beetling

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Beetling his forested brows, John L. Lewis strode majestically into the Senate Labor Committee's hearing room last week to testify on the proposed amendments to the Taft-Hartley law.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beetling precipices shut off the direct light of the moonbeams and left the abyss again in dense darkness long before the coming of the laggard dawn.

From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by Brehm, George

Beetling rocks reared high above his head, just discernible in the gloom, for it was night.

From Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt by Mitford, Bertram

Haven here Was none for ships, nor sheltering creek, but shores Beetling from high, and crags and walls of rock.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry

Above no pinion cleaves its way,    Save when the eagle’s wing, as now,    With sweep imperial shades thy brow Beetling and grey.

From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar