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  • We're on a misty riverbank, with lush, flowering trees and towering storybook castles in the background.
  • Towering convective clouds rained down a hailstorm of ash, and firebrands even spanned the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
  • A team of rescue Sherpa evacuated the two men down through the towering seracs and debris to Base Camp where they were quickly flown to Kathmandu by helicopter.
  • Everywhere I turned there were immense trees towering above me, rainbows of exotically coloured blooms, and thick dark carpets of creeping moss.
  • That night, we anchored in Geneviz Limani - the Bay of the Genoese - and dined on the poop deck as the moon rose and the sound of the lapping tide echoed against the towering cliffs.
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  • Vicky Fox, a towering transwoman with yellow hair and brown skin, hurls herself dramatically onto the floor and begins contorting about on the weathered tile when I ask to take her picture. Down and Delirious in Mexico City
  • My faith, the very name begets a towering conceit wherever it goes," he answered, and he brought his stick down on the floor with such vehemence that the emerald and ruby rings rattled on his shrunken fingers. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
  • Walking into its corridors, between the towering whiteness, has the effect, so beloved of the Romantics, of making you feel microcosmic.
  • The big Serb held firm and pulled one back with a towering header. The Sun
  • The corn that grows from the ground reached over his small body, the leaves tickled his shirtless body as he passed through the towering rows.
  • If he were a teacher, and not a senior White House adviser and the towering former chairman of the Federal Reserve, he says, he would have given the new rules just an ordinary B -- not even a B-plus. Paul Volcker Gives Financial Reform Bill 'B Minus,' Regrets Past Silence On Deregulation
  • A fashion fact: the chopine was a 15th-century platform shoe that, on occasion, rose to a towering 30 inches, requiring madam to walk with a cane or simply a servant - a cane with legs? The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Oroveso to the Druidical chorus, was a muscular spinster, fierce and forty, sporting steel spectacles, a frizette of the most scrupulous honesty, and a towering comb which formed what the landscape-gardeners call "an object" in the distance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
  • This mass of towering, buckled stone and fluted snow is the most unaccommodating zone on Earth, and the painter, in his own words, is ‘not trying to force an egotistical or mystical image upon it’.
  • Her landscapes range from sweeping panoramas in oils of mountains, lakes and towering coniferous trees to tropical beaches with bold greens and spirited blues.
  • The completed building is a towering rectangular block with almost no decoration, an austere statement and bold break away from the traditional methods of architectural adornment.
  • As Nigel just said, Jerry retired from the telethon this year, but of course, he's here with us in spirit and in heart, and we will continue to be energized and inspired by what I like to call his towering example," Carl said. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • It is the towering, 103-foot cross atop city parkland that landed the measure on the ballot in the first place.
  • There was suddenly a huge woman in a white wrap dress printed with huge red watercolor roses towering over him.
  • You can see the building outlines and archaeologists have reconstructed the barracks and towering gatehouse. The Sun
  • He was surrounded by tall skyscrapers, their towering heights lost in the inky blackness of a night sky.
  • The elderly couple stared up at the towering weathered granite, a huge monolith that lay across the desert country like a recumbent lion.
  • Towering over East Main Street, the elegant nine-story landmark has been plagued by financial instability since it opened in 1925.
  • In size there is the difference between the huge _terminalia_ towering up 200 feet high and the tiny little potentilla; between the atlas moth 12 inches in spread and the hardly discernible midges; between the elephant, massive enough to trample its way through the densest forest, and the humble little mouse peeping out of its hole in the ground. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty
  • Their reward was a seat in the top tier of this towering stadium, so high up that they needed binoculars, but what the hell. Times, Sunday Times
  • Out of towering brown churches came the blithe music of anthems from the choirs.
  • All around are rugged hills cloaked in towering pine trees and alive with hives. The Sun
  • Building codes are routinely ignored to produce towering, fragile, overcrowded structures. Times, Sunday Times
  • The towering pine and cypress trees defy frost and snow.
  • The towering plant, identified by its white-flowered weeds, spreads fast and causes itching and skin discoloration that can last for as long as one year, the Chicago Tribune reported. Hogweed Invading Midwestern States | Impact Lab
  • The reception began under towering oak trees strung with lights, next to a fire pit.
  • But playing mixed presenting doubles with Sue Barker will probably be a doddle for the towering hardbody, who effortlessly sails through one of the busiest schedules in sports broadcasting.
