Which preposition to use with soaring

to Occurrences 69%

" "Well, let it be a lesson to you," said Chet with mock gravity, "never to let your ambitions soar to aeroplane inventing.

above Occurrences 50%

As human praise was never the object of his ambition, so he has nobly soared above it.

into Occurrences 48%

A "spanker" it certainly was: six yards from the commencement his legs flew from under him, he soared into the air like a bird, and did not touch the ground again until he sat down heavily within twenty paces of the bottom of the slope.

in Occurrences 36%

As lightly as a fairy the hydroplane skimmed over the water; then went soaring in the air.

beyond Occurrences 22%

Up to that time he had been an officer in a somewhat disorganized army, and his ambition at the outset never soared beyond a colonelcy.

on Occurrences 21%

to think we sons of air On man's low actions waste a care, His virtues or his vices; Or soaring on the summer gales, That we should stoop to carry tales Of him or his devices!

with Occurrences 20%

She was rising to her value, she was soaring with itthe value Mr. Pitman almost convulsively imputed to her, the value that consisted for her of being so unmistakably the most dazzling image Mrs. Brack had ever beheld.

over Occurrences 17%

We were fortunate enough to hear the solitaires sing not only when perched on trees, but on the wing, soaring over a great canon.

through Occurrences 16%

For she from the cold ashes of life at its last wane, Takes hope, and spreads her wings and soars through skyey tracks again.

of Occurrences 14%

As a boy he had loved to watch the soaring of the golden eagles, and once he had seen a great wide-winged condor, swooping along a mountain-crest.

from Occurrences 10%

Well might I in those days so fortunate, What time the sun lightened my path above, Have soared from earth to heaven, raised by her love Who winged my labouring soul and sweetened fate.

like Occurrences 9%

Nevertheless, he was rich in the possession of a temperament which soared like a lark above suffering and disappointment.

among Occurrences 6%

Every servant on the plantation had gathered to look with awe upon the wonderful bird-like machine, on which, it was whispered, these two venturesome young Americanos meant to soar among the clouds.

as Occurrences 3%

he soars as the hawk.'

around Occurrences 3%

There were also sleek fat cattle resting under the shade of live oak trees, and great birds that soared around overhead casting their shadows on the ground.

about Occurrences 2%

No human hand would give him Christian burial, and the vultures which soared about the island might pluck out his eyes even before life was extinct.

at Occurrences 2%

Here a wing flies out Soaring at Victory; here the maine Battalia Comes up with as much horrour and hotter terrour As if a thick-growne Forrest by enchantment Were made to move, and all the Trees should meete Pell mell, and rive their beaten bulkes in sunder, As petty Towers doe being flung downe by Thunder.

for Occurrences 2%

It has been well said by a very imaginative writer, that "when a poet floats in the empyrean, and only takes a bird's-eye view of the earth, some people accept the mere fact of his soaring for sublimity, and mistake his dim vision of earth for proximity to heaven."

out Occurrences 2%

Written in that bad style he found prevalent in his early daysthe style of the metaphysical poets, Cowley, Donne, and Draytonthe author ever and anon soars out of his trammels into strong and simple poetry, fervid description, and in one passagethat about the future fortunes of Londoninto eloquent prophecy.

amid Occurrences 2%

" Azarque drew his ready lance, his strong arm hurled it high, The light shaft soared amid the clouds, and vanished in the sky.

in Occurrences 1%

The imperial "Meditations" are without art or arrangement,a sort of diary, valuable solely for their precious thoughts; not lofty soarings in philosophical and religious contemplation, which tax the brain to comprehend, like the thoughts of Pascal, but plain maxims for the daily intercourse of life, showing great purity of character and extraordinary natural piety, blended with pithy moral wisdom and a strong sense of duty.

between Occurrences 1%

Then the clouds part, Swallows soaring between: The spring is awake, And the meadows are green, I jump up like mad; Break the old pipe in twain; And away to the meadows, The meadows again! EPSILON.

than Occurrences 1%

All the rest of her house of love had tumbled about her ears fifteen years before, but with these few remaining bricks she had erected many times since castles and towers more exquisite and lofty and soaring than the original humble structure had ever been.

against Occurrences 1%

When I with Icarus would soar against the sun, He is the only fiery Phaeton Denies my course, and sears my waxen wings, When as I soar aloft.

after Occurrences 1%

Usually this butt lifts it, and it flies back in a curve well up in the air; and an opposite player, rushing toward it, catches it on his head with such a swing of his brawny neck, and such precision and address that the ball bounds back through the air as a football soars after a drop-kick.

Which preposition to use with  soaring