Which preposition to use with illumination

of Occurrences 118%

" In the smoky illumination of the two ill-cleaned lamps which stood one at each end of the table, Johnnie's fair face shone out like a star.

from Occurrences 24%

The second supposes the soul after the manner of a mirror to receive some secondary illumination from the presence of God and other spirits.

in Occurrences 21%

Hence our British illuminations in November had probably their origin.

on Occurrences 9%

As I did so a brilliant light seemed to fill the valley, throwing an illumination on the man at my feet.

to Occurrences 6%

Below, at the foot of the hill, the headlights of another car, standing at some distance and to the right of the road, furnished lurid illumination to the theatre of disaster.

as Occurrences 5%

What illuminations as to Florentine character!

at Occurrences 5%

Here is kept the sacred image, which has survived so many chances and changes; which, hidden for a hundred and fifty years in a cavern on the mountainside, made itself known at last by a miraculous illumination at night, and for the further guidance of the faithful gave forth a sweet scent.

over Occurrences 4%

To know exactly what has been drawn from them is erudition and heightens our own influence, which seems advantageous to mankind; whereas to cite an author whose ideas may pass as higher currency under our own signature can have no object except the contradictory one of throwing the illumination over his figure when it is important to be seen oneself.

through Occurrences 3%

To quote again from the soldier who achieved illumination through the recent war, "My friends, there is no protection of rights in heaven.

with Occurrences 3%

The three watched the illumination with absorbing interest for a moment.

into Occurrences 2%

I stirred up the fire, casting a strong illumination into the darkest corners; I thrust my hand into the very heart of the sound, I struck through it in all directions with a stick,still I saw nothing, touched nothing.

by Occurrences 2%

I have seen no other dome in Europe that resembles so closely the dome on the Capitol of the United States, both on account of its fine illumination by natural light, and in its general design.

than Occurrences 2%

So far the room had had no other illumination than such as came from the fire, and when he had set this lantern down on the mantel and turned to face me, I perceived, with a sort of sluggish hope, that he was Dr. Perry, once a practising physician and my father's intimate friend, now a county official of no ordinary intelligence and, what was better, of no ordinary feeling.

without Occurrences 1%

To show the illuminations without to more advantage, the company were received in an apartment totally dark, where they remained for two hours.

after Occurrences 1%

Even in the small old baths of Pompeii there were found about a thousand lamps, obviously used for illumination after dark.

against Occurrences 1%

From those waves, red light reflected as the sun sank, illuminated the Frenchman's lean, brown features and flung up wavering patches of illumination against the pilot-house ceiling of burnished metal, through the tilted windows that sheerly overhung the water.

along Occurrences 1%

Every night there are illuminations along the water, which, added to the crowns of light sparkling on the hundred minarets and domes, give a magical effect to the night view of the city.

beyond Occurrences 1%

Strange retrogression in the professors of an expanded religion, boasting an illumination beyond the spiritual doctrine of Hebrew prophets!

down Occurrences 1%

Jorian and Boris did the same at the other entrances, and before the former went to sleep he arranged a tall candle that had been placed unlighted before a little shrine of the Virgin (for, in name at least, the folk were not wholly pagan) and lighted it, so that it shed a faint illumination down the long passage in which we were bestowed, and on the inner door of the ladies' apartment.

during Occurrences 1%

Civil marriage, he said, was a foreign institution, an imitation of French legislation; it would simply serve to undermine the belief in Christianity among the people, "and" he said, "I have seen many friends of the illumination during the last year or two come to recognise that a certain degree of positive Christianity is necessary for the common man, if he is not to become dangerous to human society."

for Occurrences 1%

"Is the illumination for Thanksgiving, I wonder?

out Occurrences 1%

There is no question but that this is the plan to get good illumination out of gas combustion; and many regenerative burners are now in the market, all depending on this principle, and utilizing the waste heat to make a high temperature flame.

therefrom Occurrences 1%

May our time not be likened to the Oriental traveler, who, appreciating the convenience and force of electricity as seen in a room he occupied, fitted his palace, on his return, with a set of elaborate fixtures and was surprised to find no illumination therefrom!

across Occurrences 1%

A lamp from the opposite side of the street threw a broad illumination across the walk where I stood, but the gate-posts behind threw a shadow.

Which preposition to use with  illumination