Which preposition to use with symbol

of Occurrences 1215%

But instead of getting up and looking his enemy in the face, he wriggled along on his belly, still under cover of the Kamlayka, till he got to the bear-skin, pushed it aside with a motion of the hooded head, and crawled out like some snaky symbol of darkness and superstition fleeing before the light.

in Occurrences 39%

[Footnote 8: This word is inserted by Boissevain on the authority of a symbol in the manuscript's margin, indicating a gap.]

for Occurrences 31%

Around the spring, where must have been a gathering place of the tribes, it is scored over with strange pictures and symbols that have no meaning to the Indians of the present day; but out where the rock begins, there is carved into the white heart of it a pointing arrow over the symbol for distance and a circle full of wavy lines reading thus: "In this direction three [units of measurement unknown] is a spring of sweet water; look for it.

by Occurrences 17%

The whole of a sum can be gone through on this board with the button-moulds, and on boards and chalk with figures, side by side, thus interpreting symbol by material; but the whole process is abstract.

to Occurrences 16%

We found that symbolic play leads the child from the symbol to the truth symbolized.

on Occurrences 13%

" By the scarlet headgear, and a white symbol on the back of his jacket, the man at their feet was one of the musketeers.

with Occurrences 7%

This is Brahminism; but the other great form of Oriental religion has carried the same fair symbol with it.

from Occurrences 6%

Scholars, basing their opinions on words found in the Expositio Fidei Fortunati, date the origin of this symbol from the fifth century.

as Occurrences 6%

To the British imagination Gibraltar is almost as sacred a national symbol as the lions in Trafalgar Square.

at Occurrences 5%

The brisk, high-stepping drum corps rat-a-tatting at intervals; then tempests of cheers, flashing banners and patriotic symbols at every window; tears, laughter, humorous cries, jokes, sobbing outbreaks.

among Occurrences 4%

As the magnificent, the vast, the sublime, which was seen in Nature, impressed itself on the imagination of the Orientals and ended in legends, so did allegory in process of time multiply fictions and fables to an indefinite extent; and what were symbols among Eastern nations became impersonations in the poetry of Greece.

than Occurrences 2%

We see at once the mistake directly we understand that a genuine style is the living body of thought, not a costume that can be put on and off; it is the expression of the writer's mind; it is not less the incarnation of his thoughts in verbal symbols than a picture is the painter's incarnation of his thoughts in symbols of form and colour.

under Occurrences 2%

These men, therefore, being judgesmen of large and cultivated minds, and whose powers of discernment all will acknowledge to be sufficiently clearit is certain that the particular manner in which the United States have arisen, answers most strikingly to the development of the symbol under consideration.

like Occurrences 2%

It displayed, in a green vesture not unlike his own, but with a gold ribbon and emerald symbol like the cross of an European knighthood over the right shoulder, a spare soldierly form, with the most striking countenance I have ever seen; one which, once seen, none could forget.

into Occurrences 1%

In their hands it has gradually expanded from a mere symbol into a scene of the most dramatic and varied effect and the most gorgeous splendour.

behind Occurrences 1%

Clothed with all power, he hid its very symbol behind a genial modesty, and refused ever to exert it save in obedience to law.

within Occurrences 1%

12, 13) well repays study, for one feels it to be alive with meaning, holding symbol within symbol.

without Occurrences 1%

He may easily seem to his wife to be contenting himself with the symbol without the reality, the body without the soul.

over Occurrences 1%

['x] Circumflex [^x] Breve (u-shaped symbol over letter)

throughout Occurrences 1%

It was, says Faber (Cabir. ii. 390), a symbol throughout the pagan world long previous to its becoming an object of veneration to Christians.

Which preposition to use with  symbol