Which preposition to use with reveries

of Occurrences 55%

The past came vividly back to me, and I stood there for a while indulging in a reverie of old days.

in Occurrences 18%

A consciousness of sinful blame is evident amid them; and though the fantasies that loom through the mystery, are not so hideous as the guilty reveries in the weird caldron of Manfred's conscience, still they have an awful resemblance to them.

by Occurrences 9%

We feel unwilling to invade the repose of that majestic reverie by vulgar invocation.

about Occurrences 8%

Did not rise till past nine; from that time till eleven, did little more than indulge in idle reveries about balloons.'

into Occurrences 6%

This cessation of activity aroused the solitary pedestrian from the reverie into which he had elapsed, and, emerging from the shed, with an apparently new intention, he walked up the path to the house-door.

with Occurrences 5%

"Did ye say, my boy, that they were all killed?" inquired Mrs. Varley, awaking from her reverie with a deep sigh.

for Occurrences 3%

I studied it in a profound reverie for the best part of two dry Martinis and a dividend.

from Occurrences 3%

" Mr. Hardy said, "Oh, indeed," and fell straight-way into a dismal reverie from which the most spirited efforts of his host only partially aroused him.

at Occurrences 2%

"Why, Jack," cried Gilbert, starting up from his reverie at the entrance of his friend, and greeting him with a hearty handshaking, "this is an agreeable surprise!

before Occurrences 2%

At times he did not hear Marianne when she spoke to him; he lapsed into reverie before some uncultivated tract, some copse overrun with brushwood, some spring which suddenly bubbled up and was then lost in mire.

as Occurrences 2%

p. 315. "Can he be a sane man who records the subsequent reverie as matter of fact?

over Occurrences 2%

Now and then a word or two reached Irechester's ears, old Naylor seemed to have fallen into a reverie over his cigar, and it must be confessed that he took no pains not to overhear.

than Occurrences 2%

Many were fain to hope he might have learned to smoke during the summer, an accomplishment which would probably have moderated his energy not a little, and disposed him rather to reverie than to action.

to Occurrences 2%

I started, and in one instant had surged up from all that depth of reverie to reality: I glanced to the right: and there, at last, my God, I saw something human which moved, rapidly moved: at last!and it came to me.

of Occurrences 1%

Fancy such savages writing or reading a book like The Reveries of a Bachelor and you will understand why stupidity is an obstacle to love, and realize the unspeakable folly of the notion that love is always and everywhere the same.

like Occurrences 1%

In the midst of reveries like these, now agitated with apprehension, and now soothed with pleasure, Delia passed the night.

through Occurrences 1%

But still, in the warm morning sunshine upon the piazza, I felt his placid presence, and as I crawled into his great chair, and drifted on in reverie through the still, tropical day, it was as if his soft, dreamy eye had passed into my soul.

under Occurrences 1%

The dreamy Oriental is sunk into deeper reverie under the influence of tobacco, and his happiness while smoking seems to consist in thinking of nothing.

Which preposition to use with  reveries