Which preposition to use with numbing

with Occurrences 29%

My brain seems numbed with the sheer horror of this new fear.

to Occurrences 4%

But Sofia's leaden limbs carried her safely to the upper landing, then on to the blessed shelter of her room, where she collapsed upon a chaise-longue and there lay in a stirless huddle, dry of eye but deaf to the plaintive entreaties of Chou Nu and numb to all sensation but the anguish of her humiliated heart.

in Occurrences 4%

Moreover he must grip the branch on which he sits more or less firmly with his claws, to keep from falling; and the tense muscles, which flex the long claws to drive them into the wood, soon grow weary and numb in the bitter frost.

as Occurrences 4%

He drove mechanically, becoming almost numb as the wind, unimpeded now, struck him squarely.

by Occurrences 3%

Numbed by the inevitable, they made no effort, save Milo, who at imminent risk of his own life, was climbing on a frame near at hand; but Pony flew at Himes, beating the old man with hard-clenched, inadequate fists, and screaming.

from Occurrences 2%

Red Perris also was in the last stage of exhaustionone true pitch would have hurled him limp from his seatyet, with his body numb from head to toe, he managed to keep his place by using that last and greatest strength of feeble manpower of will.

of Occurrences 1%

The intensity of her disappointment, the utter loneliness and helplessness of her position had caused a veritable numbing of her faculties and of her spirit and for the moment she was perhaps primarily conscious of a sense of relief at her dismissal.

at Occurrences 1%

And the freezing manner of Zara was caused no longer by haughty self-defense but because she was unconsciously numb at heart.

into Occurrences 1%

Meadow-larks and song-sparrows kept up a faint warbling about us, but the crickets, which yesterday had here and there made a thin music, as of straggling bands of survivors of the Summer, were numbed into silence again.

of Occurrences 1%

Distance was indeed a form of death under such conditionsno wonder men made their wills as they set out on a journeyand when actual physical death did not intervene, how much of that slow death-in-life, that fading of the memory and that numbing of the affections which absence too often brings, was even still more to be feared.

within Occurrences 1%

Gurth's cheek was pale, his eye wide and vacant, and his soul sat numbed within him.

Which preposition to use with  numbing