Which preposition to use with shroud

in Occurrences 157%

The beef is dead ox, and the hay is dead grass; but the "organic molecules" of the beef or the hay are not dead, but are ready to manifest their vitality as soon as the bovine or herbaceous shrouds in which they are imprisoned are rent by the macerating action of water.

of Occurrences 61%

Arriving opposite it, we walked out on to the projecting arm of rock, and I must confess to having felt an intolerable sense of terror as I looked down from that dizzy perch into the unknown depths below usinto the deeps from which there rose ever the thunder of the falling water and the shroud of rising spray.

from Occurrences 11%

The centre of the vacant area openedit threw forth a phantom terrific and enormousits magnitude seemed to grow upon the sight; its lineaments were shrouded from our view by an immense mantle, on which were represented a thousand different and hideous images of Death.

for Occurrences 7%

We're coming, we're coming, we'll come from afar, Our standard we'll nail to humanity's car; With shoutings we'll raise it, in triumph to wave, A trophy of conquest, or shroud for the brave.

with Occurrences 7%

Lapped in it, far off, shrouded with rosy mist which she did not identify as transmuted coal smoke, a city lay, fretted with spires, already sparkling with electric lights, set like a glittering boss of jewels in the broad curve of a shining river.

on Occurrences 4%

Upwards of 25 shot went through our sails, 2 through our mast in its weakest part just below where it was fished, 1 cut our fore shroud on the Larboard side, & another went through our Starboard gunwale, port & all.

within Occurrences 2%

He frequenteth not the stages of common resorts, and then alone thinks himself in his natural element when he is shrouded within his own walls.

above Occurrences 2%

He emerged from the forest and saw again the leisurely weaving of the smoke shroud above the house.

into Occurrences 2%

When the stores had been received on board, the anchor was weighed in order to take up a more favourable position for making a start, but, unfortunately, shortly after the ship got underway, a man named Peter Flowers fell from the main-shrouds into the sea and was drowned before assistance could be rendered: the second death since leaving England.

over Occurrences 2%

When the husband is there on his knees, weeping for his wife, when he extends the shroud over her, any other would have stopped, but M. Flaubert makes a final stroke with his brush: "The sheet sank in from her breast to her knees, and then rose at the tips of her toes.

under Occurrences 2%

It shrouds under a twilight thicket of vines, under a dome of cottonwood-trees, drowsy and murmurous as a hive.

like Occurrences 1%

In this condition, wrapt up and shrouded like a corpse, she was kept for two or three days or so long as the symptoms lasted, and during this time she had to observe a most rigorous fast.

near Occurrences 1%

He yelled and made a grab for the mizzen shroud near which he was standing, but he suddenly found himself brought up with a round turn, for the German had caught the boy's feet in a bight of cable, so that he would not go overboard.

at Occurrences 1%

We tramped to the river Jordan, and all in our death shrouds at Bethabara, waded into the stream and were baptized.

around Occurrences 1%

Then the fear-chill gathered o'er me, Like a shroud around me cast, As I sank upon the snow-drift Where the shadow hunter passed.

among Occurrences 1%

He was walking in his shroud among the cherry-trees, and he looked seriously at her.

to Occurrences 1%

While he was in chase of this vessel a circumstance occurred, which made his men believe he dealt with the devil; his fore and main top-mast being carried away, he, Lewis, running up the shrouds to the maintop, tore off a handful of hair, and throwing it into the air used this expression, good devil, take this till I come.

about Occurrences 1%

In shrouds about the cornices already lay the heart of the oak wainscot that the worm had eaten out.

by Occurrences 1%

Closely concealed, the gay and splendid scene, Rustem contemplates with astonished mien; When Zind, retiring, marks the listener nigh, Watching the festal train with curious eye; And well he knew, amongst his Tartar host, Such towering stature not a Chief could boast "What spy is here, close shrouded by the night?

beneath Occurrences 1%

They then fly for endless distances down across the north temperate zone, across the equator, through the lands where the days and nights are always of equal length, into another hemisphere, and spend another summer of long days and long twilights in the far south, where the Antarctic winds cool them, while their nesting home, at the other end of the world, is shrouded beneath the iron desolation of the polar night.

unto Occurrences 1%

And it was Huge in size, and was shrouded unto its feet, and seemed, maybe ten feet high.

Which preposition to use with  shroud