| 单词 | loom |
| 例句 | Ahead loomed the high brick walls of the local brewery. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The Wall loomed on his right as he crossed the yard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sea stone dominated the approaches to the outer harbor, a massive grey-green upthrust looming fifty feet above the waters. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The long days wore on, one as like another as the endless threads of the loom. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z We sped down a quiet stretch of road where huge trees loomed over us. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Nailer and Pima stopped short, staring at the looming wreckage. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The castle with its towers and battlements looms below them like some misty vision of foregone glory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He found himself alone in a white wilderness, walls of snow looming up to either side of him chest high. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The wet, black trunks of trees loomed out of the foggy half-light. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The gray towers loomed large before us like stone mountains. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sohrab left his arm resting on my shoulder as he pointed out the other buildings nearby: newer, smaller mosques, and bazaars, and farther away, looming over Yazd, the mountains we were going to visit soon. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z My eyes travel to the drawing behind me, the healthy lungs looming over my head, just out of reach. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Below them the streets were frill of burned-out cars squeezed together between the looming walls. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z But even as progress was made, new challenges loomed around every corner. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “The sight of freedom looming on the horizon should encourage us to redouble our efforts.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The hospital was a Goliath of brown brick and gleaming glass, looming over a green lawn as bright as bread mold. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Now there was a shape crouching beside her, looming over her, and a voice by her ear. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Extravagantly illuminated by the midday sun, Everest’s summit pyramid loomed through an intermittent gauze of clouds. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z It’s like a looming apocalypse, but with formal wear. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z We found her unraveling the splendid shroud, and then she had to finish, willy nilly— finish, and show the big loom woven tight from beam to beam with cloth. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The massive shape of the giant loomed over him, obscured by layers of black smoke. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At Maer without Charles, his charm, his wit, his very presence to remind her of all she loved about him, the problem of their religious differences loomed large. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When true daylight arrived, they had come to the edge of the wood, and now the hills stood all about, being very high toward the north, where the Welsh mountains loomed in the blue distance. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Everybody looked up when Grandma loomed into the room, as people always did. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She paused by the empty loom and waited until a nearby worker had stopped to reset her shuttle. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He stands, just like a cop on TV, and walks around his desk until he’s looming over me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z No more than a hundred yards ahead of him loomed the canyon, the one of “immeasurable depth.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z On the other side, die Red Keep loomed high an its hill, spitting fire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Then Grand Maester Pycelle was looming over him, holding a cup, whispering, "Drink, my lord. Here. The milk of the poppy, for your pain." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z October also meant that the Fall Fiesta was looming, and it was getting harder to find excuses for why I needed to stay after school or go to Joe’s. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z No Locusts Stand I. She looked back at the looming, gabled, house-shaped Hole in the Universe and imagined living in the silver bowl that Baby Kochamma had installed on the roof. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the planes were gone, and in the huge silence that loomed over the fields and trees and the village, there was not even birdsong. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He opened his eyes a little and saw an array of faces, white and looming. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The man with the bottle still loomed in my mind, his sneer as sharp as the glass edges that had glinted in the sun. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z When she described the policeman looming over her seat, she admitted that “I was very hurt... and I was crying... and the policeman said, ‘I will have to take you off.’ Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z When a warp thread snapped, instead of instantly hitting the lever to stall the loom, she threw her apron over her head and burst into tears. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Because while the electric lights of downtown make for some nice sightseeing, I can also see the Trial stadium looming off in the east. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “What do you mean?” he asked her, and she heard a looming disagreement in his voice; he, too, believed in unbending, unambiguous honesties. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I didn’t anticipate the void that would loom in its absence. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The statue of the Dharma Raja, Lord of Justice and Death, loomed above them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He had been playing the game for eight years, as long as it took to go to medical school, serve an internship, and complete a residency, but what loomed down the road because of it? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z From up here Tyrion could see it, the dark trees looming beyond the stretch of open ground, like a second wall built parallel to the first, a wall of night. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Then the American athletes marched down the platform, past a looming black locomotive with swastikas emblazoned on its sides. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z At the front of the hall loomed the wooden ark containing the Torah, its velvet curtain adorned with ornate goldwork. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They had no loom and paid the village weaver in spun flax for cloth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The palace loomed on the island in front of them. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Lit- de by little, as they approached along Michigan Avenue, he began to be aware of a monolith looming in the distance, a building like a gigantic church organ, pipes running into die sky. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The gazebo, skeleton-like, looms at the end of the garden path. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Up the length of the street they came shouting, and never knew they had run right through the village, as the empty huts and houses loomed and disappeared again in the writhing grey fog. