Which preposition to use with looms

in Occurrences 82%

After the toil-worn adventurers had escaped a thousand dangers and had crawled thousands of miles across the plains the snowy Sierra at last loomed in sight, the eastern wall of the land of gold.

of Occurrences 75%

As a mighty sleigh in the loom of time it seemedin a sudden fancy of mineto be beating home the picks of the years.

above Occurrences 26%

He loomed above them, white and shaking.

through Occurrences 23%

Through the gloom concealing the deck, I could perceive only dim figures, a riot of men, battling furiously hand to hand, yet out of the ruck loomed through the darkness in larger outline than the others-Cochose, the negro.

before Occurrences 18%

Besides the interest and fatigues of the exposition and the constant receiving and official festivities of all kinds, a great event was looming before usthe Berlin Congress.

like Occurrences 17%

Most of the plants crumble to dust beneath the foot, and the ground is full of cracks; while the thirsty traveler gazes with eager longing through the burning glare to the snowy summits looming like hazy clouds in the distance.

on Occurrences 15%

There was not a man who did not realize that a great European War loomed on the horizon.

over Occurrences 14%

For the moment there was a little lull in the firing, but we felt that some big fate was looming over us.

for Occurrences 10%

And, in that day thou shalt behold all things with new eyes: and in that day shalt thou sigh, and long, and yearn with all thy soul for these woeful hours wherein Self looms for thee so large thou art blind to aught else.

out Occurrences 9%

They were almost upon it before she saw a log cabin looming out of the darkness.

from Occurrences 8%

He looks to the beacon that looms from the reef, To the rock that is under his lee, As he drifts on the blast, like a wind-wafted leaf, O'er the gulfs of the desolate sea.

with Occurrences 6%

The probability looms with almost the certainty of a syllogistic deduction, that such will be the outcome to our hundreds of thousands of years of pain upon earth.

to Occurrences 5%

Her mind was disordered; a life spent with her soul mate loomed to her so large and dazzling that all other things were as nothing.

at Occurrences 5%

He looms at you with a dull, stony, preoccupied gaze, as though his thoughts were a thousand miles away in the unknown land; while once in every quarter of an hour or so he woke up to a momentary consciousness that he was a thing neither rich nor rare, and so wondered how in thunder he got there.

into Occurrences 4%

If your dearest hopes seem blighted and despair looms into view, Set your jaw and whisper grimly, "Though they're false, yet I'll be true.

across Occurrences 3%

Here is a man who was certainly not the greatest writer of his age, perhaps not even a great writer at all, but who was nevertheless the dictator of English letters, and who still looms across the centuries of a magnificent literature as its most striking and original figure.

against Occurrences 3%

Eastward, looming against the dark sky, I could faintly trace the black towers of Notre Dame, The rushing of the swift waters below mingled with the rattling of a thousand carts and carriages, and the confusion of a thousand voices, till it seemed like some grand nightly festival.

as Occurrences 3%

Science as King, science as power, looms as the great new figure, the overshadowing novel factor, in practical statesmanship.

among Occurrences 3%

After a time, the ground got steeper, and when they crossed the noisy beck and scrambled up a shaly bank, Kit was glad to see a broken wall loom among the tossing flakes.

unto Occurrences 1%

and yet you Would join this loom unto unlawful twists.

down Occurrences 1%

As Nissr, now with slowed engines loomed down the Valley of Sacrifice, a perfectly indescribable hurricane of panic, rage, and hate surged through all the massed thousands who had come from the farthest ends of Islam to do homage to the holy places of the Prophet.

about Occurrences 1%

He loomed about the place, a big, stoop-shouldered, gaunt man, with tragic gray face and melancholy eyes and deepening wrinkles.

by Occurrences 1%

FUGGER, the name of a family of Augsburg who rose from the loom by way of commerce to great wealth and eminence in Germany, particularly under the Emperors Maximilian and Charles V., the real founder of the wealth being Jacob, who died 1409.

behind Occurrences 1%

A minute later a dim loom behind them, and the glimmer of two yellow lights, was all that they could see of the St. Christophe.

near Occurrences 1%

And now the club house loomed near once more.

Which preposition to use with  looms