Then quite suddenly something big and dark loomed up in front of him.
Yet she did not learn wisdom therefrom but pursued her policy of repression all the more rigorously; for it occasionally came home to her, as Laura let down tucks, that Emily was on the verge of beginning to grow up and that various breakers and reefs loomed ahead, ominously magnified in the mist of unseen years.
" The shape of some monstrous villainy, half seen, half guessed, loomed through the darkness which had girt me so long.
It was warm for September, and the late afternoon had been very foggy; but a full moon had in part lessened the fog and transformed the harbor and the gulf and the surrounding shores into a strange, fantastic, unreal world of pale silver mist, through which everything loomed phantom-like.
Twenty-five miles off the coast terminated in the Claw Cape, which loomed dimly through the morning mists, and which, by the phenomenon of the mirage, appeared as if suspended between land and water.
Twilight came before it was done, and a great pile of things loomed up on her table, with no visible means of repair,—for Molly's work-basket was full of nuts, and her thimble down a hole in the shed-floor, where the cats had dropped it in their play.
Especially did the Queen's class gird up their loins for the fray, for at the end of the coming year, dimly shadowing their pathway already, loomed up that fateful thing known as "the Entrance," at the thought of which one and all felt their hearts sink into their very shoes.
Through it the two enormous pine-trees that clasped hands over Barney's shack loomed out like dark turrets.
It was a very drab existence, but here and there an incident loomed out with a significance out of all proportion to its real importance.
",, Wrapped in his furs and leathers, mounted on his great warhorse, his lord father loomed over him like a giant.
) Whether or not the coach's statement then was somewhat hyperbolic, it's clear that the drug problem has loomed over the sports world for a long time.
Indeed, the further he walked the larger he loomed, until I had to look up to him.
Gradually the night fell blacker; it was all I could do to guide myself even roughly towards my destination; the double hill behind me and the Spy-glass on my right hand loomed faint and fainter; the stars were few and pale; and in the low ground where I wandered I kept tripping among bushes and rolling into sandy pits.
First she loomed before me like a blot of something yet blacker than darkness, then her spars and hull began to take shape, and the next moment, as it seemed (for, the farther I went, the brisker grew the current of the ebb), I was alongside of her hawser and had laid hold.
The Forbidden City, the nine-tiered palace, loomed in the dust From thousands of horses and chariots headed southwest.
So the Island loomed big and timely in Soapy's mind.
