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Usage examples of loom.

The shadow that had loomed behind him resolved itself into the unmistakable form of van Effen, whose right hand curved round and held the aerosol can an inch or two from the .

Usually, she enjoyed getting lost in a throng of art aficionados, eavesdropping on the various off-the-cuff critiques, but just then, the crowd loomed like a threatening swarm.

Beyond the agora, Achamian saw a cohort of birds wheeling above the great domes of the Temple Xothei, whose silhouette loomed above the tenements hedging the north end of the market.

Thoroughly let down, Alec stole a last resentful look at the keep looming over the gorge, then hurried away after the others.

In Eline, die, van een loom en lymfatisch gestel, behoefte gevoelde aan teederen steun en zachtkoesterende warmte, en wier zenuwen, fijn als de vezelen eener bloem, zelfs in hare weeke, als met fluweel gecapitonneerde omgeving dikwijls nog door den minsten tegenstand te ruw werden beroerd en te hevig geprikkeld, ontwikkelde zich uit angst eene terughoudendheid, die haar gemoed vulde met duizenden kleine grieven van heimelijk verdriet.

I felt that the way she was talking would give her a liking for me, and I was satisfied that the man who can give birth to amorous desires is easily called upon to gratify them it was the reward I was ardently longing for, and I dared to hope it would be mine, although I could see it only looming in the distance.

Shapes loomed out of the overcast shadows at Ana, and there was an odd smell in the room.

There is not simply an inquiry as to the value of classic culture, a certain jealousy of the schools where it is obtained, a rough popular contempt for the graces of learning, a failure to see any connection between the first aorist and the rolling of steel rails, but there is arising an angry protest against the conditions of a life which make one free of the serene heights of thought and give him range of all intellectual countries, and keep another at the spade and the loom, year after year, that he may earn food for the day and lodging for the night.

He was arguing with a looming black giant who bore an outsized assagai few other men could have lifted.

March Walvis stirred restlessly inside the rear of the stretch Mercedes which was speeding along the autobahn carrying them to the castle in the mountains whose jagged peaks loomed ahead.

The choicest tapestries which the looms of Arras could furnish draped the walls, whereon the battles of Judas Maccabaeus were set forth, with the Jewish warriors in plate of proof, with crest and lance and banderole, as the naive artists of the day were wont to depict them.

The dark hazy outlines of the low scrubby tree-tops flicked by our wingtips close enough to touch, while ahead of us through the rain-mist an occasional big baobab tree loomed and Louren eased the jet over its greedily clutching branches.

Big in vision, a worldlet hilled and begrown with strangeness, loomed the black hole artifact.

And he saw something else, dimly through the smoke--a giant black man, looming against the red glare like a black devil stalking out of hell.

As the taximan drove towards Bunchy he saw another figure in an overcoat and top-hat loom through the mist and stand beside him.