Which preposition to use with pauses

for Occurrences 550%

At Sixth Avenue, where the great skeleton of the Elevated stalks mid-street, like a prehistoric pithecanthropus erectus, he paused for an instant in the shadow of a gigantic black pillar, readjusting the fragile burden to his pocket.

in Occurrences 534%

While he had the Decameron still in hand, he paused in that great work, with heart full of passionate longing for the lady of his love, far away in Naples, to pour out his very soul in La Fiammetta, the name by which he always called the Lady Maria.

at Occurrences 276%

I paused at the foot of the companion and looked back.

of Occurrences 188%

The colonel did not interrupt his brief pause of meditation.

before Occurrences 137%

" Again Gifford paused before replying.

with Occurrences 117%

He always filled up pauses with a laugh.

on Occurrences 114%

He pauses on the curb.

between Occurrences 40%

"How is it," she asked, after a little pause, "that there are more men in the lower classes whom one can call nice than among their betters?" Paul paused between two letters, hearing the question.

after Occurrences 39%

Nevertheless, he paused after a while, and laughed, with a tolerable affectation of mirth.

beside Occurrences 27%

So Beltane followed the white friar with the three upon his heels who wrangled now no more; and in a while the friar paused beside a new-digged grave.

from Occurrences 24%

And then they paused from this discourse, and the little Pilgrim looked round upon the beautiful houses and the fair gardens, and she said, "You live here?

as Occurrences 18%

There was a momentary pause as each man, hesitating between a direct falsehood, the truth, and a plausible excuse, rather waited for the other to speak.

by Occurrences 16%

The "Bomo" dance is followed with scarce a pause by the "Lewa," a kind of festal revel, in which the dancers move inwards and outwards as they circle round; and this in turn yields place to the "Bondogaya" and two religious figures, the "Damali" and "Chinughi," which are said when properly performed to give men the power of divination.

during Occurrences 16%

" "Watkins," I said soberly, after a pause during which he spat on the dirty deck to thus better express his feelings "do you mean to say that in three years you've had no chance to escape?

to Occurrences 12%

" Her hand went up, and without pausing to sight along the barrel, she fired; fire flew from the rock, and there appeared a white, small scar.

over Occurrences 11%

And then there came a pause over all the place, an awful stillness,hundreds of men and women standing clutching with desperate movements at their hearts as if to tear them out, moving their heads as if to dash them against the wall, wringing their hands, with a look upon all their convulsed faces which I can never forget.

under Occurrences 11%

"You need another umbrella," he said abruptly, putting down his own as he paused under the store porch where a boy stood at the curb with his car, hood on, prepared for a trip in to Watauga.

behind Occurrences 9%

She did not turn until a footstep paused behind her; she was so lost in dreams of Linnet and Morris that she had not noticed the brisk, hurried tread.

outside Occurrences 7%

" She sat up for some little time after her father had gone to bed, and as usual, she paused outside his door and listened.

like Occurrences 7%

A pause like that which accompanies self-contemplation, and perhaps conscious distrust of purpose, succeeded.

above Occurrences 5%

Like a water-color landscape-painter, he pauses above the box of crude materials which others have made, takes a dab here and a dab there with his brush, rarely takes all of one color, blends them, eyes the result judicially, and flashes in the combination with swiftness and certainty of touch.

among Occurrences 5%

For at least a decade he had been invaluable to Lichfield matrons alike against the entertainment of an "out-of-town girl," the management of a cotillion and the prevention of unpleasant pauses among incongruous dinner companies.

beneath Occurrences 5%

Now it fell out upon a day, that as Beltane strode the forest ways, there met him a fine cavalcade, gay with the stir of broidered petticoat and ermined mantle; and, pausing beneath a tree, he stood to hearken to the soft, sweet voices of the ladies and to gaze enraptured upon their varied beauty.

within Occurrences 5%

They paused within a short distance of him, and he could distinctly hear their conversation.

near Occurrences 4%

The new-comer paused near the platform on which the boaster stood and gazed at him in wonder.

Which preposition to use with  pauses