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Since the day she’d gone to get her operation, she’d felt the massive weight of the city looming over her, and had learned firsthand how much places like the Smoke threatened people like Dr. Cable. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Another wave looms behind us—the crest full of red eyes like the leading edge of a lava flow. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Sure, Jason and she had had a few months at Camp Half-Blood, but the war with Gaia had always been looming. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z For reasons still unclear, America, the land that had given birth to Ashe and nurtured him, loomed bright as the place to go to realise my fullest potential in tennis, in life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Matthew Wood stepped back from door, and the Reverend Bulkeley loomed on the kitchen threshold. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Also, I think we were all waiting to see the outcome of an event that loomed larger and larger with every passing day. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z When he woke, he found Edd Tollett looming over him in the darkness of his bedchamber. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Low she sang in her beguiling voice, while on her loom she wove ambrosial fabric sheer and bright, by that craft known to the goddesses of heaven. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In bed I toss and turn and watch the dark shadows of the broom and mop looming in the comer like monsters. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A pressing deadline was looming, for a story on the Nature Center’s annual plant sale. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Brigid had two looms now and would soon be ready for a third. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The looming shape of Suribachi made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The Olympic Mountains and their rolling foothills loom behind Port Angeles. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They also shared all the possible dangers that loomed in the air because somebody had said or done something that should not have been said or done. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Lyddie took to copying out passages from Mr. Douglass and the Bible to paste on her looms. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Among other factors relevant to answering Yali’s question, cultural factors and influences of individual people loom large. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Above them, looming thirty feet high against the wall, was the name of the museum exhibit in which they currently found themselves. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Autumn was always a fearful time, with the specter of winter looming ahead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The lamp’s swinging glare cast shadows across them both, looming and swooping shapes. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z At the far end of the boulevard, looming like an escarpment in the Rockies, stood the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Clouds like cement are paved in sections to the sky The cemetery looms up, and I turn to the area where my father’s grave is. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The other, that huge loom of shadow and muscle, the half-man Tool. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It was a small shadow at first, maybe a squirrel or a chipmunk, but then it grew larger and larger, quicker than any natural shadow could grow, until it loomed over them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Root dropped down a few hundred feet until its shadowy outline loomed through the mist. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z At the prow of the Shy Maid, Young Griff stood with the third pole, to push them away from hazards as they loomed up through the mists. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Anthony DePalma, a veteran foreign and domestic correspondent, spotted an important twist in the destiny of immigrants, who loom so large in the great American myth. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The officer bends forward and looms over the miniature city like some tormented gargoyle. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The night sky looms ever more black in front of me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard her scramble over and she loomed into his sight. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Closer and closer the demons loomed as the desperate chase neared its end. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “There’ll be three looms for you to tend, a nice fat raise to your wages for these several weeks.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He pulled her toward the door just as the freakiest sound Ivy had ever heard loomed over the siren. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Not even the real Persian way on a loom. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Ilya loomed over them and said, “There’s more going on here. I can feel it.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z In the sound of the drums I understood a vast pervading doom; but in the expectant silences between, my own disaster loomed larger, more consequent and more hurtful. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z There was always a cloud looming over our school days—the possibility of war. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z If Winterfell needed to brace for war, how much more so Riverrun, so much closer to King's Landing, with the power of easterly Rock looming to the west like a shadow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The gloomy darkness of Prospect Park loomed ahead of them. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The silhouette of a uniformed police officer loomed in the doorway. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The next thing I knew, the faces of Lynn, Auntie, the twins, and Sammy were looming over me as I lay on my back. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z She had gotten off the fewest pieces in one day since she’d had four looms, and she still had to go home to the burden of silent little Rachel. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z In the midst of it all, the anchor loomed indomitable. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Their faces loomed huge in front of him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The massive sandstone walls of the keep loomed above them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But Monmouth was scarcely thirty feet away, and my own room, with its conspicuously lighted window, must have loomed in his path like a beacon. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I eased my foot out from under Dandy’s head so he wouldn’t be disturbed and came off the steps and stood alone in the deep blackness of the backyard, the old mountains looming over me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In silence, she crept away from the campsite and into the looming trees. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z There were white people to either side of him; he was sitting between two vast white looming walls. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z So every day I wove on the great loom, but every night by torchlight I unwove it; and so for three years I deceived the Akhaians. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at the sun looming low in the horizon. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Snape loomed behind them, half in shadow, wearing a most peculiar expression: It was as though he was trying hard not to smile. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z But as I made my way closer to the clearing, I noticed two people by the edge of the ridge that loomed over the path below. