Which preposition to use with sunlight

of Occurrences 91%

But 'some days must be dark and dreary,' and they serve to give the sunlight of a bright to-morrow a keener relish, and a lovelier comparative beauty.

on Occurrences 61%

In those days I thought that I had caught the sunlight on my pen, and the wind and the moon and the spinning earth.

in Occurrences 32%

" "Why," said my friend, "he tells about a beautiful lake, lying away back in the northern wilderness, above which Mount Marcy, and Mount Seward, and other nameless peaks of the Adirondacks, rear their tall heads to the clouds, throwing back the sunlight in a blaze of glory; on which the moonbeams lie like a mantle of silver, while away down in its fathomless depths the stars glow and sparkle, like the sheen of a million of diamonds.

into Occurrences 12%

" To the whispering plash of the oars they moved from sunlight into twilight, from twilight into darkness.

through Occurrences 11%

The ripe fruit seeks the sunlight through all the clustering leaves The earth is decked with golden maize, and costly yellow sheaves.

with Occurrences 10%

A small crowd gathered to watch the picturesque ceremony of reception Cornificia's house steward marshaling his staff, the brightly colored costumes blending in the sunlight with the hues of flowers and the rich, soft sheen of marble in the shadow of tall cypresses.

for Occurrences 10%

The city must come out of itself for a few weeks, and get oxygen for its lungs, sunlight for its eyes, and rest for its overworked brain.

from Occurrences 8%

In this country there is nothing fixed, nothing stationary, and never has been since the first white man swung his axe against the outside forest tree; since the first green field was opened up to the sunlight from the deep shadows of the old forests that had stood there, grand, solemn, and boundless since this world was first thrown from the hand of God.

to Occurrences 8%

"All right, Joan, you queer creature; I promise," and the instant look of relief in her face, and the smile that came back like sunlight to her eyes, made me feel that, unknown to myself and the world, I was capable of considerable sacrifice after all.

like Occurrences 8%

The air was mottled with pine-tassels and bright green plumes, that went flashing past in the sunlight like birds pursued.

at Occurrences 6%

On one such day when, standing on the high slope of Fifth Avenue where it rises toward the Park, and looking down on it, surging to and fro, it was as if, so manifest the brilliancy, every head wore a tin helmet, parrying sunlight at a thousand angles of refraction.

about Occurrences 4%

Beth realized this nowdays of strange achievement under his eyeserrant glimpses of life's inner beautymoments in which she had felt the power to paint even that delicate and fleeting shimmer of sunlight about a humming-bird's wing, so intense was her visiontheir talks, and the ridewell she knew that these would be the lights of her flagging eyestreasures of the old Beth, whose pictures all were painted.

as Occurrences 4%

If the time is short, they have twice as much sunlight as with you.

before Occurrences 4%

" Longears obeyed with much dignity, and was soon basking in the sunlight before the door.

by Occurrences 4%

William Dorrit was sitting in his old grey gown and his old black cap in the sunlight by the window when they entered.

over Occurrences 4%

It was a wonderful organization, spreading over this country like sunlight over a field.

than Occurrences 4%

You may find better things to do in the sunlight than listening to the stories of an old, broken soldier.

among Occurrences 3%

And while small harm has ever come from humoring one's mother, yet I wonder at you, Manuel, that you should sit here sleeping in the sunlight among your pigs, and be giving your young time to improbable sculpture and stagnant water, when there is such a fine adventure awaiting you, and when the Norns are foretelling such high things about you as they spin the thread of your living.

below Occurrences 2%

At nine o'clock they passed the last shoulder and stood above Torre Garda, and the valley of the Wolf lying in the sunlight below them.

beside Occurrences 2%

Foh-Kyung moved out of the shadow of the ancestral hall and stood in the warm sunlight beside Dong-Yung, his small wife.

out Occurrences 2%

Handloom weaving is now about as hopeless a job as trying to extract sunlight out of cucumbers; but at that time it was a paying air.

per Occurrences 2%

Various theories about the effects of climate, sunlight per square inch and unit of time, oxygen content of the air, and so on, were offered up upon the altar of scientific explanation.

without Occurrences 2%

Though it was bright sunlight without, against the background of the dark interior his eyes shone as though they were afire.

after Occurrences 2%

I have also prepared some screens to show you the value of sunlight after passing through five and ten atmospheres.

under Occurrences 2%

The mottled sunlight under the trees danced and quivered after her, smiling and darkening as she dimpled or was grave.

Which preposition to use with  sunlight