Which preposition to use with meteors

of Occurrences 17%

See on p. 147, for whatever it may be worth in illustration, the line relating to Coleridge: 'A cloud-encircled meteor of the air.' 1. 5.

in Occurrences 8%

The sight of the revered seer, with a heard which "streamed like a meteor in the air," terrified the future hero, who dreaded a whipping from so grave a personage.

through Occurrences 4%

Journeying on high, the silken castle glides Bright as a meteor through the azure tides; O'er towns and towers and temples wins its way, 30 Or mounts sublime, and gilds the vault of day.

to Occurrences 3%

Behold, in peace, all nations here unite, Their various pennons streaming to the sight: The red cross glows, the Danish crown appears, The half-moon rises, and the lion rears, But mark, bold-towering o'er the conscious wave, The starry banners of my country brave, Stream like a meteor to the wooing breeze, And float all-radiant o'er the sunny seas!

on Occurrences 3%

Conceive each of the six as having been dammed by a hurricane and sired by an earthquake, and as being related to an active volcano on one side of the family and to a flaming meteor on the other.

from Occurrences 3%

Each one of those foul-mouthed, mangy dogs Governs a day (no dog but hath his day): And all the days by them so governed The dog-days hight; infectious fosterers Of meteors from carrion that arise, And putrified bodies of dead men, Are they engender'd to that ugly shape, Being nought else but [ill-]preserv'd corruption.

across Occurrences 2%

He shot like a meteor across the sky of ancient civilization.

with Occurrences 2%

This time, as the itinerant most solemnly declared, the meeting-house was not only seen all alight, but a bell was ringing as a signal somewhere off across the darkness of the water, where, as he protested, there suddenly appeared a red star, that, blazing like a meteor with a surpassing brightness for a few seconds, was presently swallowed up into inky darkness again.

by Occurrences 1%

We know our humanity by its often intercepted rays, as we tell a revolving light from a star or meteor by its constantly recurring obscuration.

at Occurrences 1%

At the same moment I perceived the yawning abyss of hell like a fiery meteor at the feet of Caiphas; it was filled with horrible devils; a slight gauze alone appeared to separate him from its dark flames.

against Occurrences 1%

He was so much excited that his tail became red-hot, and glowed like a meteor against the evening sky.

on Occurrences 1%

''The Meteors on Nov. 14th were well observed.

in Occurrences 1%

Also Inference from the observed Movement of the Meteors in the appearance of 1866, Nov. 13-14.

into Occurrences 1%

"I had not talked with him ten minutes before I felt as I do when the scene changes suddenly in one of Shakespeare's plays,as if I had been flung like a meteor into a new world.

Which preposition to use with  meteors