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Beyond that, the strange building loomed beneath what looked like a living tornado of dactyls. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “The how. I want to know the how. I look at the cliff and it looms there, unclimbable.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Across the East River, like a fairy city made of silver cardboard, the skyscrapers loomed cleanly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z You will do yourself harm if you keep that up, the monster said, looming over him. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z They keep their eyes on the ground or on the black walls looming over them. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Then, as he drew level with the last pair of pillars, a statue high as the Chamber itself loomed into view, standing against the back wall. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The cotton harvest was looming, so I considered the issue of the short hoe, which still raged through our part of the world. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The deadline for moving ahead or abandoning the match was looming, and then it came...and went, with no further word from the champion. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It looms across from the ticket booth, just inside the large iron gates. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They shot down the Tumblestone, letting the strong current push them past the looming Wheel Tower. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Tomorrow the women would dye the yarn, and when it was ready, her father, a master weaver, would create the strips of treasured fabric on his loom. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, no, no, my duck!” she cried suddenly to Eilonwy, who had drawn closer to the loom and had just bent forward to examine the fabric. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z She’d never seen a house like that before, and the way it loomed made her feel small and insignificant. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Against one wall stood a large loom and a harp. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The sun was still high and he was dimly aware of a hill with a tall, gray fortress looming at its crest. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z On the further side it reared up again, many fathoms at a single leap: a great grey cliff loomed before them, cut sheer down as if by a knife stroke. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The banker glanced up, to where the ice loomed vast and pale against the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Once the waves were behind them, still and silent landscapes loomed ahead. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The girl burst into tears again, and before Lyddie could decide what to do with her, Diana was there, slapping off the loom. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z There were displays of power looms, rope-making lathes, marine engines, hydraulic presses, steam machines, and other tools, machines, and crafts from around the world. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The Cyclops stuck one hand into the room and groped around until he found the loom. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Pressing in on the crowded, narrow streets were looming walls of close-built buildings, structures two, sometimes three, stories high, with slate, not thatch, roofs. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to send Grover into a panic, but I knew we had another huge deadline looming, aside from saving Artemis . in time for her council of the gods. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Arion stood proudly at the top of a ridge of ice that loomed over the void. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In the center loomed a large, domed hut made of bones and greenish leather. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And then a ten-foot sheer rock wall loomed in front of him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She even sent him a few new sets of clothes—simple, undyed cotton pants and shirts that she must have made on her loom. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Kudzu- swamped clusters of old abandoned buildings shadowed under the loom of swamp trees. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The looming shapes of animals bunched up inside: antelopes, bushbucks, broadheaded warthogs with warthog children running behind them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Before I can protest, he puts all his strength into flinging me high—and I find myself sailing up toward the arch that still looms ahead. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The gray head of Mr. Yacobowski looms up over the counter. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z They could not follow this road any longer; for it went on eastward into the great Shadow, but the Mountain now loomed upon their right, almost due south, and they must turn towards it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z In one far corner an upright piano loomed; in another sat a rolltop desk. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Forms and figures loomed out of the rain: boulders in our path, gruesome as ogres to my susceptible wits, hulking, pocked and eyed with limpets, shaggy with weeds. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I opened my eyes and studied the tower, admiring the way it loomed over my bed. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Indeed, the shadow of this mighty Choral symphony was to loom majestically over the entire nineteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A month later Spain loomed on the horizon. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The second is her sitting on a wooden stool weaving a Persian rug in the dark on a giant loom hidden deep in the cellar of their house. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The only colors come from the Republic flags and circular gold Republic seal hanging behind the room’s front altar, the portrait of our glorious Elector looming above them all. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z In the darkness, a barricade loomed before them, blocking the road that led to a bridge across a river. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Black waves loom over us and roll beneath us, dark and shining. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Matty could see the slender palms and the strong fingers, calloused at their tips from the garden work, the loom, and the needles that she used for her complicated, beautiful tapestries. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z His dark mask loomed oddly in my blurry vision. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A half hour later, when she spied the enormous elevated interchange loom up ahead of them, she gasped and put one hand to the side of her face. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I stopped to look at them, jagged and red peaked, looming there like a distant mountain range. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A gate loomed up, a black iron snake coiled tight about bar and post. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She sat at a loom the size of a big screen TV her hands weaving colored thread back and forth with amazing skill. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z There was something magical about it: the low walls, all that remained of some ancient hall, and the pillars looming over me like giants in an ancient playground. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Suddenly the future loomed tangibly for me, as tangible as a future can loom for a black boy in Mississippi. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She scanned the room and spotted the cuff of my jeans sticking out from under the loom. