Which preposition to use with sombre

in Occurrences 10%

These were all in the water, in waiting for the disappearance of the ice; which was now reduced to a mass of stalactites in form, greenish and sombre in hue, as they floated in a body, but clear and bright when separated and exposed to the sun.

as Occurrences 6%

The sky was cloudless; the forest was neither terrible nor beautiful, but heavy and sombre as of olda natural gloomy wood, but no prodigy.

with Occurrences 4%

The tender cast of soul, sombred with melancholy and subsiding recollections, is favorable to the Sonnet or the Elegy; but from "The sainted growing woof The teasing troubles keep aloof.

of Occurrences 3%

Thus said Beltane, sombre of brow and pale of cheek; and so, beckoning to the others, turned away, despite Sir Pertolepe's passionate threats and prayers, and plunging into the dense underbrush, strode swift-footed from the place, with the captive's wild cries ringing in his ears.

than Occurrences 3%

A certain house in Saumur, larger and more sombre than most, and once the residence of nobility, belonged to M. Grandet.

by Occurrences 3%

Life became more sombre by the irksome duties of educating unruly children, and the forced retirement to which she was necessarily subjected.

for Occurrences 2%

The drawing of Christ is masterly and all too sombre for Perugino.

into Occurrences 1%

Nowhere else did the evening gray and sombre into the mysterious night impalpably as here.

at Occurrences 1%

Her gaze, profound and sombre at times, roamed over the room with the natural air of a meditative queen.

along Occurrences 1%

Behind them, to the westward, rose a square-topped mountain, crowned by a clear tarn; and, behind that, tier upon tier of hills, stretching dark and sombre along Lough Mask to the north, and spreading westward to the twelve crystal hills of Connemara.

Which preposition to use with  sombre