Which preposition to use with yawning

beneath Occurrences 16%

Be assembled, all of you; And, after, raise your triumph-song to greet This pitiless Power that yawns beneath our feet.

in Occurrences 14%

On this occasion, however, he had reappeared in the village, a few hours later, in an extraordinary state of excitement, and with the astounding information, that the House had disappeared bodily, and that a stupendous pit now yawned in the place where it had stood.

for Occurrences 14%

There he stood, suspended over an abyss, smoking a cigarette, bravely forcing himself to an attitude of serene insouciance, while the basement yawned for him!

over Occurrences 13%

At a moment when the shadow of world-war was over the country like a pair of black wings lowering Mrs. Harry Ross, who swooned at the sight of blood from a penknife scratch down the hand of her son, but yawned over the head-line statistics of the casualties at Verdun, lifted a lid from a pot that exuded immediate savory fumes, prodded with a fork at its content, her concern boiled down to deal solely with stew.

between Occurrences 10%

If I could tell you what it is you would understand and see how great a gulf yawns between us.

behind Occurrences 10%

" Yawning behind her hand, the Flowerpot murmured something about Free Trade being positively absurd, and her guardian went on: "Nevertheless, Mr. BLADAMS is going on-with his work, which he calls 'The Amateur Detective;' and if it ever does come out you shall have a copy.

with Occurrences 9%

Then she yawned with deliberate cruelty.

before Occurrences 7%

A large, open pit yawned before me.

of Occurrences 6%

The smell of joss-sticks, fish, and sour betel, the subtle sweetness of opium, grew constantly stronger, blended with exhalations of ancient refuse, and (as the chairs jogged past the club, past filthy groups huddling about the well in a marketplace, and onward into the black yawn of the city gate) assailed the throat like a bad and lasting taste.

at Occurrences 6%

It was as if a man should yawn at his marriage or refuse to sleep at his funeral.

on Occurrences 4%

Hell yawned on either hand; only along the knife edge of Truth could salvation be reached.

of Occurrences 3%

Zeus shall send rain, long rain and flaw of driven Hail, and a whirling darkness blown from heaven; To me his levin-light he promiseth O'er ships and men, for scourging and hot death: Do thou make wild the roads of the sea, and steep With war of waves and yawning of the deep, Till dead men choke Euboea's curling bay.

from Occurrences 3%

One yawn from such an audience meant his professional damnationhe knew that; every second must break like froth in a wine glass; an instant's perplexity, a slackening of the tension, and those flaccid intellects would relax into native inertia.

after Occurrences 2%

As pillar after pillar gave way, she bounded up an inclined plane, with the gulf yawning after her.

below Occurrences 2%

Then he saw a deep gulch yawning below him, and caught the flutter of a handkerchief on the far side.

into Occurrences 2%

To whichsoever side we direct our view, we perceive nothing but land incapable of receiving any sort of cultivation, and precipitous rocks that rise to the very clouds, and yawn into deep ravines and narrow valleys into which the sun never penetrates, and which are rendered inaccessible by masses of ice and snow that seem never to melt.

like Occurrences 2%

His height was tremendous, his face was black, his mouth yawned like a cavern, his eyes were fountains of blood, his teeth like those of a wild boar, and the hair on his body like needles.

out Occurrences 2%

The weary porter came yawning out of his lamp room into the booking office, where the station master sat alone, his chair turned away from the open wicket window to the smouldering embers of the smoky fire.

to Occurrences 2%

She threatened to him in the middle of his best stories, smiled quietly when he preached, yawned to his poetical recitations, left the room when he sang, mistook the subjects of his sketches with a verisimilitude of innocence that often deceived even himself, was silent and sneered much whenever he was present.

beneath Occurrences 2%

I had lost at a blow everything that gives zest or meaning to life, but I might still be spared the bottommost depth of miserybe saved the utterance of the word which would sink that erring but delicate soul into the hell yawning beneath her.

under Occurrences 1%

"You're the modern Nero, playing golf while the earthquake yawns under London.

as Occurrences 1%

But," flinging his arms wide and yawning as though weary of the subject, "that is work for to-morrow.

without Occurrences 1%

The old stakes?' 'No, I am done for to-night,' Sir George answered yawning without disguise. 'What!

at Occurrences 1%

Thus did the gentle Hind her fable end, 1290 Nor would the Panther blame it, nor commend; But, with affected yawnings at the close, Seem'd to require her natural repose: For now the streaky light began to peep; And setting stars admonish'd both to sleep.

on Occurrences 1%

Though there were no clouds, the sun was invisible: as far as we could see, beyond the Jordan, and away southward to the mountains of Moab and the cliffs of Engaddi, the whole country was covered as with the smoke of a furnace; and the furious sirocco, that threatened to topple us down the gulfs yawning on either hand, had no coolness on its wings.

Which preposition to use with  yawning