  • Towering mountains surround the village and the area around St Anton is fantastic for walking.
  • Towering over the monastery is the peak of Jebel Musa “the Mountain of Moses” in Arabic, which was identified, as early as the Byzantine period, with Mount Sinai. The Bible Unearthed
  • The result is a master class of lyricism topped by that inimitable voice in towering form and just the right smattering of cheese. The Sun
  • After a towering figure has passed from the stage, it is always difficult to discover what he was like before his rise to prominence. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
  • Sky flower is a common name for golden dewdrop, a towering shrubby perennial with pendulous clusters of white, lavender or purple flowers followed by golden berries.
  • But the young man was prepared, and turning he ran with the swiftness of a hare toward the nearest tree, a huge, arboraceous fern towering upon the verge of the little clearing. The Eternal Savage
  • The monument's signature towering monoliths, spires, and steep canyons reflect millions of years of erosion, faulting, and tectonic plate movement.
  • Her sudden towering rages were terrifying.
  • As he looked up at the tall, hard-muscled man towering over him, Jahdo felt the world turn all swimmy. A TIME OF WAR
  • He was in a towering rage about his lost watch.
  • The city of Taos lies on the edge of the high desert in the Carson National Forest, amid squat juniper trees, prickly scrub grasses and towering evergreens.
  • In a taxi in Mumbai, she sat quietly on the back seat awestruck by the towering buildings almost touching the sky on either side of the road.
  • Mountain towering steep, cliff as cut, the first peak song ru horizon.
  • And now, as we emerge from the pine-wood, a new Dolomite – a huge, dark, mournful-looking mountain ominously splashed with deep red stains – rises suddenly into towering prominence upon our left, and seems almost to overhang the road. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
  • Towering above the frankly nondescript suburbs of a frankly nondescript town, the Big Swan stadium was visible from miles away.
  • He came to a skidding halt before the Saxons and they cowered in fear before his towering rage. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • We looked up at the rocky peaks towering above us.
  • Today, its exquisite towering antique stained glass windows are broken and covered in layers of dust, its walls are cracked and peeling and the weak wooden balcony cannot support a choir anymore.
  • Over 160 years in the making, Trebah now contains glades of subtropical ferns, towering bamboo and magnificent specimen trees, as well as rhododendrons and magnolias in spring.
  • He was in a towering rage.
  • A welling, rising, towering rage roared straight up out of the core of Cynthia Maidstone, filling her with a cold, crackling energy so intense she felt that she could point her fingers and chill lighting would coruscate from their tips. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • He was surrounded by tall skyscrapers, their towering heights lost in the inky blackness of a night sky.
  • Both hit towering sixes over long-off when Samit Patel gave the ball some air. Somerset 156-6; Nottinghamshire 144-7 | Clydesdale Bank 40 match report
  • None knows when he departs from his home in the morning with his gun, ammunition, and alpen-stock, if he will ever return from the mysterious misty heights towering before him far aloft in the clouds. Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
  • He, a towering political figure in New York for decades, had already pushed through a network of parkways in the downstate metropolitan area and Long Island well before the advent of World War II.
  • The view from the high ground includes endless chains of towering mountains, running from horizon to horizon.
  • The garden was in a yard about thirty meters by sixty, surrounded by the towering curtain wall with inward-facing crenellations.
  • Bottlebrushes, gums and lillypillies, too numerous to mention here, also include splendid specimens of towering proportions in their genera.
  • Gone are the towering heels of last summer, to be replaced by thick-tongued brogues, clunky flatforms and Birkenstock-style sandals.
  • Towering over the viewer, it is an imposing icon, with a size and status which at the time would have been customary for portraits of the aristocracy or gentry.
  • To the boy's surprise, it spread a pair of tan and gold wings that were prodigious in size, which caused it to appear as if it were towering over him.
  • Caledor flew into a towering rage and dismissed their fears as groundless.
  • Andorra, which is located between Spain and France, is a rugged land with deep valleys and towering mountains. The EDM SuperBlog
  • It is the towering, 103-foot cross atop city parkland that landed the measure on the ballot in the first place.
  • Amidst the current bunch of nonentities, he is a towering figure.
  • Piett thought he was out of earshot, but the disparagement was still heard by Bossk, a towering reptilian humanoid and skilled predator.
  • The path winds through a legion of eerie stone figures, some towering 100 feet above.
