Which preposition to use with waving

of Occurrences 1438%

The sun was hidden from me; but, from moment to moment, the world would brighten and darken, brighten and darken, beneath waves of subtle light and shadow....

in Occurrences 258%

Isis and Osiris grow dim; Jove nods in heaven; the pipe of Pan is dumb; Thor is silent in the northern Aurora; the tree of Igdrasil waves in midnight; Confucius is pale; Muhammad is dust.

to Occurrences 143%

Suddenly it was borne in upon me that an arm was doing the signalling, waving to me with a sprightly, even a jocular friendliness.

on Occurrences 118%

Oftentimes these waves of reflected light would break up suddenly into a kind of beaten foam, and again, after chasing one another in regular order, they would seem to bend forward in concentric curves, and disappear on some hillside, like sea-waves on a shelving shore.

with Occurrences 103%

The cluster of peaks called the "Crown of the Sierra," at the head of the Merced and Tuolumne rivers,Mounts Dana, Gibbs, Conness, Lyell, Maclure, Ritter, with their nameless compeers,each had its own refulgent banner, waving with a clearly visible motion in the sunglow, and there was not a single cloud in the sky to mar their simple grandeur.

from Occurrences 90%

Before evening the Laughing Lass, making slow way through the mists, had become separated by a league of waves from the cruiser.

at Occurrences 82%

Like the incoming of a great tidal wave at sea is the wave of spiritual insight and religious aspiration that is rolling over the colleges of our land.

of Occurrences 75%

Outside the circle of light were mysterious thingsstrange wavings of white hands, bendings of figures, callings of voices, rustling of feet.

over Occurrences 73%

Half an hour after the landing the exploring party stood on the summit of the hill, where the black flag waved over a scene of utter desolation.

above Occurrences 42%

We could see his white flag waving above the undergrowth, as he came bounding towards us.

like Occurrences 41%

Could we have been here to observe during the glacial period, we should have overlooked a wrinkled ocean of ice as continuous as that now covering the landscapes of Greenland; filling every valley and cañon with only the tops of the fountain peaks rising darkly above the rock-encumbered ice-waves like islets in a stormy seathose islets the only hints of the glorious landscapes now smiling in the sun.

before Occurrences 28%

A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was: Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

after Occurrences 25%

" She buried her head in her hands while wave after wave of desolation broke over the lonely soul.

against Occurrences 23%

The bottom of the storm is broken up into innumerable waves and currents that surge against the hillsides like sea-waves against a shore, and these, reacting on the nether surface of the storm, erode immense cavernous hollows and cañons, and sweep forward the resulting detritus in long trains, like the moraines of glaciers.

For Occurrences 17%

With stately stride He crossed the level sands and wide, Then on his shield the challenge gave His broad sword thund'ring like a wave For single combat.

about Occurrences 16%

Even Mrs. Pendennis began to wave about her pocket-handkerchief, and little Laura danced, laughed, clapped, and looked up at Pen with wonder.

into Occurrences 15%

He had been washed by that big wave into a deep cleft among the rocks and masses of hard clay, and shut in there he could not see the water nor anything excepting a patch of sky above him.

along Occurrences 14%

During the greater portion of the year, however, not a single water sound will you hear either at head or foot of the lake, not oven the whispered lappings of ripple-waves along the shore; for the winds are fenced out.

through Occurrences 12%

Mary called, on her part; and her voice had a flute note that seemed to go singing on its own ether waves through the tender green foliage, through all the gardens of Little Rivers, and even away to the pass.

under Occurrences 10%

The marriage ceremony was performed at half past ten; and at midnight Madame was alone with her protégées in the cabin of the ship Victoria, dashing through the dark waves under a star-bright sky.

around Occurrences 9%

He looked a little surprised, when I went in; but the cloud of anger had gone away: folded it up he had, I fancied, all ready to shake out again upon the slightest provocation; and I did not care to see its folds waving around me, so I did not speak to him.

as Occurrences 9%

It was about the middle of a dark night, though not stormy; the vessel was gliding along noiselessly; and all on board were asleep except the officer on watchand indeed he too perhaps slept, or he would have heard the noise of the keel cutting the waves as a bird's wing cuts the air, and he would have cried: 'Ship ahoy!'

by Occurrences 9%

She boasted of having first invented navigation and taught mankind the art of braving the winds and waves by the assistance of a frail bark.

toward Occurrences 9%

The shadows came waving toward her.

across Occurrences 7%

But had any one closely examined his countenance, they would have discovered beneath those long dark lashes, and clearly marked eyebrows, the deep blue eye of the Saxon race, which was also indicated by the rich brown hair, that, now unconcealed, waved across his manly forehead.

Which preposition to use with  waving