A deep-blue wave, toweringon high and crowned with foam, has washed a charming woman ashore like a costly pearl.
No other artist painted waves more grand, wind-beaten, foaming, dashing, towering on high.
We drove through the Corso as far as the Piazza Colonna, with itstowering column erected by the Senate and the people in honor of your hero Marcus Aurelius, and then by smaller streets and squares to the Porta Capena.
Duke, towering with rage, looked at de Spain and pointed to the hall door.
The little grove spreads across a slope half a mile wide between the base of one towering cliff, still bearing its Spanish name, El Capitan, and the gorge of the Purgatoire.
She took her way rapidly along the trail to the mountain, keeping as much as possible within the great shadows cast by the towering peaks.
De Spain gave his horse his head--it was still too dark to distinguish the path--and depended on his towering landmarks for his general direction.
To the west was a great barren desert, while on every hand were massive sand dunes, some of them towering a hundred feet.
I found the store full of loungers, who patronized the chairs, soap and starch boxes, mackerel kits and counter, forming a silent circle round a towering stove in the center.
After traveling some distance up the valley, the smoke of the Leadville smelters burst into view, and a mile beyond the city itself could be seen nestling against the towering mountains.
A few moments later a well-beaten trail curved southward toward the towering pyramid of rock.
Carson City lay six miles away, close to the Sierra Nevadas, whose towering heights, on the Nevada side, rise abruptly from the plain.
When they saw Damfino with her toweringpack they, too, perhaps, did some wondering.
One early summer day while traveling through a part of this same country, watered by the Willow River, my companion and I stopped in a majestic forest of towering white pine trees, interspersed with the more spreading hemlocks.
He leaned against the door, so towering and powerful that he seemed to fill the narrow room.
Not a solitary sail of any description was visible; they were alone, at the mercy of the towering mountain-surges, and of the gale which howled deafeningly past them.
He guessed at once that the lieutenant had been visiting at "Sea View;" but what struck him as strange was that Walford's appearance and bearing was that of a man in a towering passion.
Certainly, as she looked to-day sitting under the towering trees, it was easy to understand why the King's wife had been named "the gift of the elves.
The sternness that had underlain the King's manner rose slowly and spread over the whole surface of his person, as he drew himself up in towering offence.
Wayfarer after wayfarer looked up half in awe at the iron-faced man towering above them in the stirrups.
Betimes he judged himself not far from the bottom of the valley, for through gaps in the foliage overhead he could see the woods on the further slope towering up magnificently to touch the sky.
Drop lower," was the order of the electrical steersman of the flagship, and as quickly as possible we approached the place where the towering figure stood.
John Thorwald, his blond head toweringover those of his comrades.
Conjure up a vision of Gulliver among the Lilliputians and you can picture him towering over us.
She went to the door and gazed up at the towering wall, more wonderful than ever, and more fearful, too, in her sight.
A bitter wind was blowing through the New York streets, that picked up the dust and drove it in eddies between the great, square-cut, towering buildings.
In one place we passed a gigantic heap of boulders, towering several hundred feet above our heads.
Could the shape which is denoted by the figure of a table be presented by Nature in a more convincing manner than by this mass of rock, towering up above the sea and from the valleys to a summit which is almost perfectly flat?
We were impressed by the sharp distinction between the bottom of this flat area and the banks which, on the one side, were formed by this bulwark and, on the other, by towering cliffs, overgrown with grass.
It is seen for some distance following at the base of a low ridge which culminates further eastwards in the towering parapet behind the town.
The gigantic moose had been just upon the verge of rushing in to silence those incomprehensible and deceiving calls, when the towering form of the bear burst upon his vision.
Behind this formidable head laboured up the mighty humped shoulders and then the whole towering form of a moose-bull.
He had no use for the great beast towering so arrogantly before him, and nothing was further from his thoughts than to put a bullet into that wide-antlered head.
The old man flew into a towering rage, refused even to look at the letter, tore it up into bits, and ordered me never to mention the subject to him again.
It was of brownstone, with a flight of steps mounting steeply to the door, and stood back from the street at the bottom of a cañon formed by the towering walls of the adjacent office buildings.
The appearance of Errington at his bungalow that evening, in a towering rage, told Reinhardt that his scheme had succeeded, but he was scarcely prepared for the completeness of the breach between the friends.
When Gordon would suddenly lift his enormous blue-veined hand high over his head in an impassioned gesture the Deacon cowered unconsciously beneath his towering figure.
Within a generation, the Brooklyn Bridge, a dream in the brain of a man, has spun its spider web of steel across the river, our buildings grown from four stories totowering castles of steel with their flag-staffs in the clouds.
He felt like climbing to the tower of one of those great temples of trade and shouting to the throng to lift up their heads from the stones below and beyond the line of towering steel and granite see the Glory of God.
As he passed the City Hall his eye rested on the towering castles of the metropolitan newspapers.
He stood for a moment towering over her, his feet braced apart, his big hands fiercely locked, his wide chest heaving with the exultant joy of the mastery of her life, his steel-gray eyes sparkling with the insolence of strength.
They would have music, and a dinner spread under the trees of the park which stretched back from the water's edge into the towering hills.
Cut not its earth-bound ties; Oh, spare that agèd oak Now towering to the skies!
It is a ritual investiture; and is akin to those Gorgon masks that stiffened the dances of Greece or those towering mitres that came from the mysteries of Persia.
Sometimes he will pass from a toweringpassion to the most sweeping magnanimity and friendliness; sometimes he will begin an act of vengeance and be turned from it by a jest.
Paint upon primitive darkness some such scenes of apocalypse, towering and gorgeous skyscapes in which champagne falls like fire from heaven or the dark skies grow purple and tawny with the terrible colours of port.
Mid the towering rocks he set my throne, And made me forever and ever his own!
Cornet Fitz-Boodle," said my lord in a towering passion, "from what blackguard did you get that pipe?
His lady is on his arm huge, in towering plumes, and her favorite costume of light blue.
Where a few seconds previously a towering mass of black and red plating rose high above the boats, there hung a cloud of smoke, steam, and spray, while all around the water was thrashed white with foam.
Gradually the towering cliffs enclosing the creek became distinguishable against the loftier background of gaunt hills.
At that instant the sea-plane was visible above the towering sides of the British vessel.
The moon smiled upon them; an owl hooted enviously; Jack softly whistled a strain from Schubert, while Yang made the towering rocks echo and re-echo to the joyous banging of the pistol.
And, turning his back on the audience, he gazed in a sort of agony at the figure of Nelson towering into the sky above him.
His bent figure looked huge, body and legs outlined by light, head and shoulders toweringinto shadow.
