Behind them the bulk of the forest loomed as another barrier.
And presently an object loomed into view, which soon defined itself for a great ship on fire.
The shrubberies loomed big in the violet twilight and afar out the sea lay placid, steel-blue and mysterious.
No one could see across the church, and the minister loomed up, as if in a dense fog; all eyes were fountains of tears.
On one side of her loomed the morose countenance of the Major, on the other she was conscious of the scared, miserable eyes of Vladimir.
Thus, presently, nearly all the village of Beethorpe was making its way up the hill to where those three horsemen loomed against the evening sky.
All her imaginations of her mother's hard work, increased by her absence, loomed up before her, till she was almost ready to fly home without a minute's warning.
And then Milly loomed up with a thousand dishes on her bare arm--loomed up big and white and pink and awful as Mount Saint Elias--with a smile like day breaking in a gulch.
And he ran faster, panting, gasping, till of a sudden the portals loomed before him, and he saw a crowd of frenzied Atlanteans struggling to pass through, and a file of soldiers struggling to keep them back.