Which preposition to use with shaping

of Occurrences 2015%

And then, as I peered, curiously, a new terror came to me; for away up among the dim peaks to my right, I had descried a vast shape of blackness, giantlike.

like Occurrences 251%

Curiously enough, it was defined accurately, being exactly in shape like one of the rectangular tin air-shafts you see so often in city hotels.

in Occurrences 165%

His discoveries have taken shape in my hands.

for Occurrences 83%

"You are shaping for a Laodicean, of whom there are many in these latter times.

into Occurrences 72%

Mix all well together and shape into rolls.

of Occurrences 59%

To each of us, thinking of this one and that one who has taken a large part in the shaping of the world, there comes a feeling: Beside all these I am in a narrow way!

to Occurrences 58%

He noted the whittling where the sapling bar that held the stout oaken door in place had been recently shaped to its present purpose.

with Occurrences 51%

Now beneath this tree, far removed from the fire, sat a great swarthy fellow, chin on fist, scowling down at that which lay at his feet, and of a sudden he spurned this still and silent shape with savage foot.

as Occurrences 38%

"If these germs do not develop and take shape as independent formations in each individual, they at least teach how to understand and to recognise those of other people.

from Occurrences 35%

Should you see Mrs. C., who has just written to C. a letter, which I have given him, it will be as well to say nothing about its fate till some answer is shaped from Drury.

by Occurrences 23%

The germ-idea of Kipling's Finest Story in the World is to be found in Poe's Tale of the Ragged Mountains; Apuleius's germ-plot, of the man who was changed by enchantment into an ass, and could only recover his human shape by eating rose-leaves, was taken either from Lucian or from Lucius of Patrae.

at Occurrences 22%

Perhaps, too, certain dim, haunting thoughts, which he had long been painfully revolving in his mind, without as yet being able to come to a decision, took shape at that moment.

on Occurrences 20%

And, if it is thereI c-c-can c-capture it for the B-B-Bronx" Reason tottered; it revived, however, as he plunged into the s. w.[A] of Oyster Bay and struck out, silent as a sea otter for the shimmering shape on the ruddy rocks.

before Occurrences 14%

The substance of the earth is constantly taking new shape before our eyes, being rearranged in kaleidoscopic combinations, and transported from port to port, from town to town, from sea to sea.

than Occurrences 12%

" "Yes; there's something worse out o' shape than that.

under Occurrences 12%

They took graceful shape under her nimble fingers, and, feeling happy in her work, she began to hum, "How brightly breaks the morning!

out Occurrences 7%

Is the time to come when man shall be able to shape out of clay, fashion from wood, or stone, an image of himself, and, breathing upon it, command it to walk forth a thing of life, and be obeyed?

against Occurrences 7%

A woman dancing, or a world Poised on one crystal foot afar, In shining gulfs of silence whirled, Like notes of the strange music are; Small shape against another curled, Or dancing dust that makes a star.

without Occurrences 7%

It must be allowed to regain its natural shape without interference.

during Occurrences 6%

"From the seventh century onwards, ecclesiastical writers, papal decrees and conciliar decrees recognise the eight parts of the office, which we have seen took shape during the sixth century, and regard their recitation by priests and monks as enjoined by positive law.

among Occurrences 5%

It is dying, as Napoleon said, of indigestion, and that other community of the world which is slowly taking shape among free and reasonable peoples will demand its dissolution.

between Occurrences 5%

In it those two good people softly placed him, an' all that night I watched its shape between me an' the window.

behind Occurrences 5%

And still the moon, at which now I threw a despairing glance, was no more than a ghostly shape behind the great bank of cloud which was passing over it.

about Occurrences 4%

Soft, sallow, succulent, delicately finished about the mouth and firmly shaped about the chin, dark-eyed, full-throated, they looked as if they had been grown in a land of olives.

beneath Occurrences 4%

On her knees beside the couch there, the second waistcoat was already taking shape beneath the cocksure needles.

Which preposition to use with  shaping