Which preposition to use with rift

in Occurrences 72%

The murky light was too dim for me to make out details; but after a moment a rift in the veil enabled me to identify Dr. Schermerhorn carrying, with great difficulty, the chest.

of Occurrences 31%

Like rifts of sunshine, her tresses Waved over her shoulders bare,

between Occurrences 8%

Wan starlight showed in the rifts between the clouds.

within Occurrences 7%

It is quite possible that the little rift within the lute, alluded to in the concluding paragraph of last chapter, may widen so far as to cause before long great internal changes and reconstructions in Germany herself; but short of that happening, it would seem that there is no alternative for the Allies but to continue the war until her Militarism can be put out of court, and that for long years to come.

through Occurrences 3%

There were clouds, but also there were wide rifts through which the stars blazed in all of that glorious crystalline beauty of the stars of the winter Sierra.

with Occurrences 3%

The real procession of the pines begins in the rifts with the long-leafed Pinus Jeffreyi, sighing its soul away upon the wind.

on Occurrences 2%

I could see down through the rifts on the plains of Brunswick, and sometimes, when they opened a little more, the mountains below us to the east and the adjoining plains, as far as Magdeburg.

into Occurrences 1%

These were the leaps of water from out dark rifts into the sun.

along Occurrences 1%

A fog rested over the lake, but we could soon see through the rifts along the lake shore the Indians on horseback coming out to attack us.

below Occurrences 1%

It happened, too, that some of the first batches of exiles were ordered into North Clare, to a district known as the Burren, whose peculiarity is that what little soil is to be found there has collected into rifts below the surface, or accumulated into pockets of earth at the feet of the hills, leaving the rest of the surface sheer rock, the very streams, whose edges would otherwise be green, being mostly carried underground.

above Occurrences 1%

It was of irregular outline, for the star-strewn sky showed in patches and rifts above it.

by Occurrences 1%

Or these: Peace lit upon a fluttering vein, And self-forgetting on the brain; On rifts by passion wrought again Splashed from the sky of childhood rain, And rid of afterthought were we And from foreboding sweetly free.

as Occurrences 1%

A little after two in the afternoon, Nissr passed within far sight of the Azores, visible in cloud-rifts as little black spots sown on the waters like sparse seeds on a burnished plate of metal.

Which preposition to use with  rift