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z It had loomed in my memory as a huge lone spike dominating the riverbank, forbidding as an artillery piece, high as the beanstalk. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Down they went, past ledges and seagulls and tough little trees, until they were standing on the rocky shore with the cliffs looming behind them. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z As the white mountain had once loomed over him, so now the black wall of death loomed closer with each fleeting hour. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Her face looms across the screen, the same wide sparkling eyes, her curly hair longer than I remember it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It seemed almost that quiet in the great loom room. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Some moons will be so close that their planet will loom high in the heavens, covering half the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered the quick glimpse he had had of the white looming bulk; he looked up. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z By this time Father Mike saw the Eldorado looming, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On all sides the cliffs were alive with this evil collection of crawling, looming, creeping, lurching shapes. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Ahead loom the tall, grand houses that flank the gardens, reflecting sound. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z At first Triphena pretended not to recognize her at all—“this grand lady come from the city of looms and spindles.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Leo realized that a much larger figure was looming behind Bythos, with a shadow so wide, it filled the entire cave entrance. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Ivy hugged her pillow to her chest, catching one more glimpse of that huge nothing looming up in front of her father. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It was Bunny, all right, all six-foot-three of him, looming up behind me in a tremendous yellow rain slicker that came almost to his ankles. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It loomed at him suddenly, out of the mist. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z To his right there loomed against the westward stars a dark black shape. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Hannah led the conversation, as though to smooth the air, her voice calming, bringing up subjects they would all agree on, changing to something else if she sensed a looming disagreement. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z With her foot lifted to the next step she stood there, her hand against the wall and the gray splash of the window behind her, motionless and shapeless she loomed. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There seemed no chance of either while the final Quidditch game of the season was looming; Ron wanted to talk tactics with Harry all the time and had little thought for anything else. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The door loomed before her, the red door, so close, so close, the hall was a blur around her, the cold receding behind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He sensed the woman moving on, but before he could leave, a shadow loomed over his shoulder. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z And it wasn’t as tall as Mount Rainier, which loomed over Seattle, about two hundred miles to the north of Cedar. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z In West Helena we could have a home of our own, a condition that now loomed desirable after a few months of Granny’s anxiety about the state of our souls. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He looms big and tall above the men and women standing before him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He loomed over the girl, but she didn’t flinch. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Without anybody who would pay her a dowry and therefore without an obligatory husband looming on her horizon. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A particularly large man looms before me, an impassable wall, so I change my trajectory, moving parallel to the boardwalk until I find an opening. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Suddenly, the Golden Glen loomed up out of the darkness like a ship that had run aground. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Down the road, past the looming cedar trees that looked as if they might once have circled a cemetery, the chicken did a mixed fly-flap-and-skid routine. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The shadows of the men loomed in the doorway. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The mountains loom behind her, peaks lost in heavy clouds. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It says nothing about what drove the progression from bands to tribes to chiefdoms during all the millennia before the prospect of large-scale irrigation loomed up on the horizon. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was getting dark and the Fifty-ninth Street Bridge loomed ahead. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I could see only one possible end looming darkly in my future. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It was nicer wood than the loom my grandma used with the thread we had made. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet it is also true that the very same troubles that loom catastrophically large one day can seem like small potatoes the next, particularly if even worse troubles have popped up to take their place. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Both set up their looms and stretched the warp upon them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Or perhaps it was because the circumstances were different, and looming over them now was the marriage he never talked about. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Wrapped in his furs and leathers, mounted on his great warhorse, his lord father loomed over him like a giant. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They loomed round the church wall, the lovers and helpers of the Wart, and they all spoke solemnly in turn. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Although they said they understood, they were clearly anguished about getting legal assistance while other men faced looming executions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z As Bear loomed large before her, a grand grin spread upon her face, revealing not just joy, but a complete lack of teeth. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z It shimmered like the fabric on her loom. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z After a minute, Darkness loomed over him and said, “What was your question?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Then, without warning, for no reason that Lyddie could see, Diana slammed off one of the looms. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Even though Diana had stopped the loom, Lyddie stood rubbing the powder into her fingertips, hesitating to plunge her hands into the bowels of the machine. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z As the crystal pillars loomed larger, I started to feel the power emanating from the next room. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z This afternoon a familiar face looms in the train station, maybe four or five back in the queue. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Ahead loomed the walls of Erebos, but the longer we walked, the farther away they seemed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The station wagon pulled into a parking space between two looming gray buildings separated by a narrow road. