Which preposition to use with mist

of Occurrences 386%

The room was filled, now, with a soft, yet luminous, white twilight, like a gentle mist of light.

in Occurrences 44%

The men were of the same light colour and slimness as those I had seen on the edge of the mist in Clearwater Glen.

before Occurrences 42%

All their plottings, their threats, their dangerousness dissipated like mist before the command of this one resolute man.

from Occurrences 32%

Now presently, Beltane was aware that his bonds cramped him no longer, found Roger's arm about him, and at his parched lips Roger's steel head-piece brimming with cool, sweet water; and gulping thirstily, soon felt the numbness lifted from his brain and the mist from his eyes; in so much that he sat up, and gazing about, beheld himself alone with Roger.

on Occurrences 24%

He did not seem to notice her; beneath heavy lids his quick glances shot this way and that to where wisps of mist on the surface of the sea partly obscured the outlook.

at Occurrences 18%

By that time Jeremy was dressed in Feisul's clothes; and though he didn't look a bit like Feisul from a yard away, in the mist at ten yards, provided you were looking for Feisul, you'd have taken your Bible oath he was the man; for he had the gesture and mannerism copied to perfection.

with Occurrences 16%

The great blue roll of mountain we had left was lit below the mist with a glory of emerald and gold.

over Occurrences 15%

The unshaven beardit was the middle of morningwas a reddish mist over his face.

about Occurrences 11%

I put its edge to the tense leather; it ran before it; and then!one sudden jerk of that enormous head, a sort of dirty mist about his mouth, no noise, and the bright and fierce little fellow is dropped, limp and dead.

into Occurrences 11%

But upon a morning, ere the sun had chased the rosy mists into marsh and fen, Beltane strode forth from the cave wherein he slept, and lifting the hunting horn he bare about his neck, sounded it fierce and shrill.

around Occurrences 9%

But I soon observed, to my inexpressible concern, that while Gratitude and Admiration were busy in exciting the various ranks of the vast assembly, to accomplish this favourite design, they were followed by two earthy fiends of a dark and malignant influence: these were Detraction and Indifference, who shed such a chill and depressive mist around them, that all the ardour of the Assembly seemed to sink.

like Occurrences 8%

The fog was thicker near the water's edge, and Angela's figure loomed through the mist like that of a wraith, but we still heard her piteous cry: "JimJim!"

to Occurrences 7%

And all welcomed the order to fall in preparatory to moving off in the darkness and mist to a battle which, perhaps more than any other in this war, stirred the emotions of countless millions in the Old and New Worlds.

along Occurrences 6%

Sentences: After the of the attack the mists along the lowlands were .

for Occurrences 5%

He carefully gets the meadow hay and the more nutritious grasses which grow next to that, but he leaves this fine purple mist for the walker's harvest,fodder for his fancy stock.

across Occurrences 4%

" Bewilderment spread like a gray mist across the painty features of the Mordaunt Estate.

through Occurrences 4%

" Jack's prediction proved no idle one, for in less than the time specified they found themselves suddenly enveloped by a dense mantle of mist through which it would have been utterly impossible to have seen anything a hundred feet away.

as Occurrences 4%

To the south, distant objects are obscured by high hills, but in the south-west are very distant mountains, under them appears a mist as tho' rising from a river.

by Occurrences 4%

Was it the worke of Nature or of Art, Which tempred so the feature of her face, That pride and meeknesse, mist by equall part, Doe both appeare t'adorne her beauties grace?

above Occurrences 3%

In the mist above the pool at the foot of the cascade a double rainbow gleamed brilliantly.

beyond Occurrences 3%

It was a bleak dawn, full of a thick, low-lying mist beyond the walls, but within this mist, to north and south and east and west, was a faint stir, while, ever and anon, rose the distant cry of some sentinel within Duke Ivo's sleeping camp, a mighty camp whose unseen powers held the fair city in deadly grip.

than Occurrences 3%

"I make her out a ship close-hauled; but, for an hour past, she has looked more like mist than a vessel.

among Occurrences 2%

And thou, dense air, weighed with my sighs so chill, That hidest heaven's own light thick mists among, Give back those sighs to my sad heart, nor wrong

toward Occurrences 2%

The wild black peaks of the Black Forest were spread below us, and the sun sank through golden mist toward the Alsatian hills.

out Occurrences 2%

Throwing back his weight against the reins, he brought the stallion to a plunging, snorting, wheeling halt in the midst of men and womena terrifying monster blowing clouds of mist out of his nostrils!

Which preposition to use with  mist