Which preposition to use with shrinkings

from Occurrences 33%

The hearth will soon grow cold, and the bright eyes of the fairest woman will dull with age, and the years will find you heavy and slow, with a coward's shrinking from death.

of Occurrences 15%

Substances used to produce a contraction or shrinking of living tissues.

in Occurrences 8%

Sylvester Paine thought he saw a shrinking in her face, and followed up his advantage with a fresh outpouring of abuse.

on Occurrences 3%

There was no shrinking on Ralph's part now.

within Occurrences 1%

The shrinking within me to face that vague suspicion which I had, turned me first to a foreign land.

before Occurrences 1%

White-faced and trembling, the mountain girlwho a few moments before, had been so unafraidstood shrinking before this cultured representative of the arts.

by Occurrences 1%

"You might meet your natural shrinking by allowing yourself to treat especially of your literary life; including, of course, whatever went to form and sustain it.

at Occurrences 1%

Personally she had no such prejudice, except perhaps a little shrinking at the thought of personal contact with the dark faces of whom Americans always think when "colored people" are spoken of.

Which preposition to use with  shrinkings