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Above it all, the glass castle loomed, so high she had to tilt her head back to see the uppermost towers. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She could see a distant looming of land, low and flat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The audience whose approval looms so large in artists’ minds is a limited and special one. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She was away from the clatter of the loom. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The trees parted like a curtain and suddenly there it was, cloaked in fog, looming atop a weed-choked hill. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The image of the ice fortress loomed in her memory, monstrous and beautiful. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The sun loomed larger and larger, closer and closer in front of the ship, as flurries of light broke over the masts and rigging. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It loomed over her like a giant, angry teacher after she failed a potions test. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The building loomed above us, soaring bell towers framing its giant dome. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z And catechism loomed in the future for all of us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I suppose I must have assumed those old problems had been left behind with our early teen years, and that only the big issues that now loomed so large could possibly preoccupy any of us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Diana grasped the metal lever, pulled it toward the loom, and jammed it into a slot. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Instead, it began to seem a place where one’s views on the fraught politics of national security and weapons development loomed over one’s career prospects. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And then a wheel was looming over her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Slights loom large, and a reprimand can reverberate into the night. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Black and forbidding it loomed above them, darker than the dark sky behind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Then past the driver's head I could see a wall of buildings looming beyond the windshield. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Trees, posts, cowsheds loomed into my vision, then vanished, swallowed in white. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “All right. Consider it done. I’ll make the fireproof pouch tonight at the loom, when I’ve cleaned up. But what can I do now, while my hands are dirty?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He could feel its presence on the ship now, looming over them, ready to take his Wraith. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He counted them until he forgot the darkness looming at the portholes and the fringes of his life. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Homer’s looming presence, somewhere in the dark, magnified the urgency. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It loomed above them, an icy cliff seven hundred feet high. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A tall figure loomed up and stumbled over him, cursing the tree-roots. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Mine was marked by aloof boys, prepping for the SATs, and a looming fear of deportation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He took it for a hill looming above a wooded island, or some colossal rock overgrown with moss and fems and hidden by the fog. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When I was younger, he loomed large and scary, like a character in a horror story. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Then he saw the young moon rising; under its thin light there loomed before him a black wall of rock, pierced by a dark arch like a great gate. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Drawn up within the shadow of the Gate and under the looming walls outside they had waited for his signal: all the mounted men that were left in the City. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The road made a bend to the right, then back to the left, and then all of a sudden the mountains loomed right above Pong. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Mini frowned and was opening her mouth to say something when new ground loomed up ahead. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Fangor loomed over her and aimed his teeth at her neck. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, in the wash of the headlights, a large animal loomed in my path. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z You get a thought in your head in this crazy place and it looms so big. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z First two points of mast, then sails, transparent and wraithlike in the fog, then, as Kit strained her eyes, the looming hull, the prow, and the curved tail of a fish. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Had Orange Juice been a male, had she loomed as large on the scales as she did in my heart, it might have been another matter. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z History was everywhere, looming over me like the long, leafy branches casting shadows over the walkway. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z It’s not quite Gstaad or Aspen, but the weather is cold enough to ski on the snow-covered mountains looming to the north. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We walk through the doors into the main lobby, the large staircase looming in front of us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Outside the window, I can see the peak of Mount Hood looming. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good. Today will be something more strenuous, I fear. We’ll work all three looms together, all right? Until you feel quite sure of everything.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Nat stared across the water until the rugged peaks of Bourbon loomed on the horizon. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He woke gasping, lost in darkness, and saw a vast shadow looming over him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The night is dark and looming, heavy and warm. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Blue-furred, orange-eyed, red-fanged, a tiger snarled upon his left biceps; a spitting snake, coiled around a dagger, slithered down his arm; and elsewhere skulls gleamed, a tombstone loomed, a chrysanthemum flourished. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z But no matter how hard she tried to get to the door, it seemed to loom farther and farther away. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Far away and almost straight ahead there was a red glow under the black sky and the sides of the great mountain loomed dark against it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They loom inside the small space, taking up all the air. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Trumpeters signaled their arrival as they passed through the looming alabaster walls of Rifthold. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Another skull loomed ahead, the biggest monster of all, but Arya did not even slow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The words “Feline Bad Breath” loomed in blue at the top. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Some suddenly loomed up right in front of him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Horses with no heads and with hands instead of hooves loomed out of the fog. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z That is to say, the important international conference to take place at Darlington Hall was by then looming ahead of us, leaving little room for indulgence or 'beating about the bush'. