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Towering   /tˈaʊərɪŋ/  /tˈaʊrɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Tower  v. t.  To soar into. (Obs.)


Tower  v. i.  (past & past part. towered; pres. part. towering)  To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar. "On the other side an high rock towered still." "My lord protector's hawks do tower so well."


adjective
Towering  adj.  
1.
Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height.
2.
Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing. "A man agitated by a towering passion."





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"Towering" Quotes from Famous Books



... civilized enough to use the energy hidden in ordinary matter. The time will come when atomic energy will take the place of coal as a source of power." The man who spoke thus before the Royal Society of Arts in London was Sir Oliver Lodge—one of the towering figures in modern science, a man who has devoted the better part of his life to the study and interpretation of the atom. This new form of energy, which our great-grandchildren may utilize instead of oil and ...
— The Planet Mars and its Inhabitants - A Psychic Revelation • Eros Urides and J. L. Kennon
... Capri from the main, hauling round into the Bay of Naples, intending to anchor in the berth she had left the previous day. The night was too dark to permit an object small as a boat to be seen at any distance, but the black mass of Capri was plainly visible in its outlines, towering into the air near two thousand feet; while the formation of the coast on the other side might be traced with tolerable certainty and distinctness. Such was the state of things when the five boats ...
— The Wing-and-Wing - Le Feu-Follet • J. Fenimore Cooper
... spring, all the desolate Arizona waste around him was transformed by the splendour of dawn. Up out of mysterious velvety blue-black valleys loomed the massive purple-walled fortresses and cities of the mountain giants, guarded by titanic skyward towering pyramids and turrets of exquisite ...
— Bloom of Cactus • Robert Ames Bennet
... The wild cliffs of the eastern region where Peniel lay, or the savage fastnesses in the southern wilderness, a day's march from Hebron, where he lived so long, came back to his memory amid the flat, clay land of Egypt; and their towering height, their immovable firmness, their cool shade, their safe shelter, spoke to him of the unalterable might and impregnable defence which he had found in God. So there is in this name the same devout, reflective laying-hold ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers • Alexander Maclaren
... a voice as hearty as the kiss, and Patty, with a wild spring, jumped from the encircling arms, and turned to face a towering giant, who, she knew at ...
— Patty's Butterfly Days • Carolyn Wells


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