  • Experience the ancient mystical city of Ho Chi-Minh and its Eastern traditions, Buddha temples, towering pagodas and colorful oriental river markets.
  • Towering over the run-down streets of Hawaiian Gardens, the casino sports a 10-foot-high volcano that smolders and periodically spits out fire.
  • He indicated a colossal towering figure, easily thirteen foot high, meandering towards us along the wide roads.
  • He saw himself as a titan, a giant among his peers, towering above the rest of the pack.
  • The road here is quiet, overlooked by towering fir trees, with a peace that contributes to the sense that this is hallowed ground. Times, Sunday Times
  • In summer it stood in the midst of a waving garden of buttercups and whiteweed, a towering mass of verdant leafage, a shelter from the sun and a refuge from the storm; a cool, splendid, hospitable dome, under which the weary farmer might fling himself, and gaze upward as into the heights and depths of an emerald heaven. The Village Watch-Tower
  • Aeons ago, rivers of ice carved out the unforgettable landforms - knife-edge ridges, hanging valley, and towering peaks, every view a visual aria.
  • This is perhaps because the later accretions are somewhat dwarfed amid the towering Gothic architecture.
  • Next door is a towering log, stone and glass masterpiece modeled after a Native American longhouse that may be the most dramatic place you've ever taken a yoga class.
  • He can cut loose, smash and wallop the ball for towering sixes and delightful fours.
  • But if we build upon "the sands" of fame or self-aggrandizement, and, like the towering oak, lift our insignificant heads in proud defiance of the coming storm, we may expect that our superstruction will fall! Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West
  • It boasts medieval pink buildings that perch miraculously atop towering white limestone cliffs at Corsica's most southern tip. The Sun
  • The overcast sky and the foggy shoreline sandwiched the towering city behind them whilst the four travelers made their way down the beach to the water.
  • Across the valley, towering above you, is the snow-covered dome of Mont Blanc, glaciers tumbling down its northern face –and the razor-sharp ‘needles’ of several aiguilles, set in a jagged line across the southern horizon.
  • But very mournful was that fast day at Mizpeh, as the Jews looked along the hillside to their own holy mountain crowned by no white marble and gold Temple flashing back the sunbeams, but only with the tall castle of their enemies towering over the precipice. A Book of Golden Deeds
  • Plopped down about the meadow, and rimming it, are towering blobs of rock that resemble huge piles of modeling clay.
  • We passed through the blue-caverned space, crossed the narrow arch that spanned the rushing sea stream, and, ascending, stood again upon the ivoried pave at the foot of the frowning, towering amphitheatre of jet. The Moon Pool
  • Its plaza principal is a huge site surrounded by towering structures.
  • But Eusebius, who was still in towering wrath, refused to withdraw what he had said, and endeavoured to thrust his schedule of gravamina into the Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
  • We dove at 100 feet amid coral pinnacles towering above us in arches and caves. Greenbacks in Mexico? Don't leave home without them
  • The first wore a white silk, called a polonaise, forming a flowing robe, open to the waist; the pink sash was six inches wide, and filled with spangles; the shoes and stockings were also spangled, and, above all, arose a towering head-dress, filled with a profusion of pearls and jewels; the veil was spangled, and edged with silver lace. My Lady of Doubt
  • The colour color comes from tannin that seeps from towering cypress Spanish moss.
  • Secondly, to the west of this mountain wilderness, stretching upwards from the sea in a wedge form between the Brahui highlands and the group of towering peaks which enclose the Hingol river and abut on the sea at Malan, are the alluvial flats and delta of the Purali, forming the little province of Las Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
  • Let me understand one of your conclusions, root and all, and all in all, and such is the gracious plan of oneness in the branching and leafage and uptowering, that I must know and name the tree. The Kempton-Wace Letters
  • It is broad daylight, and the Professor is peering through rain-soaked windows at towering black canyons so tall they blot out the sky.
  • When the pope spoke at Aida refugee camp nearby, he called the towering wall Israel built around Palestinian areas a symbol of "stalemate. Undefined
  • I gazed at the wine red brick buildings standing upon the hills, towering overhead.
  • Azalea, violets and towering monkshood blended with the coastal wildflowers.
  • Motionless at the edge of the ravine, they were miles from the city and the wide flat river that snaked into the glow, the sun going gray, smoldering in a towering heap of dust like a cloudbank. Excerpt: The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux
  • Join us for five days of hiking around Uncompahgre and Wetterhorn Peaks, complete with deep valleys, rocky eminences, alpine tundra, and towering mountains.
