Rising into view

Usage examples of looming.

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

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.

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

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.

Partly in the hope that I could somehow clarify those foggy, clairvoyant perceptions of danger and see exactly what violence lay ahead, and partly because I was determined not to be intimidated by the aura of evil that clung to the big machine, I shrugged off the backpack I had been carrying, unrolled my sleeping bag, and made ready to pass the last hours of the night right there in the faint patchwork of purple-black shadows and ash-gray moonlight, with the wheel looming over me.

He saw Rimmer Dall smile darkly, looming above them both from within a vortex of images.

Drear shadows drooped and thickened above the Pass of Dariel,--that terrific gorge which like a mere thread seems to hang between the toppling frost-bound heights above and the black abysmal depths below,--clouds, fringed ominously with lurid green and white, drifted heavily yet swiftly across the jagged peaks where, looming largely out of the mist, the snow-capped crest of Mount Kazbek rose coldly white against the darkness of the threatening sky.

Father, mother, and all his brethren, except little Katty, were vanished out of it, and as it came looming back to him thus depeopled, its aspect was immeasurably desolate.

Whether he was baring them at his brother, or the loss he could feel looming, Deuce was not sure.

Monstrous fine women they were to be sure, looming up over him in the dimmety light, and two or three of them tall as Grenadiers.

Looming upon him was a man whose face Fant recognized, in the moment of life that remained to him.

Fortunately the sight of Farad looming over him seemed to strike the man mute.

And so Crown Prince Vindax flew on to Ninar Foan, a bleak and forbidding castle looming over a drab town, its rough stone walls swept by the chill winds of the Rand and lit by a reluctant red sun.

The possible need for space flight was, after all, always looming above them, though every Second Foundationer hoped the need would arise only infrequently.

The print shows a big cryptameria tree, Fuji looming behind it, crowned with smoke.