Which preposition to use with ray

of Occurrences 1410%

Great, gloomy caverns of places, unlit by any ray of daylight.

from Occurrences 70%

Thenwith a loom of unearthly glorythe first ray from the Green Star, struck over the edge of the dark sun, and lit the world.

in Occurrences 30%

Beyond this, there was no ray in all the vastitude of night that surrounded me; save that, far in the North, that soft, mistlike glow still shone.

on Occurrences 19%

He pointed to a tiny golden sun with radiating rays on the base of the pediment, just above the monogram.

through Occurrences 16%

Old Heck awakened the cowboys as the sun poured its first slanting rays through the open un-draped window.

into Occurrences 14%

As the day advanced, moreover, the sun, which had shone in the eyes of the confederates, gradually shot its rays into those of the Moslems.

At Occurrences 11%

Lykest it seemeth, in my simple wit, Unto the fayre sunshine in somers day, That, when a dreadfull storme away is flit, Thrugh the broad world doth spred his goodly ray At sight whereof, each bird that sits on spray.

to Occurrences 10%

He was in a chamber roughly square, a hollow within the rock part natural and part hewn by hand, a commodious chamber lighted by a jagged hole in the rock above, a fissure all o'er-grown with vines and creeping plants whose luxuriant foliage tempered the sun's rays to a tender green twilight very grateful and pleasant.

over Occurrences 9%

It was a glittering day in early August; a light shower the night before had washed the valley clean of dust, and now the hot harvest sun poured down his ripening rays over the pulsating earth.

for Occurrences 8%

Before doing so, we must look at the tip of each ray for a small reddish spot.

by Occurrences 8%

Natural objects, plants or animals, rocks and soil, are for the most part of dimmer, fainter, or darker tints than on Earth; probably owing to the much less intense light of the Sun; partly, perhaps, to that absorption of the blue rays by the atmosphere, which diminishes, I suppose, even that light which actually reaches the planet.

with Occurrences 7%

When I am buried, won't some one shut in one little sun-ray with me, that I may see to feel the gloom?

as Occurrences 6%

Henceforth, Antigua is the morning star of our nation, and though it glimmers faintly through a lurid sky, yet we hail it, and catch at every ray as the token of a bright sun which may yet burst gloriously upon us.

like Occurrences 5%

It gleams at morn, and when the night Mantles the world at length, It pours a ray like the light of day, When the sun is at its strength.

across Occurrences 5%

The rising sun behind the mountains threw long slant rays across into the bare tree tops, so that the shimmer of it dappled horse and man.

than Occurrences 4%

"Their object, I believe, is to ascertain whether the penetrability of organic substances by the X-rays becomes altered by age; whether, for instance, an ancient block of wood is more or less transparent to the rays than a new block of the same size.

about Occurrences 3%

But some remember well, That Martha Ray about this time Would up the mountain often climb.

around Occurrences 3%

She is kneeling with fiery rays around her, glorified by her assumption into heaven.

within Occurrences 3%

Proud, imperious, and aspiring, she denies that she worships the seraph, and declares that his immortality can bestow no love more pure and warm than her own, and she expresses a conviction that there is a ray within her "which, though forbidden yet to shine," is nevertheless lighted at the same ethereal fire as his own.

after Occurrences 2%

There he stood looking to the eastward, eager to have ray after ray shoot into the firmament, when he was suddenly struck with a change in that quarter of the ocean, which at once proclaimed the power of the effort which the earth had made in its subterranean throes.

under Occurrences 2%

There is a disc of cut glass in decorative designs covering 144 electric lights in the form of a star, which is twenty-one inches from point to point, the centre being of pure white light, and each ray under prisms which reflect the rainbow tints.

among Occurrences 2%

I need not say, that, in all my talk with these gentlemen, I had constantly tried to show that I could claim no influence in setting the sun's rays among the green carpeted leaves.

above Occurrences 2%

His intellect was just one ray above The idiot Cymon's ere he fell in love.

against Occurrences 2%

The first sunlight of the new day flashed its rays against the stained-glass windows, and the windows caught them and laid them in coverlets of blue and gold across the prostrate form of this humblest of earth's heroes.

outside Occurrences 2%

On the top we have the calculated intensities of the different rays outside our atmosphere.

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