  • With two out in the fourth, the Yanks had Shane Spencer on second and Scott Brosius on first when Alfonso Soriano hit a towering pop fly in front of home plate.
  • Seen from afar, its towering buildings beckon the visitor in.
  • The towering man with short white hair walked quickly down the sidewalk as he spoke.
  • Willie Ryan in the Portarlington back-line was a towering influence and had a great game.
  • Their slightest charities aggrandized, their failings easily forgiven and forgotten, inculpable colossi towering over their lessers, imposing themselves and shattering lives with a casual indifference born of self-affected ambition. Masked
  • For the uninitiated, the book is a good primer for those readers seeking an introduction to the work of this towering American intellectual.
  • While the factory's existence is unmissable by its towering chimney that dominates the skyline, the location of its chalk quarry near the White Horse is rather more hidden.
  • The hall is lit by numerous great torch torches, towering over the tables on tripods.
  • The formidable royal castle towering above the Danube still breathes the air of this era.
  • The Himalayas, towering as high as 8,854 m above sea level, form the highest continental mountains in the world.
  • Modelled on St. Peter's basilica in Rome, its façade is defined by Corinthian pilasters and a pediment, with a great central dome towering over them.
  • He came to a skidding halt before the Saxons and they cowered in fear before his towering rage. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • Here the land slopes down to the sea, forming complicated estuaries with the towering mountains of Achill Island just offshore.
  • Robert Moses, a towering political figure in New York for decades, had already pushed through a network of parkways in the downstate metropolitan area and Long Island well before the advent of World War II.
  • South-west, the long spurs of Molli and Catsuperri, each crowned with convents or temples, descended from Singalelah; and parallel to them on the south; but much longer and more lofty, was the great mountain range north of the Kulbait, with the temples and convents of Pemiongchi, and Changachelling, towering in the air. Himalayan Journals — Complete
  • It was now extremely dark as the towering, derelict offices clouded away the sky.
  • Emphasis is taken from the towering edifice and transferred to the ledges, curbs, benches and other ground-level surfaces that surround it.
  • He told me about nebulae, towering clouds of luminous gas which float through space like vast jellyfish. RESCUING ROSE
  • From Moab, they will drive to Monument Valley, famous for the towering red buttes and mesas, which have formed the background for countless westerns.
  • Guess what classic, towering German torten I brought for dessert, attempting to navigate through the crowded buses and hectic sidewalks of Paris?
  • We can imagine Harald, then 51, towering over the battlefield, fighting the English to the last, outnumbered and underequipped, his giant battleaxe glinting with the spilled blood of his enemies. The Last Viking Warrior | Heretical Ideas Magazine
  • He passed her a black and white riverscape of towering cliffs on either hand and a cascade of water that seemed to fall from the heavens to dwarf the tiny figures of half-naked men and boats in the foreground. The Seventh Scroll
  • They've filled their almost-claustrophobic room with towering flower bouquets and perhaps a few too many obsequious waiters.
  • Towering stilettos from Sergio Rossi or Diego Dolcini are studded with Swarovski crystals, bugle beads or paillettes, often on luxurious fabrics such as satin or even alpaca.
  • Such towering strength can go with a certain limitation of sensibility, but hardly here. Times, Sunday Times
  • The narrow paths are totally overhung by the branches of moss-covered trees and eventually open onto sheep pastures dominated by towering Scots Pines.
  • Do you see that mountain towering directly south of us?" he asked. Further Adventures of Nils
  • You're filth, you're cack, you're the ooze of a burst boil; I abominate you, you towering mound of corrupted slime. James Gordon Brown on markets and spinning facts.
  • Vast wildernesses filled with snow-capped mountains, gushing rivers, great lakes and towering fir trees. The Sun
  • It was well worth the detour, as they have a very nice museum with impressive mounted skeletons of an entelodont, a towering chalicothere, and some smaller denizens of the Miocene savannah.
  • For ever since I saw that birthday cake - towering and tall - I have never been able to replicate its height.
  • Eventually the crumbling brick and wood houses of the alleyways gave way to the great space of the mosque, its massive dome towering above us.
  • Plopped down about the meadow, and rimming it, are towering blobs of rock that resemble huge piles of modeling clay.
  • As if to literalize the longing of the title, a breathtakingly extended axle-like element joins a towering wheel to a tall woven hive shape.
