Which preposition to use with unseen

by Occurrences 51%

she suddenly asked, whilst I, unseen by her, was preparing one of the soothing powders that still were left from the night wherein I forgot my duty.

in Occurrences 21%

I slipped by him unseen in the carriage-way.

into Occurrences 12%

Entertain her but a minute with fair words, while I can get unseen into my gondola; and then, for the sake of an old and tried friend, put her tenderly on the quay, in the best manner thou art able.

to Occurrences 10%

I let him begin, and followed you unseen to Heidelberg, meaning to personate an artist.

on Occurrences 7%

Green fingers playing Unseen on wind-lyres, Low singing bird voices, These are his choirs.

of Occurrences 5%

When night's black mantle overspreads the sky, And day's bright lamp is drenched in the west To-morrow night I think the fittest time, That silent shade[s] may give us safe convoy Unto our wished hopes, unseen of living eye.

among Occurrences 5%

Now she had a hundred eager questions; she saw the shining splendour of the solitudes through King's eyes; she turned to him with full confidence for the name of a flower, the habit of a bird, even though the latter, unseen among the trees, had only announced himself by a half-dozen enraptured notes.

from Occurrences 4%

no twig shall snap, who smite unseen from brush and thicket and being wise in wood-craft thus make the forest their ally.

over Occurrences 4%

Yet what did that supposed marvellousness consist in, except in a seeming revelation of the power and superiority of mind over matter, and of things unseen over things seen and palpable; and in proving that there were more wonders in heaven and earth than were dreamt of by a crude and self-satisfied materialism?

with Occurrences 4%

Courage, my children and 'greet the unseen with a cheer.' 'Fight on, my men,' said Sir Andrew Barton.

as Occurrences 4%

The moose will perhaps one day become extinct; but how naturally then, when it exists only as a fossil relic, and unseen as that, may the poet or sculptor invent a fabulous animal with similar branching and leafy horns,a sort of fucus or lichen in bone,to be the inhabitant of such a forest as this!

behind Occurrences 3%

Joe's quick eye observed it in time to enable them to retire unseen behind the shelter of some trees, where they remained until the Indian warriors were out of sight.

through Occurrences 3%

Later, in the bitter, hungry winter, when a big caribou was afoot and the pack hot on his trail, the cubs would remember the lesson, and every free wolf would curb his hunger, obeying the silent signal to ease the game and follow slowly while the leader raced unseen through the woods to head the game and lie in ambush by the distant runway.

until Occurrences 3%

Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman is unseen until the second act, though (through his wife's ears) we have already heard him pacing up and down his room like a wolf in his cage.

before Occurrences 2%

The shells are all new species; unseen before in this planet.

beneath Occurrences 2%

The submarine, which was thrown into the struggle in increasing numbers, represented an entirely new development, for the submarine is a vessel which can travel unseen beneath the water and, while still unseen, except for a possible momentary glimpse of a few inches of periscope, can launch a torpedo at long or short range and with deadly accuracy.

without Occurrences 1%

Now I tell you when an enemy is whispering unseen without, rustling like rats in straw, and you wonder at what point they will break in next, thinking all the while of the woman you love (or do not yet love, but may) in the chamber behindI tell you a castle is something less difficult to hold at such a time than just one's own breath.

against Occurrences 1%

A pair of green eyes glowed steadily like coals deep within the dark entrance; a massive gray head rested unseen against the lichens of a gray rock; then the whole gaunt body glided like a passing cloud shadow into the June sunshine and was lost in a cleft of the rocks.

along Occurrences 1%

And all the time the invisible stream of heavy, deadly gas was pouring out of the stovepipe and trickling unseen along the floor.

amid Occurrences 1%

Within these wilds your tactics shall avail nothing nor all your trampling chivalryhere must be foresters that may go silent and unseen amid the leaves, 'neath whose trained feet

amidst Occurrences 1%

Even those amongst the vulgar who believed the plant bore seed, had an idea that the seeds were visible only at certain mysterious seasons and to favored individuals who by carrying a quantity of it on their person, were able, like those who wore the helmet of Pluto or the ring of Gyges, to walk unseen amidst a crowd.

around Occurrences 1%

As you are young and charming, a thousand dangers lurk unseen around you.

at Occurrences 1%

so had my lord, who, being at home and sleepless, had risen betimes and was walking in the cool of the morning on a little pleasaunce next my lady's tower, and hearing the song, had looked unseen at the singer, had guessed the bitter truth, but had held his peace till a riper time.

between Occurrences 1%

The Grave lies unseen between us and the Object which we reach after: Where one Man lives to enjoy the Good he has in view, ten thousand are cut off in the Pursuit of it.

beyond Occurrences 1%

"Aye, and Roger too!" said Beltane, grim-lipped, "our ring of fire is well-nigh completeit lacketh but for us and Ulfto work, then!" Came the sound of flint meeting steela sound that spread along the ranks that lay unseen beyond Prat and Cnut.

Which preposition to use with  unseen