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Tall, bright buildings loom over the treetops, but they are nowhere near this castle that seems to have fallen out of the sky and landed in the heart of this vast park. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It opened its gaping mouth as it loomed over her, but just as it neared, there was a flash of white. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Not like the rusting monoliths of the Accelerated Age, but still, it loomed over them. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z My hands were so stiff, I could hardly move them; death loomed closer here. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z You couldn't just go around announcing that your mom was Athena, the goddess who invented the loom; Most people would lock you in a rubber room. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The sharp edge of a rock loomed up, and he knew no more. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z This was a woods for looming bears, dangling snakes, wolves with laser-red eyes, strange noises, sudden terrors—a place of “standing night,” as Thoreau neatly and nervously put it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z This is a real live police officer looming over me, his eyes hidden by sunglasses. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Arthur looked at him closely through the looming twilight —then began an enormous smile. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The lamps had been extinguished by the operatives as they left their looms, so at first her eyes could make out nothing but the hulking shapes of the machines. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Brick buildings loom from each side, but behind him is the door, the door that separates me from my father and brother. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Now dark and ominous it loomed up in the night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z To his right, the jungle’s trees still loomed like sentries; to his left, a barren expanse of russet dirt stretched several yards wide between the city’s edge and the jungles border to create a no-man’s-land. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z When the carriage came to a stop at last and the footman opened the door for her, they had arrived in the courtyard in front of Quinn House, which loomed dull and stony before her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Flames burn low in the gilded fireplace, the tall bookcases stuffed with curios and relics loom in shadow. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Mrs. Kurtz had been looming over us, watching Megan’s frustration, and she said, “Why don’t the three of you form a study group to work on tonight’s assignment?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The Quakers were rich enough to own their own loom. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z A pirate ship looms along the shore, lit up with strings of lanterns that dangle in intervals to the top of its masts, the lights reflecting against the water in a sheet of glitter. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Lyddie and the Irish girl beyond kept Brigid’s looms going between them as best they could. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly a tall pillar loomed up before them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z So it was Australia, that distant island-continent, that loomed in his imagination as his ‘America.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Always the volunteers faced the looming threat of violence from white vigilantes determined to put an end to “race-mixing.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The room is calm and quiet, and Sloan looms large in the center. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z At the foot of my bed, the block tower loomed, jagged and leering. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z They were posting cannon along the ridge by moonlight: pleasant looming shapes, rolling caissons. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The playful romance we had sustained in the cave has disappeared out in the open, under the hot sun, with the threat of Cato looming over us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It was a queer-looking land that loomed up over the sea as he drew nearer and nearer. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z As we approached the island, jagged rocks loomed out of the fog. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Hoskins had simply been plucked from our midst and we, figuratively, had fallen on our faces to avoid looking into that white-hot face of terror that we knew loomed somewhere above us. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The first line had been transformed into a confusion of separate struggles, The three tangled ships loomed ahead, turning, their decks a red chaos as men hacked at each other with sword and axe. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The storm has been looming for more than a week—plenty of time to prepare the ship for this onslaught, but the captain chose to do nothing, sticking to a unique philosophy. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Jealousy loomed so large in her it made her tremble. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I listened, my back pressing against the hard bench, with a numbness, my emotions woven into his words as upon a loom. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z From across the river, he saw a beautiful scene: a looming moon, high over Washington, with the great dome glowing in the moonlight. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Overhead, the night sky loomed black and starless. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He turned to find the robot looming over him, too close to freeze. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z A small mountain range loomed in the distance, and I could see the amoeba-shaped forest at its base. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He sat up; a guard loomed over him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Fear seemed to stretch out a vast hand, like a dark cloud rising in the East and looming up to engulf him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z So every day she wove on the great loom— but every night by torchlight she unwove it, and so for three years she deceived the Akhaians. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A purple-suited man saunters in, followed by a train of powdered and prim-looking men carrying notebooks, and a set of tailors and seamstresses who wheel in massive spinning looms. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The man they wanted was all the way at the top of the hill, in a huge house of timber and plaster whose upper stories loomed over the narrow street. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We moved a big desk and behind that was a loom. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The tipple loomed before me like a giant black spider. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Celaena’s eyes brightened, and she tilted her head back so she could see the castle looming above them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The mountains still loomed up ominously on their left, but near at hand they could see the southward road, now bearing away from the black roots of the hills and slanting westwards. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They’ll definitely have to keep it up at least until the election is over, and even then, there’s the always looming possibility of the queen outright forbidding it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Today again he waited, eyes glued on the big church clock that loomed high overhead. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She was panting when the black hull loomed over her head, and at first she could barely raise her voice above the wash of the ship. