Which preposition to use with rippling

of Occurrences 213%

In March, the vegetation was more than doubled in depth and color; claytonia, calandrinia, a large white gilia, and two nemophilas were in bloom, together with a host of yellow composite, tall enough now to bend in the wind and show wavering ripples of shade.

on Occurrences 63%

I found no great difficulty, however, in making my way to a certain ripple on the river where one of my ouzels lived.

in Occurrences 44%

Her loose hair rippled in billows of gold about her shoulders and she sat down on the sledge, close to Kazan, and began brushing it.

of Occurrences 24%

And in a while, behold a glow that grew ever brighter, until, of a sudden, a man appeared bearing a flaming pine-torch, that showed a wide cave whose rugged roof and walls glistened here and there, and whose rocky floor ended abruptly in a yawning gulf from whose black depths came soft murmurs and ripplings of water far below.

over Occurrences 24%

The sunshine rippled over her face again and she counted the words on her slate for the second time to assure herself that there could be no possible mistake.

with Occurrences 15%

Many of them either ripple with the laughter of his characters or are lighted with their smiles.

from Occurrences 14%

Once more the laugh rippled from the full pulsing throat.

at Occurrences 13%

Then a man dipped the paddle, and the ripple at the bow got longer and broke the reflections of the pines.

through Occurrences 13%

The deer love to lie down beneath its spreading branches; bright streams from the snow that is always near ripple through its groves, and bryanthus spreads precious carpets in its shade.

to Occurrences 9%

"There's a lot of things I wish around here," she said, without a ripple to her lips.

under Occurrences 8%

His voice had coarsened and taken on a raw edge, but every gesture was flung from the socket, and from where they had forced themselves into the tight circle Gertie Slayback, her mouth fallen open and her head still back, could see the sinews of him ripple under khaki and the diaphragm lift for voice.

along Occurrences 6%

It falls into a smooth, glassy sleep, stirred only by the night-wind, which, coming down the cañon, makes it croon and mutter in ripples along its broidered shores.

like Occurrences 6%

" They kept step across the corral, gay, light-hearted sons of the frontier, both hard as nails, packed muscles rippling like those of forest panthers.

into Occurrences 5%

Cissie rippled into a boarding-school laugh.

in Occurrences 5%

In the calmest days the rippling in the flow of the Bosphorus is like the running of a river.

around Occurrences 4%

Her dark eyes fairly danced, and the profuse black curls which rippled around her face, were never still for a moment.

against Occurrences 4%

She floated with me close alongside, guided me to a restful grove midst shimmering weeds that made a soft and silken couch, where in the sweet stillness, lulled by the lap of gentle ripples against weed, or shell, or bending sea-flowers, I glided off to dreamless slumber.

across Occurrences 4%

" Watching the barge pass out of sight beneath the overhanging trees, David turned to see a small dark object, leading two long verging lines of silvery ripples across the glittering current.

about Occurrences 3%

When the flood tide rippled about the wreck it was obvious the pump was getting the water down.

among Occurrences 3%

The path wound round a densely wooded and sombre hollow, the depths of which the eye could not penetrate, but from out of which came the song of a stream that went cascading down the rocks, and rippling among the loose boulders that lay in its course.

past Occurrences 3%

The mere tug of the tiller beneath my hand filled me with a kind of fierce delight, while the splash of the water as it rippled past the sides of the boat seemed to me the bravest and sweetest music I had ever heard.

before Occurrences 2%

The tall oats rippled before the wind and soft shadows trailed across the hillside.

round Occurrences 2%

" Since it was too late to refuse, Grace took his hand and he waded across, steadying her, while the current rippled round his legs.

by Occurrences 1%

"God's will be done," murmured the unhappy woman as she clasped her hands, and taking her station at the gangway, she continued gazing on the water as it rippled by, in a state of unconsciousness to every passing object.

behind Occurrences 1%

Another ripple had gone down to the sea of darkness, yet all the ripples behind it chased on their way heedlessly and babbled neither louder nor softer.

Which preposition to use with  rippling