There was a tract of yellow sunset sky to westward, a faint new moon half swathed in mist above, and over all the north a huge towered thundercloud kept flashing distant lightnings.
The Castle towered up rosy-red and shadowy sombre, enshrined, embosomed in those purple clouds; and momently ran lightning forks like rapiers through the growing mass.
The emergence of towered cities into sunlight at the skirts of moving shadows, the liquid lapse of rivers half disclosed by windings among woods, the upturned mirrors of unruffled lakes, are wanting to the sea.
The place had certainly not been cleaned down for years, and no wonder they had been suspicious of the stability of that chimney which towered so high towards the murky sky.
On either hand towered mighty peaks thousands of feet higher than the pass through which they were entering the forbidden valley.
From the saturnalia in progress outside came another swirl of sound seeming to lap mockingly against the motionless figure of zu Pfeiffer silhouetted against a green sky; and above him towered the idol leaning sideways.
On each side of the tent door stood the two tallest men in the companies, coal-black forms which towered above the slighter build of the Wongolo, as rigid and as silent as trees.
Both stern and bow rose in a graceful curve, while the stem often towered high in air--a perpendicular beam of teak most richly carved into elaborate designs of the quaintest and most eerie character.
Tall pines, here and there towered high and lonely over the surrounding trees.
Alle fresh the level pasture lay, And not a shadowe mote be seene, Save where full fyve good miles away The steeple towered from out the greene; And lo!
I could make out that we were gradually rising, and that the rocks towered up to a great height left and right; but though I rode with every sense upon the strain, I could neither hear nor see sign of the enemy.
The light from the window of the hut was at last really visible, shimmering through the darkness, and soon the benighted travellers stood under the snowy crags which towered above the little shieling.
A more striking difference between this two-century-old settlement and the ones up-country was the presence of the two huge adobe churches which towered among the hovels, all the more imposing for the contrast.
The bottom of this tremendous gorge was almost filled with the foaming, roaring torrent of the river, while on either side the cliffs towered skyward in sheer, precipitous precipices, thousands of feet high.
High towered the palace and its massive pile, Made dubious if of nature or of art, So wild and so uncouth; yet, all the while, Shaped to strange grace in every varying part.
The three gazed at the immense mass, which filled the greater part of one end of the laboratory and towered almost to the skylights.
She looked at the block again, as it towered there above them, as though she expected it to open and the monster of the coolies' imagination leap out.
She turned upon him, drawing herself up, and although she was short and Adrian was tall, of a sudden he felt as though she towered over him.
There were fifty covers laid; in the middle and at either end were shallow baskets, full of flowers; between these towered tall epergnes, filled to overflowing with crackers in gilded and colored paper.
Senator Voorhees' form towered in the shadow of the cloak-room.
It would, he thought, be far more fitting for Congress to wait until war was over, and see whose head towered above the rest in the army, and then give this crown to the one whose head had risen highest.
The President and Mrs. Lincoln received their guests in the East Room, where he towered above all around him, and had a pleasant word for those he knew.
They went on horseback, General Jackson riding his favorite gray horse, and wearing his high white fur hat with a broad band of black crape, whichtowered above the whole group.
The Grande Place, on which lay the wedge-like shadow of the high-towered Hôtel de Ville, was perhaps as thronged a honeycomb of buzzing populace as when Alva looked out upon it to see the execution of Egmont and Horn.
From the last halt, no inconsiderable height in itself, we mounted continually towards the huge white masses of snow, which so lately towered above us in the distance.
There he paused and pointed dramatically to a great rock that towered above their heads.
No ravenous beast or hideous serpent appeared to threaten the treasure-seekers, however, no enormous shape towered out of the mist to warn them back.
In half an hour from the first alarm, we could plainly discern the blazing vessel with the naked eye, and soon after distinguished the whirling columns of flame as they towered above the masts.
And these trees towered skywards, forming a dark green canopy overhead, that no sunlight could ever penetrate, nor moonlight or star-rays at night.
Great peaks, pitiless and serene in the chill blue, toweredabout them.
About him towered icy peaks unnamed and uncharted.
All about towered great peaks and small, lone sentinels and groups and councils of mighty Titans.
The young chief came forward, and as he did so the jeers and laughter changed to cries of astonishment and fear, for at each step he grew in size until he towered above them, a giant.
In a whisper he told her that they were watched, and bade her row to a dead pine that towered at the foot of the lake, where he would soon meet her.
The redwoods which towered above him were vast of girth, and it would have needed a long halter to encompass them, while there was no branch for sixty feet or so.
Across the wide inlet, mountain beyond mountain towered against the blueness of the north.
Its topmost sprays towered two hundred feet above them, and the great trunk ran a stupendous column to the vault of dusky green above.
High through the vapour towered smooth walls of stone, and the river that rebounded from them was piled in a white track of foam midway between.
On the one hand the snow towered in awful white purity, on the other scattered firs sloped sharply down into a hollow until they were lost in the fleecy vapours that streamed athwart them.
It towered white and cold against a pale green, shining high above climbing pines and dusky valley, while the fleecy mist crept higher and higher athwart the serried waves of trees that fell to the river hollow.
Some time in the hot autumn a fire had passed that way, and the great treestowered above them, stripped and blackened columns, that seemed to stretch between earth and sky.
The Spanish flagship was the largest ship afloat at the time, and she towered high above her consorts.
Some ships had been sunk on both sides, and a few of the towered warships of the Eastern fleet had been captured by Agrippa, but at the cost of much loss of life.
At noon the fleet was due south of Tsu-shima, which towered like a mountain out of the sea a few miles ahead.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "towered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