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z On Phinney Ridge, looming above Ballard, wood smoke curled up from the stovepipes and chimneys of hundreds of modest homes and dissolved into the mist overhead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It took her back to her father’s loom. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z There were fits and starts of normality, but always a specter loomed. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Soon the Indianapolis skyline loomed up in the distance. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The mountains, which now looked further off than before, loomed ahead. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The burning wight loomed over him, etched tall against the trees in their snowy shrouds. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Far off, it seemed, half veiled in winding cloud, there loomed the island rock. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Juanita threw the cash on the dashboard and turned away to look out the window at the tall desiccated trees that seemed to loom over us as we drove on. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She didn’t dare look in his direction, but went straight to her looms where Brigid was already at work, cleaning and oiling. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Downward from this yard he wove on the wind's loom a sail of spells, a square sail white as the snows on Gont peak above. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z In his big gold armchair, he looked much smaller than I had imagined him, looming as he always was from some wall or other. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And this year the Olympic trials loomed just beyond Poughkeepsie, not to mention what lay beyond that. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The women in the shed, seated at looms, nodded to Kira as she approached. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of nowhere, boulders loom, and fallen trees barricade the way. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Marsden was sure to give her charge of at least two looms, perhaps a third. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Surely, it seemed, there must come a moment when all the tasks would be done and some brief leisure earned, yet always a new chore loomed ahead. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z So despite the third levy tax looming large in everyone’s minds, people were looking in their purses and wishing they’d bought a little something, just in case the snow came early. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Once, at a party at Sally and Oliver’s, they’d wandered off to make quick, giddy love in Sally’s walk- in closet, piles of her sweaters looming over them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I was now looking at my thirtieth birthday looming on the horizon, and I often thought about life after sport. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z With the finish line looming ahead of him in the gathering dark, Bobby Moch screamed something inarticulate. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It loomed suddenly below them, jutting up from the city. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Red loomed over both JT and me in the darkness between the streetlights. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But the question won’t let itself be pushed to the back of my mind today; on the contrary, all the fear I’ve ever felt is looming before me in all its horror. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She hated being inside the house with the loom and the spinning wheel and the endless hanks of yam. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes Jason stood in the underground temple of Epirus, the giant Clytius looming over him, speaking in a chorus of disembodied voices: It took all of you together to defeat me. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z And during that time, Gerry, always the maverick, had opted to remain in Paris to confer unofficially with French diplomats about averting the looming war. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Her great eyes loomed over Harry, gazing at him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z And there was the mysterious shadowy figure that loomed from nowhere, accidentally frightening Finn into stepping in one of Uncle Louvers traps. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z As Celia walks alone through the front hall, Marco grabs her hand, pulling her into a shadowed alcove behind the looming golden statue. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Only a few yards ahead dark shapes loomed up in the stream and he heard the swirl of racing water. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z One looming problem was how to color the exteriors of the main buildings, especially the staff-coated palisades of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He shifts sideways to face me, but the box looms between us. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I gestured up ahead to the slab of stone that loomed over the tops of the wagons ahead of us. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The Erudite buildings loom above me, dark and unfamiliar. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z She shrank again from the touch before she saw it was one of the young women who tended the looms. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The current loomed behind him, a liquid wall of black and green. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the tall window I could see, across the courtyard, the chimney looming high above, steadily emitting black smoke. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t remember seeing one at the Stevenses’, and they were rich enough to own their own loom. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z And now, farther south, beyond that visible barrier, out in the world I scarcely remembered, there loomed the dark, threatening cloud I’d heard grown-ups talk about. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Ralph did a surface dive and swam under water with his eyes open; the sandy edge of the pool loomed up like a hillside. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She seemed to loom in the room, and her eyes were like a storm. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Behind the trees the walls rose, piles of dead man- rock that loomed all about this speck of living wood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The hospital’s tower looms just a few blocks away. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z From the middle of the crowd, all she could see were arms and legs and stomachs, and the seven slender towers of the sept looming overhead. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Above us, the Chicago skyline loomed against gray clouds. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z A large yellow backhoe loomed in the distance. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Nothing unusual loomed at her or scurried away. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Stuart strained his eyes, and suddenly, dead ahead, right in the path of the Wasp, he saw an enormous paper bag looming up on the surface of the pond. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Just as they were finishing, a leopard seal loomed through the mist, hunching itself across the ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He pointed across the street to a black, looming empty apartment building. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She rolled off into space, the ground looming below. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z To the south loomed the Rocky Hill, gray boulders clearly visible along the top, and beyond it the higher eminence of the Round Hill. