Towering

Examples

• There was but a single way, and that led through the mighty, towering trees upon our right. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• From the towering lighthouses of our coasts its beams are thrown seaward, and a beacon for the mariner shines beyond all other lights. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• There were towering cliffs on our left, and the pretty Lago di Lecco on our right, and every now and then it rained on us. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The great apes, towering in all their fifteen feet of height, had gone down before my sword while the charging guards were still some distance away. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• We hurried across the ravine and up a winding road, and stood on the old Acropolis, with the prodigious walls of the citadel towering above our heads. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul's towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Malone, being neither good-natured nor phlegmatic, was presently in a towering passion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• When you see the towering crest of the wave, I expect you to take pity. Plato. The Republic.
• Mr. Fang sat silent for some minutes, and then, turning round to the prosecutor, said in a towering passion. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Do look at Humphrey: one might fancy him an ugly archangel towering above them in his white surplice. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Of these latter, Thomas Alva Edison is one, but in the pages of history he stands conspicuously pre-eminent--a commanding towering figure, even among giants. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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