Fay, "rose this beetling face of dark rock, with little snow patches here and there revealing possible stations, between which only cracks and slight protuberances offered scanty holds for foot and hand.
Down midst the dead He fell, as fails a beetling mountain-cliff.
There was the Titan Iapetus' great son Hung from the beetling crag of Caucasus In bonds of adamant, and the eagle tare His liver unconsumed--he seemed to groan!
No unguided footstep ever came upon that vale; for it lay away up among a range of giant hills that hung beetling around about it, shutting out the sunlight from its sweetest recesses.
Tis sheltered from the ocean's roar By beetling crags and foam-girt rifts, And mossy trees, that ages hoar Have braved the sea-gales on its cliffs!
We lay in the deep shadow of a beetling precipice of such immense altitude, that the snow-white morning clouds, as they floated onward, like messengers from heaven, swept its summit.
A moment, and I again saw him on the beetling rocks, whence the female had just disappeared; then he, too, was lost in the darkness.
Then, beetling again on the dead, he forecast the verdict of the sheriff's jury.
Sternly from his bed he starts, And with rude, repulsive shock, Hurls her from the beetling rock.
Superstition has wrapped the beetling cliff and the gloomy ravine in her dark embrace, for here the captive toils in the bowels of the earth to procure the stubborn iron.
Repeated blows from a heavy stone detached the great crescent horns from the beetling brow; and these, with the ears, hoofs, and tufted tail, we bore off as trophies to be laid at the royal footstool.
Started at last and marched up the valley, which narrowed considerably here, under the shadow of beetling cliffs, for about eight miles, with incessant momentary halts, as always happens in the rear of a column.
Weird mountain ranges crossed our path And frowned on us in seeming wrath; Their beetling crags and icy brows Well might a hundred fears arouse.
In fact, this morning in spite of severe provocation they don't seem to be beetling at all.
Their appearance in distant view is singularly picturesque, perched lightly upon the pinnacles of towering cliffs, beetling over the flood, which rushes along two hundred feet below.
The entrance, {43} at first view, is exceedingly imposing; its broad massive forehead beetling over the visiter for some yards before he finds himself within.
His beetling grey brows came down and hid his eyes from the younger man, but those cold blue eyes saw everything.
Adam's thick fingers held the envelope before his eyes, and the beetling grey brows strained lower.
That gallant commander descended from the heights to Wolfe's Cove, and led his division along the shore of the St. Lawrence, round the beetling promontory of Cape Diamond.
The old Commoner scowled, and his beetling brows hid for a moment his eyes.
In the lines which marked the corners of his mouth she could see firmness, and his beetling brows and unusually heavy eyelids looked stern and formidable.
His chin was broad and bold, and his brows beetling and projecting.
The shadow of a pair of beetling brows rolled darkly over me.
It seemed to frown repulsively with its beetling eaves, as I lifted the knocker and let it fall with startling force.
Not a lady-like request," he answered, with a shrewd cast of the eye under his beetling brows.
I did not expect to see this, when I heard you had shut yourself up in the academy again, under the shadow of old Regulus's beetling brows.
He rose majestically as Fischko entered and turned on him a beetling frown.
He had determined, however, to instantly lower the boats and send them off in search of land, when a gust of wind, blowing away the fog, showed a beetlingcliff not a hundred yards away.
And at night in his bed, as Roger stared up at the beetling cliff of apartment windows just outside, drearily he asked himself how it would feel to live like that.
But after a time he opened them and stared long through the window up at the beetling cliff of a building close by, with its tier upon tier of lighted apartments, a huge garish hive of homes.
Turning restlessly on his bed, he would glance out of the window up at the beetling wall close by, tier on tier of apartments from which faint voices dropped out of the dark.
Round here also the stark steepness forbids the existence of even the tiniest track; a hare could not find its way along these beetling cliffs.
Behind Slains runs in a long narrow inlet with beetling cliffs, sheer on either side, and at its entrance a wild turmoil of rocks are hurled together in titanic confusion.
As he spoke the major shot a keen glance from under his beetling old brows at the pair and wisely let the situation develop itself.
The dreaded angle which had haunted de Spain all night was safely turned on hands and knees and, as they rounded it toward the east, clouds scudding over the open desert broke and shot the light of dawn against the beetling arête.
The southern wall, though shrouded, seemed to rise in an unending series of beetling arêtes.
