Which preposition to use with twilights

of Occurrences 235%

After we had been in the moon about forty eight hours, the sun had sunk below the horizon, and the long twilight of the Lunarians had begun.

in Occurrences 26%

I made them anchor at twilight in mid-stream for safety's sake, for in that drouthy clime a firebrand might play havoc with them.

on Occurrences 16%

For these few blissful days the lovers had heaven to themselves, floating about at twilight on the shores of the Lido, where there were none to trouble the clear serenity of their joy by the chilling breath of criticism.

to Occurrences 12%

'Let the sun come upon him,' she said; 'let him feel the brightness of the light,'and with her soft hands she drew him out of the shade of the twilight to where the brightness of the day fell like a smile upon the flowers.

with Occurrences 7%

" She waited in the rising twilight with a yet averted face.

into Occurrences 7%

" Various theories were advanced, withdrawn, refuted, defended, and the discussion carried them through the swift twilight into the darkness which had been hastened by a high-spreading canopy of storm-clouds.

at Occurrences 6%

" THE LAMENTATION FOR CELIN At the gate of old Granada, when all its bolts are barred, At twilight at the Vega gate there is a trampling heard; There is a trampling heard, as of horses treading slow, And a weeping voice of women, and a heavy sound of woe.

by Occurrences 5%

Daily walked the fair and lovely Sultan's daughter in the twilight, In the twilight by the fountain, Where the sparkling waters plash.

before Occurrences 5%

Love is your only democrat; Ethelinda in Fifth Avenue, glittering with the clear splendor of diamonds, and rustling like a white-birch-swamp with pale silks, gleaming through the twilight before an opera, and looking violets at Sydney Hamilton over the top of her inlaid fan, is no more thrilled and rapt and tortured by the Disturber in Wings, than Biddy in the kitchen, holding tryst with her "b'y" at the sink-room window.

for Occurrences 4%

Fifty years before, Sir Beverley had stood at that same window waiting and listening in the spring twilight for the beloved footfall of the woman who was never again to enter his house.

after Occurrences 4%

I saw some twilight after 10:00 o'clock.

along Occurrences 4%

" They were walking together in the February twilight along the long, dark avenue of chestnuts that led to Rodding Abbey.

toward Occurrences 4%

He looked wistfully through the twilight toward Mary's slender figure, outlined against the window.

over Occurrences 3%

Not a light shone, not a sound or a sign of life came from these little houses, whose shells close daily at twilight over the life within, weary with the day's work.

like Occurrences 3%

Simultaneously the shutter of perceptions snapped, photographing permanently upon the super-sensitized film of conscious memory the glimpsed vista of a grim, mean street whose repellent uglinesses grinned through the boding twilight like lineaments of some monstrous mask of evil.

through Occurrences 3%

A dawning twilight through the cave In moony gleams doth go, Half from the swan above the wave, Half from the swan below.

from Occurrences 3%

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

among Occurrences 2%

The line once interposed, he rode in the twilight among the disordered groups above mentioned, and the sight of him aroused a tumult.

than Occurrences 2%

It was less lurid, paler, gray, more like twilight than the stormy afternoon of the other city.

under Occurrences 2%

Her amanuensis recordhow the little song "Where is the Sea" came to her like a strain of music whilst lying in the twilight under the infliction of a blister.

between Occurrences 2%

" The passage referred to the Roman gladiatorial shows, and to the philosophic detachment by which Marcus Aurelius was able to see and yet not to see them; and the whole book was the spiritual story of a young Roman's soul, a priestlike artistic temperament, born in the haunted twilight between the setting sun of pagan religion and philosophy and the dawn of the Christian idea.

within Occurrences 2%

The gray twilight within these walls was like the gloom of a hopeless life.

as Occurrences 2%

It is all too much in the future, too practical and commonplace altogether to fit such a twilight as this," she said, with a touch of petulance.

without Occurrences 1%

Even in October the temperature of the favourite's apartment was deliciously reviving after a morning in the bazaars or the dusty streets, and I never came back to its wet tiles and perpetual twilight without the sense of plunging into a deep sea-pool.

behind Occurrences 1%

Her face and hands are exquisite, and the Tuscan twilight behind her is so lovely.

Which preposition to use with  twilights