Which preposition to use with insignificances

of Occurrences 42%

It was the comparative insignificance of ourselves and our world, when placed in comparison of the mighty whole of which man is an atom, that first led me to imagine that our pretensions to eternity might be overrated.

before Occurrences 10%

The people of the two vessels stood aghast with this sad picture of their own insignificance before their eyes.

in Occurrences 9%

He only goes there to hide his insignificance in a larger crowd.

beside Occurrences 5%

The ordinary courts fell into insignificance beside those summoned by the king's judges, thronged as they were with the crowd of rich and poor, trembling at the penalty of a ruinous fine for non-attendance or full of a newly-kindled hope of justice.

as Occurrences 4%

Beneath the blasts of a trade depression, or some other tendency of world-wide scope, the authority of the mightiest industrial magnate, and equally of any Government, assumes the same essential insignificance as the pride of a man humbled by contact with the elemental powers of nature.

into Occurrences 4%

He was the last of those haughty prelates in the good old Catholic times who rose up from the dust of insignificance into the most lordly and overgrown magnificence; outdoing monarchs in the number of their servants, and in the pomp of their state.

by Occurrences 3%

Dwarfed to ant-like insignificance by the verdant immensity around him, the logger toils daily with ax, saw and cable.

for Occurrences 3%

But it goes on its way immovable, grinding the poor, enslaving the slave, admiring hideousness, adulating vulgarity for its wealth and insignificance for its pedigree.

on Occurrences 2%

I fear we shall have to admit our insignificance on this point.

under Occurrences 1%

It was not in the least what he had meant to do with the fugitive flash of consciousness he called self; but all that he had purposed for that transitory being sank into insignificance under the pressure of Undine's claims.

than Occurrences 1%

He that sits still, or reposes himself upon a couch, no more deceives himself than he deceives others; he knows that he is doing nothing, and has no other solace of his insignificance than the resolution, which the lazy hourly make, of changing his mode of life.

with Occurrences 1%

Strong royalists, the fortunes of the family waned along with King Charles, and sank into insignificance with the passing of the Stuart dynasty.

to Occurrences 1%

And ceaselessly the engine-room telegraph tinkled, and the handy little craft, with death and terror written in her workmanlike lines for the seaman, for all her slim insignificance to the landlubber on the towering decks of the great liner, swung smartly through the crowded water-way out to the perils lurking 'neath the seeming smile of the open sea: the guardian angel of our commerce it went, to meetwhat Heaven alone could foretell!

Which preposition to use with  insignificances