through the fog like the stars of morning, while the call to arms resounded in every direction.

without Occurrences 3%

" I had glimpse of the thick fog without as he pushed through the door, and of a scarcely distinguishable group of men on the deck.

under Occurrences 2%

" Like a fog under a wind, the mist swept from the eyes of Anthony; he looked out and saw that the face of the grey man was infinitely sad, and there was a hungry tenderness that reached out, enveloped, weakened him.

through Occurrences 2%

When Beatrice returned to the room Wonder was sleeping peacefully again, but at the chill hour when watchers blow out the night-lights, and a dreary greyness comes like a fog through the curtains, Antony and Beatrice fell into each other's arms in anguish, for Wonder was dead.

beneath Occurrences 2%

"Just to think how utterly unconscious those fellows were of the fact that three human beings were hovering right above them and listening to every word of their conversation," chuckled Jimsy; "isn't it queer?" A little while later a steamer's whistle boomed through the fog beneath them, but as the altitude register showed five hundred feet, they did not bother about it.

around Occurrences 1%

But our scepticism is not an open negation; it is rather a sorrowful, anxious suspicion that perhaps there is nothing,a dense fog around our minds that stifles the breath and hides from us the light.

outside Occurrences 1%

She was free to do this because Miss Heydinger was standing, lost in thought, staring at the December fog outside the laboratory windows.

below Occurrences 1%

There was a heavy fog below us, so I took a couple of turns to make sure we could see our objective.

than Occurrences 1%

Does he propose that we advise Mr. Marchmont to enter a caveat?" "I've read all the documents and boiled all the evidence down to a stiff jelly; and I am in a worse fog than ever.

against Occurrences 1%

Her smock, embroidered with silk, was new, and looked whiter than fog against her bare brown arms and face.

by Occurrences 1%

The workmen, busily engaged in laying the Federal pontoons, were so much interrupted by the fire of the Confederate marksmenwho directed their aim through the heavy fog by the noise made in putting together the boatsthat, after losing a number of men, the Federal commander discontinued his attempt.

up Occurrences 1%

"Oh, I had no idea of walking in fog up to my chin," said Mrs. Purcell; "so I took the short cut.

along Occurrences 1%

To be sure they had, for he had come on board in the usual way, as they drew near their intended port; but they had somehow seemed to bring that fog along with them, and the captain had a half-defined suspicion that neither the pilot nor he himself knew exactly where they now were.

Which preposition to use with  fog