Towered

Examples

• About noon I dragged myself wearily to the portals of a huge building which covered perhaps four square miles and towered two hundred feet in the air. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The head of the topmost warrior towered over forty feet from the ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Tars Tarkas, whose giant stature towered high above the rest of us, could see the farthest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The fellow towered nearly sixteen feet in height, while Kantos Kan was some inches under six feet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The way wound through enchanted parks to a mighty wall that towered a hundred feet in air. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Still the same lofty domes and minarets towered above the verdurous walls, where Constantine had died, and the Turk had entered the city. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The juggernaut on his car towered there a grim load. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• These perfect in their little parts, Whose work is all their prize-- Without them how could laws, or arts, Or towered cities rise? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• As far as the eye could reach gorgeous forest and crimson sward skirted a silent sea, and about all towered the brilliant monster guardian cliffs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The man remained standing, with his hands in his pockets, and towered between Clennam and the prospect. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The cliffs towered above me a good five thousand feet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

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