looming

At first we went at a dog-trot, but presently slowed down to discuss the future looming portentously ahead of us.

He was rather glad of a possibility, just looming, of his being called away from England through affairs of importance.

Ahead of him rose huge boulders, looming like gigantic tombstones.

But if something of the sort is not looming, never trust me again.

Some distance away, looming up above the nodding heads of trees, were the gables and chimney pots of the squire's residence.

At the immediate moment he had a chance of looming large on the political horizon.

Clarke's forbidding, unrelenting face, looming darkly at Kate's side, was revealed to her in a new and most unpleasant light.

It was that of trained soldiers; and in a short time we saw them looming through the gloom of the evening.

Icebergs were now constantly seen, some being of very considerable dimensions, and looming in the distance like real islands.

Yet, overborne with its looming grandeur, his heart grew heavy with suspense, and he clung close to Asriel.