Which preposition to use with sunbeams

of Occurrences 21%

He wore green trimmed with gold and a bright shining sabre On which sunbeams of Liberty shone brightly that day.

in Occurrences 20%

Through the clear, transparent water He could see the fishes swimming Far down in the depths below him; See the yellow perch, the Sahwa, Like a sunbeam in the water, See the Shawgashee, the craw-fish, Like a spider on the bottom, On the white and sandy bottom.

on Occurrences 13%

Look at the sunbeam on the trunk of the firhow red it's got.

from Occurrences 12%

Like emerald lakes the meadows lie, And daisies dot the main; The sunbeams from the deep blue sky Drop down in golden rain, And gild the lily's silver bell, And coax buds apart,

into Occurrences 5%

It swims, and the plates become paddles, propelling the frail craft, prisms, dividing the sunbeams into rainbow hues.

through Occurrences 5%

Peter had left open his jalousies, but his windows were closed, and now as he entered he found his apartment flooded with sunshine and filled with that equable warmth that comes of straining sunbeams through glass.

at Occurrences 3%

An aspen under the window whispers to me in a chorus of all its leaves, and when I look out, every leaf turns a sunbeam at me.

among Occurrences 3%

"Do you think that can be one of his scales?" asked she, pointing to a small piece of tin which glittered in a stray sunbeam among the stones.

for Occurrences 3%

"We know more certainly every day," says Ruskin, "that whatever appears to us harmful in the universe has some beneficent or necessary operation; that the storm which destroys a harvest brightens the sunbeams for harvests yet unsown, and that a volcano which buries a city preserves a thousand from destruction.

IN Occurrences 2%

A SEARCH FOR WINTER SUNBEAMS IN THE RIVIERA, CORSICA, | | ALGIERS, AND SPAIN.

by Occurrences 2%

So far is this from being the case, that though the style of Plotinus and Jamblichus[20] is by no means to be compared with that of Plato, yet this inferiority is lost in the depth and sublimity of their conceptions, and is as little regarded by the intelligent reader, as motes in a sunbeam by the eye that gladly turns itself to the solar light.

like Occurrences 2%

They occur in large irregular patches in the summit and middle regions, and though they have been subjected to the action of the weather with its corroding storms for thousands of years, their mechanical excellence is such that they still reflect the sunbeams like glass, and attract the attention of every observer.

to Occurrences 2%

Her soul flew on the sunbeams to heaven; and there was nobody who asked after the RED SHOES.

as Occurrences 1%

So saintly was that masterful priest that he was wont, when he prayed, to hang his hat and gloves on a sunbeam as on a hook.

with Occurrences 1%

Corn, which late, was scarcely seen, Struggling slowly into green, 'Neath the Summer's torrid glow How like magic it does grow; Rising to majestic height, Drinks the sunbeams with delight, Sends its rootlets through the soil, Foraging for hidden spoil; Riches more than golden ore, Silent workers they explore: With their apparatus small, Noiselessly they gather all.

without Occurrences 1%

Here were bahia, madia, madaria, burrielia, chrysopsis, corethrogyne, grindelia, etc., growing in close social congregations of various shades of yellow, blending finely with the purples of clarkia, orthocarpus, and oenothera, whose delicate petals were drinking the vital sunbeams without giving back any sparkling glow.

over Occurrences 1%

The inconstant April mornings drop showers or sunbeams over the glistening lake, while far beneath its surface a murky mass disengages itself from the muddy bottom, and rises slowly through the waves.

Which preposition to use with  sunbeams