  • Jessie then found himself aboard The Moonlight, the slaver with its towering sails and masts, cabins and storage space under the deck.
  • They are traitors who have committed towering crimes and deserve more than death.
  • Approaching it from this side you pass through a dense bryanthus-fringed grove of mountain hemlock, catching glimpses now and then of the colossal dome towering to an immense height above the dark evergreens; and when at last you have made your way across woods, wading through azalea and ledum thickets, you step abruptly out of the tree shadows and mossy leafy softness upon a bare porphyry pavement, and behold the dome unveiled in all its grandeur. The Yosemite National Park
  • Two towering waves crashed across the bows of the global shipping trade this month. Times, Sunday Times
  • Lightning struck out of the towering cloudbank.
  • An old upright Yankee patrician, a very gentle man in the office of secretary of war, one Henry Stimson, told the president of his good fortune in having for the job a soldier of such towering eminence.
  • Each tries to outdo the other and some of them are towering edifices.
  • But this tall, straight-backed man was also known as the ‘Towering Inferno ‘and withering self-criticism prevented him from fulfilling himself.’
  • If towering long irons and fairway woods are the goal, I'm afraid no ball will restore your ego.
  • Her towering friend abruptly became more animated, seeing Maria entering the room and strolling over to her pigeonhole where an abundance of documents were stacked.
  • This is perhaps because the later accretions are somewhat dwarfed amid the towering Gothic architecture.
  • Christ, the Grand Inquisitor, seated as judge; his familiars standing by ready with their implements of torture to fulfil his bidding; his fellow monks enthroned around him; his sign, the crucifix, towering from hell to heaven in sight of the universe; the whole heretical world, dressed in the sanbenito, helpless before him, awaiting their doom? The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
  • It was again, "All hands up anchor," to proceed up the Canton River, and away we steered, past the towering island of Lin-tin, towards the Bocca Tigris. Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas
  • During the early hours of Sunday vandals overturned the towering scaffolding outside the school, causing flags and poles to crash into the road.
  • He came to a skidding halt before the Saxons and they cowered in fear before his towering rage. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • Steep, heavily wooded slopes and towering waterfalls rushed down to the river bottom, where the sparkling flood mirrored the mountains and sky above.
  • It boasts medieval pink buildings that perch miraculously atop towering white limestone cliffs at Corsica's most southern tip. The Sun
  • City" is sometimes described as atonal, but perhaps "supertonal" might be a better term, it seems to exist in every key and every tempo at the same: great, towering, unresolved dissonances the size of the Chrysler building are constructed right in front of you and then tumble to the ground "watch out for flying glass! The Jazz Scene: Birthdays and Mermaids
  • U.S. tariffs these days are nothing compared with the towering levies of yesteryear—less than 5% on dutiable imports versus 45% in 1930. Heavy Duty
  • The enormous skyscrapers and attendant monorails were supplanted by palaces and town houses circumscribed by high walls, towering railings and tall trees.
  • Their great pale grey slopes are breached all along the coast by a number of steep, rocky gorges with towering vertical walls.
  • My guide tells me she has arranged more adventure activities, this time in the desert - and images of red canyons, towering rock formations and gangs of desperados comes to mind.
  • The deserts are similarly cloying and sticky, although a couple of them (the passion-fruit-meringue pie and a towering, three-decker coconut flan) are compulsively edible.
  • Your back garden is full of majestic redwood trees, towering high above you.
  • At a towering two metres tall, her portrait dominates one of the principal rooms of the National Gallery of Scotland with an imperial presence.
  • Protesters stood in groups below the towering tree-houses in the remote wooded area, talking about the death and continuing to express their determination to stop the hillside being quarried.
  • A towering castle of mud has screaming faces and gargoyles sculpted into its crenellated turrets.
  • In the restaurant, the wood furniture is starkly black, the walls are a cool celadon green, and the towering banquettes on one side of the room appear to have been molded from some dark, plasticized material by Prada.
  • While, as towering buildings, churches even today have an intrinsic power, this exists because of their architecture rather than in the meaning they might convey to us.
  • The color comes from tannin sips seeps from tailoring towering cypress trees draped in Spanish moss.
  • The gardens include one of the largest collections of towering champion trees in this area, accented with lush under-story plantings, water features, and displays of orchids, calatheas, and other unique plants.
