Loomed

Examples

• Here and there a Hatchment, with the whole science of Heraldry in it, loomed down upon the street, like an Archbishop discoursing on Vanity. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Close around them loomed the impenetrable blackness of the jungle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He was dressed in a legal-looking suit of black, and loomed, burly and large, in that small office. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• A great battleship, forging silent and unlighted through the dark night, loomed close astern. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Ahead of him, in the winter night, loomed a big unlit house. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I had lapsed into a stupid state; but I was recovering a little and looking forward to Steerforth, albeit Mr. Creakle loomed behind him. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• No sooner did Roosevelt take the stump than the paradox loomed up before him. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Mr. van der Luyden's figure loomed on the threshold, and Newland Archer went forward to greet his cousin. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• In their imaginations a great and rich city to the south, a sort of confusion of Rome and Byzantium, loomed large. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The house loomed obscure and uninhabited; only an oblong gleam above the door spoke of provisional occupancy. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The sun was not quite upon them and they loomed a dull yellow in their own shade. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It was as though a cold air had dispersed the fumes of his libations, and the situation loomed before him black and naked as the ruins of a fire. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• War with Mexico loomed up on the horizon. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It loomed through the fog like a great barrier to hope. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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