Which preposition to use with semicircles

of Occurrences 52%

I insisted upon having a tea-table, which was a novelty in those days, but it broke the stiff semicircle of red and gold armchairs carefully arranged at one end of the room.

around Occurrences 7%

While Mooka scurried about, collecting birch bark and armfuls of dry branches, Noel took off his snow-shoes and began with one of them to shovel away the snow in a semicircle around the base of the stub.

round Occurrences 6%

They did not at first seem disposed to hold friendly intercourse with the trappers, but assembled in a semicircle round the camp in a menacing attitude, while one of their chiefs stepped forward to hold a palaver.

from Occurrences 6%

"About nine miles to the northward of Beïla a range of low hills sweeps in a semicircle from one side of the valley to the other, and forms its head.

with Occurrences 5%

The attack drops the point of his bayonet quickly until clear of his opponent's rifle and describes a semicircle with it upward and to the right; bayonets are crossed similarly as in the engaged position, each man's bayonet bearing lightly to the left against the corresponding portion of the opponent's bayonet.

in Occurrences 5%

The Brêche de Roland wasas it always is from this viewinvisible, hidden behind the Pic de Sarradets (8993 ft.); but the Fausse Brêche beyond, and more to the right the magnificent Taillon (10,323 ft.), and the Pic de Gabiétou, with the Port de Gavarniea peculiar shoulder-like rock, below them bothfilled up the semicircle in all its wonderful entirety.

to Occurrences 4%

He glowered from one horn of the silent, listening semicircle to the other, with all-including disdain.

behind Occurrences 4%

Gathering in a semicircle behind General Herkimer as before, we were hardly in position when Thayendanega, clad in all the bravery of his savage garb, and, what was most ominous, bedecked in war-paint, strode into the enclosure, followed by such members of his party as had accompanied him the day previous.

on Occurrences 2%

The rocks are at their finest at Killingnoble Scar, where they take the form of a semicircle on the west side of the railway.

between Occurrences 2%

Standing there in the centre of the semicircle between the assembly and the dog, Kurilla turned the Great Katharine's medal over, examining it closely, every eye in the room upon him.

across Occurrences 2%

Suddenly the aurora shone out with increased brilliancy, and its waving swords swept back and forth in great semicircles across the dark starry sky, and lighted up the snowy steppe with transitory flashes of coloured radiance, as if the gates of heaven were opening and closing upon the dazzling brightness of the celestial city.

above Occurrences 2%

It was all in shadow except the semicircle above the balcony that showed the sky and sea and the corner where the girl stood.

under Occurrences 1%

Say yours: but as to mine you know nothing, Leda.' The semicircles under her eyes had that morning, as often, a certain moist, heavy, pensive and weary something, as of one fresh from a revel, very sweet and tender: and, looking softly at me with it, she answered: 'I know my own heart, and it is not evil: not at all: not even in the very least:

against Occurrences 1%

Then, to the northward, a tiny spark grew brighter, flickered, swung in an arc to right, to left, dipped, soared, hung motionless, dipped again to right, to left, tracing faint crimson semicircles against the sky.

before Occurrences 1%

Have a semicircle before every lesson, and make the children keep their toes to the mark; brass nails driven in the floor are the best, or flat brass or iron let into the floor.

through Occurrences 1%

We made a semicircle through the secret shames that beautiful Paris would fain hide, and, emerging, found ourselves in the deserted and stony magnificence of the Gare de Lyon, the gate of the South.

beyond Occurrences 1%

Ho, ho, I am taking no middle road, Nat!" They had passed in a semicircle beyond the temple and now approached a squat building constructed of logs, which Obadiah had pointed out as the jail.

toward Occurrences 1%

"Why not cut back in a semicircle toward The Corner?" "Toward The Corner?

about Occurrences 1%

Boats and bateaux, drawn up in a great semicircle about the crescent bay, had also been washed; but they kept the marks of their long voyages to the Illinois Territory, or the Lake Superior region, or Canada.

like Occurrences 1%

Asenath, when she had locked her door, put her lamp before the looking-glass and tore off her gray cape; tore it off so savagely that the button snapped and rolled away,two little crystal semicircles like tears upon the floor.

Which preposition to use with  semicircles