  • The welcoming committee is pure science fiction, a towering wind energy farm of sleek white windmills, five storeys high and filling the valley's entire widescreen width.
  • When the towering pinnacles of Ben Mor and the Karakora Ranges loomed up across the spume, all aboard felt relief.
  • He woke up to find he was being battered by towering waves in the Indian Ocean and the boat was motoring away from him into the night. Times, Sunday Times
  • Wooden chalets, fields, towering mountains. Times, Sunday Times
  • The skyline is dotted with towering cranes, hovering like hawks.
  • The Cyclopes, too, were gigantic, towering up like mighty mountain crags and devastating in their power.
  • More prosaically, the Kombai tribe in remote Papua New Guinea swamps hoist their dwellings as much as 30m up towering sago palms to avoid enemies and repel mosquitoes.
  • This area is dominated by great clumps of timber bamboo towering 50 feet or more in height next to a grove of Asian fruits such as lychee, rambutan and star fruit. Naples Daily News Stories
  • Towering over the town was Turtle Mountain, a massive hulk of limestone and shale layered with veins of coal in its core.
  • The beach here is spectacular, curving gently round the bay under a towering, wild headland.
  • The world's largest economy has always been a towering influence over the direction of world stock markets.
  • There he will create a towering bronze armature to which various body parts, heroic in size, will be affixed.
  • Most show Obama as a world leader, bestriding the global stage – towering over Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel in one, clinking beers with David Cameron in another. Barack Obama's down but not out
  • It wasn't the normal, dark, towering building, but a tall, skinny, grayish color that looked like it had rotted from the inside.
  • In the center of the parking lot was a towering white building, casting a shadow like a gargantuan sundial.
  • No, today is a day to celebrate the towering human spirit that exists in this one woman.
  • Here is Prometheus, the rebel: nail him to the rock; secure him on this towering summit fast in the unyielding grip of adamantine chains.
  • Eventually the Scot flew away in the closing stages to pursue the four survivors of an escape which had hightailed it south among the towering rock pinnacles of the Col de l' Izoard.
  • Atop the mountain, more towering buildings reach up into a polluted blue sky.
  • The towering coco colada is mixed with icy bits and chunks of fruits.
  • They were hard at work there far into the night, and the towering pillar of dense green smoke that rose therefrom could be seen from the hills about Merrow, and even, it is said, from Banstead and Epsom Downs. The War of The Worlds
  • THEY are some of the most towering figures in British history. The Sun
  • Hidden amidst the towering buildings at the outermost edge of the city lay a small, ratty karaoke bar that seems to seek shelter from the raging thunderstorm, its shingled roof rattling harshly.
  • I began to take photographs of the food on the table, the champagne flutes towering behind the chocolate truffles that I was already dying to eat.
  • Far ahead of us, the trees thickened into a forest that enveloped the slopes of a huddle of dismal, mist-shrouded mountains crouching in the shadows of the towering Swabian Alps.
  • But then we got here and I saw how your own brethren in the Order have failed to appreciate your towering nobility.
  • The earth movers are towering, terrifying machines, bigger than most of the concrete shanty houses they were sent in to destroy.
  • On one side it was anchored by a huge chinaberry tree, on the other by a towering mimosa.
  • In those days Peter wore his rue — whether for lady fair or for towering prospects stricken down — with a tinge of wan melancholy not unbecoming to a gentle aquilinity of profile, softened by the grace of adolescence. Judith of the Plains
  • After a scenic tour down to Zermatt, past towering seracs and gaping crevasses, we got another helicopter ride up to the ridge.
  • The best way to see it is on foot, along the five-day Druk Path between Paro and Thimpu, camping against a backdrop of towering snowcaps.
  • And, amidst the towering peaks of the Worldspine, a dragon has freed itself from bondage and plots to free all of dragonkind from humanity's yoke once and for all. The King of the Crags by Stephen Deas
  • Above the Griffon Gate a towering griffon five hundred feet high seemed to leap from the mountain.
  • But they are now delighted after watching its dramatic growth with the "beanstalk" now standing at a towering 14ft1in after growing 10 feet in just four weeks. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • Lord Howe is a ring of land some one hundred and fifty miles in circumference, several hundred yards wide at its widest, and towering in places to a height of ten feet above sea level. MAUKI
  • He finished the stencils in two hours, and, feeling a towering strength in his heretofore ordinary frame, immediately carried them upstairs to the mimeograph machine.

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