Which preposition to use with outburst

of Occurrences 422%

The cañon wall rises sheer from the water's edge on the south, but on the opposite side there is sufficient space and sunshine for a sedgy daisy garden, the center of which is brilliantly lighted with lilies, castilleias, larkspurs, and columbines, sheltered from the wind by leafy willows, and forming a most joyful outburst of plant-life keenly emphasized by the chill baldness of the onlooking cliffs.

from Occurrences 12%

" This outburst from the witness-box created a sensation in court.

in Occurrences 10%

On a similar outburst in verse, the Rev. F. Hodgson comments with a sweet humanity, "The poor dear soul meant nothing of this."

on Occurrences 7%

It all ended with an outburst on her part.

with Occurrences 6%

" Crewe listened to this outburst with inward surprise but impassive features.

against Occurrences 5%

There was a violent outburst against England in all of the newspapers of Germany.

at Occurrences 5%

An anti-dynastic outburst at Changsha, Hunan, in 1910, was easily suppressed, and certainly gave no indication of what was so soon to take place.

over Occurrences 3%

For that reason players and owners must be guided by a sense of lofty ideals and not be led astray by foolish outbursts over trivial differences of opinion, easily to be adjusted by the exercise of a little common sense.

before Occurrences 2%

And they who had been of late so joyful, were now grown old with sorrow in but an hour or two; for they feared that the fresh coming of the Earth-Current had been but the final flicker and outburst before the end.

like Occurrences 2%

It must probably eschew all broad effects of humour; it must eschew narrative; it must be in its essence lyrical, an outburst like the song of the lark or the voice of the waterfall.

as Occurrences 1%

"Such an outburst as that, just because I told her, in the gentlest way possible, that she could not have a plaything!

near Occurrences 1%

It was evidently not a fire advancing regularly from the outer skirt of the wood, communicated to it from the Divide; it was a local outburst near its centre.

to Occurrences 1%

The half-insane ancient heard my outburst to the end, staring at me through the thick lenses of his glasses as if I was some new kind of a bug whose appearance he wished to implant firmly within his mind.

for Occurrences 1%

" It was then that the secretary had seen a Jack with his eyes moist; a Jack pasty-faced, hollow-cheeked; and, in what was a revolutionary outburst for a unit in the offices, Peter Mortimer had put his arm around the boy in a cry for the success of the Odyssey for health which the heir was about to begin.

Which preposition to use with  outburst