What is "overtower"

Usage examples of "overtower".

Weeping willows and silver firs flanked, overtowered, and shaded the villas.

The chief engineer was of course superior in title, position, pay and authority, but an on-looker would have taken him to be the inferior, simply because he was so overtowered by the phenomenal height and breadth of the redheaded giant he was yelling at.

Then he, too, became a fugitive, passing from one fastness to another of these glens and the mountains that overtowered them.

Cho talked his way through the sequence of images he wondered whether they ever dreamed themselves back there, beneath the vast, overtowering pile of the City.

To her left, in the triangle of wild, uncultivated land between the meadow and the vast, overtowering whiteness of the Wall, the ground grew soft and marshy, veined with streams and pocked with tiny pools.

The huge Pacific seas, extending in unbroken lines sometimes a mile or half as much again in length, hurl themselves upon the reef, overtowering and falling upon it with tremendous crashes, and yet the fragile coral structure withstands the shock and protects the land.

From the little plantation, all the magnificent trees and shrubs of Australia had been excluded with amazing resolution and consistency, and oak and ash reigned safe from overtowering rivals.

The fellow seemed to adore this stone, as well he might, for by its weight and his own overtowering height he had made himself chief of his fellows.

She did not name her father, though his figure was central in her imagination, broad, overtowering, intrepid, imperious.

Under the partial shelter of an overtowering tree, he found a skylight set in a metal frame.

On every side are seen venerable trees overtowering its not unpretentious steeple.

He had seen wonders, all right, but this, this overtowering wall of ice, impressed him most.