Which preposition to use with sighting

of Occurrences 8974%

I felt almost as though I would welcome the sight of it.

in Occurrences 291%

"She had by this time approached a small gate, which communicated with the apartments on the ground-floor of the Zenana; when, turning to me, she said, "You can return the way you came, but I must leave you here;" and, making a slight bow, she sprung like a young fawn through the gate, and was out of sight in a moment.

for Occurrences 161%

Having got a right position, I sighted for a vital part, and fired.

to Occurrences 139%

The ordinary connection of ideas between handcuffs and policemen does not need very acute mental powers to grasp, but there is a further connection, a philological one, which is only evident at first sight to those who have made a small acquaintance with the science of words.

on Occurrences 122%

And our friends disappeared from our sight on their voyage home.

from Occurrences 73%

The band was playing a favourite waltz of mine, and I stayed there rather enjoying the music and the sight from my safe retreat.

at Occurrences 69%

When it rose to sight at the proper spot, none were more astounded than the bad risk who now addresses you.

as Occurrences 57%

She has always lived as much out of the public sight as possible, though her work has rendered her dear to all hearts.

with Occurrences 57%

He was gazing at the sight with hungry eyes, he whose gaze was, for usual, so passionless.

than Occurrences 43%

A wraith ship, peopled with skeletons, would have been less dreadful to their sight than the brisk and active desolation of the heeling schooner.

by Occurrences 39%

"Well, they probably will be in sight by the time we come up with the Glasgow," said Captain Raleigh.

among Occurrences 34%

The wool is white, and grows in beautiful spirals down out of sight among the shining hair, like delicate climbing vines among stalks of corn.

behind Occurrences 30%

And Donnegan, standing modestly out of sight behind a pillar until the dance ended, noted twenty phases of life in twenty faces.

into Occurrences 26%

After scratching his ear with one of his hind feet, and his side with the other, he turned and walked deliberately from our sight into the forest.

over Occurrences 23%

Steaming majestically over a smiling sea, with the green hills of Erin in sight over the port bow and all well aboard, the greatest, fastest and most beautiful transatlantic liner in commission was nearing the end of her voyage from New York to Liverpool.

like Occurrences 20%

Thy spirits are more settled than mine, if thou canst sit quietly down to such work, with sights like these daily before thine eyes,' pointing with her hand to the window.

along Occurrences 19%

He stooped to sight along the ground, for this is the best way at night and often horizon lights are revealed in this manner.

before Occurrences 19%

I thought more of her, I had so lately seen, than of the sight before me.

around Occurrences 18%

" "Yes, it is a little, but there it is now, just coming into sight around the curve.

through Occurrences 18%

I climbed to the surface to get a sight through my tube of the effect and discovered that the shot had gone straight and true, striking the ship, which I later learned was the Aboukir, under one of its magazines, which in exploding helped the torpedo's work of destruction.

under Occurrences 17%

I knew the voice and cast one quick glance that way, in time to see Ella sinking affrightedly out of sight under the dismayed looks of father and mother; then, anxious to note whether the prisoner had recognised her, too, looked hastily back to find him standing quietly and unmoved, with his eyes on his counsel and his lips set in the stern line which was slowly changing his expression.

down Occurrences 10%

Somehow they seemed to have no right place in the landscape, and I was glad to see them fading out of sight down the pass.

beyond Occurrences 10%

Then he led Buck away, zigzagging tediously, at last passing from sight beyond an out jutting monster crag.

during Occurrences 9%

The specimens are not in sight during the recitation.

between Occurrences 9%

The doctor's laboratory stood in plain sight between the two columns of steam blown straight upward through the stillness of the evening.

Which preposition to use with  sighting