Towering

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tower

(a.) Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height.

(a.) Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing.

录入:厄普顿

• There was but a single way, and that led through the mighty, towering trees upon our right. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• 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. 十九世纪发明进展.
• 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. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• 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. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• 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. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul's towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Malone, being neither good-natured nor phlegmatic, was presently in a towering passion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• When you see the towering crest of the wave, I expect you to take pity. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Mr. Fang sat silent for some minutes, and then, turning round to the prosecutor, said in a towering passion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Do look at Humphrey: one might fancy him an ugly archangel towering above them in his white surplice. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• 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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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