Which preposition to use with oasis

of Occurrences 88%

Here and there in the residential road are little oases of shops, patronised by the neighbourhood, and some of the children may live over these.

in Occurrences 58%

"Seems as though we had come upon an oasis in this desert of stone," muttered Tonnison, as he gazed interestedly.

on Occurrences 6%

Some day the world will understand that, and the little oases on the windy tops of hills will harbor for healing its ailing, house-weary broods.

to Occurrences 3%

Some of them dwell in villages, and some wander from oasis to oasis.

with Occurrences 2%

The cars of this beneficent institutionsurvivors of a Europe that once seemed divided between tourists and hotel-keepersoutdash the most dashing war correspondents, insinuate themselves wherever civilians are found at all, and once aboard you carry your oasis with you as you do in a Pullman through our own alkali and sage-brush.

amid Occurrences 2%

They were walking together in a secluded lane that led from behind the Farm Hospital barns to a little patch of woodland through which a clear stream sparkled, a silent, intimate, leafy oasis amid an army-ridden desert, where there was only a cow to stare at them, knee deep in young mint, only a shy cardinal bird to interrupt them with its exquisite litany.

among Occurrences 2%

It was Drayton who said of Marlowe, that he "had in him those brave translunary things that the first poets had;" and there are brave things in Drayton, but they are only occasional passages, oases among dreary wastes of sand.

from Occurrences 1%

The place was a curious little oasis from the noonday heat.

for Occurrences 1%

but we mean at least to make it an oasis for our friends who are weary of the whirling of the pool.

as Occurrences 1%

The date-harvest is expected with as much anxiety by the Arab in the oasis as the gathering in of the wheat and corn in temperate regions.

through Occurrences 1%

The bottom is a bright green oasis through which flows the rapid Majes River, too deep to be forded even in the dry season.

around Occurrences 1%

At midday we were refreshed by the sight of the little oasis around the military-post of Settat.

under Occurrences 1%

Sefrou is a military outpost in an oasis under the Atlas, about forty miles south of Fez.

after Occurrences 1%

It seemed like the good inn after the bleak high-road, the oasis after the sandstorm, shade after glare, the dressing after the wound, sleep after insomnia, surcease from unspeakable torture.

Which preposition to use with  oasis