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Watchtowers rise into the sky, guards with guns looming above us. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Finally, he thought that the two cameras hidden in burlap-covered towers might be distracting when he began to play, and the towers themselves, looming over the stage like medieval battering rams, were disconcerting. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The knight loomed overhead on his armored warhorse. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The hideous tank loomed over Carmen’s neighborhood, blotting out the sun. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z But how could she say she had heard nothing but the beastly racket of the looms? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “What we need,” said Hermione briskly as Thursday afternoon’s double Potions lesson loomed nearer, “is a diversion. Then one of us can sneak into Snape’s office and take what we need.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z In its place, a wooden building loomed at my back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was mountains looming on the verge of sight, their jagged edges softened by wellnigh twenty leagues of misty air; perhaps it was but a cloud-wall, and beyond that again a yet deeper gloom. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But finally, at seventy-six, there loomed on Amarante’s horizon a Waterloo. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z South-eastward, far off like a dark standing shadow, loomed the Mountain. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The captain ignored Inez and said to Amari, “Women can do anything they have skills for in this place. Can you build a loom?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the Detroit River sped past and the city loomed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Blackcliff looms before us as suddenly as if it has sprung fully formed from the earth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The picture cut to an aerial shot of snowy hills, dotted like a war map with pinprick figures, Mount Cataract looming lopsided and huge in the foreground. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It didn’t take long to reach the Night Zoo, though Ekon still paused as the hill it perched upon loomed into view. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But there would still always be the reaping looming over us, over our children. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She slept and slept and still there were hours awake to worry when her mind skimple- skombled back on itself like threads in a snarled loom. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I squeezed myself into frame, looming over Mom’s shoulder. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z It seemed scarcely any time at all before the great curtain wall of Pyke loomed up before them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We sped up the river, the cliffs looming up on either side of us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z So every day she wove on the great loom— but every night by torchlight she unwove it; and so for three years she deceived the Akhaians. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She pinched a tiny bag hung from the metal frame of the loom. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Dad lowered the carrier onto the concrete floor next to the silver table looming in the center of the room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The storm still looms in the distance no closer than the night before or the night before that. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Once, as I arrived on the Peak in the early morning before it was properly light, I saw the dark shape of a large animal looming in front of me. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z It loomed over us as precariously as the Tower of Babel, a marvel of glass and steel. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Of his home, he remembered the looming door. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In the distance, a few sauropods loomed over the rooftops of those huge dinofeed storehouses, long, graceful silhouettes against the cloudy night. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z A large shape loomed in the center, and lofts lay in high darkness along both long walls. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Hamilton’s last days contained several other incidents of equivalent poignancy, though they were only recognizable when viewed through the knowledge of the looming duel. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The reason the service vehicles are out on the road looms up on the right—the municipal garage. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z We stood at the river’s edge, looking up at a curve of concrete that loomed between the cliffs. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z In reality there had been no one, so that toward the end of college, as graduation loomed, she was convinced in her bones that there would be no one at all. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Ahead mountains loomed: a tall peak was catching the first rays of the sun. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Piggy was inspecting the looming sky through his glass. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Suddenly the great bulk of the Pole Star loomed over them, bearing down. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The looms began to click and move again. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Grover was sitting at his loom, desperately unraveling his wedding train, when the boulder door rolled aside and the Cyclops bellowed, “Aha!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z I glanced up at the mountain’s peak, where a black marble fortress loomed, just like I’d seen in my dreams. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z In early May they sighted the loom of shadowy mountains off their starboard bow. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, Malfoy’s sneering face kept looming up out of the darkness — this was his big chance to beat Malfoy face-to-face. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The long pause that followed, while Violet examined the face that loomed out of the frame, made Alice nervous. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The first day of school Mami walked me to a stone building that loomed over Graham Avenue, its concrete yard enclosed by an iron fence with spikes at the top. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z They rode knee to knee, following the line of the looming walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Before them a wide grey shadow loomed, and they heard an endless rustle of leaves like poplars in the breeze. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z In the distance loomed the massive wall of the Brooks Range, the massive mountains that rimmed the North Slope on the south. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind it, the Black One loomed, mirroring its shape. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z He spotted the exit and sprinted toward it, but a figure loomed in front of him—a woman in robes of dry swirling earth, her face covered in a veil of dust. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Behind the nearest fence loomed a tall, thin neck topped by a small head. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We did find a broken loom and the bones of a motorbike. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z They turned just in time to see the shadow of Argus Filch looming over the wall behind them before the man himself turned the corner, hunchbacked, his jowls aquiver. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Bob loomed over them, his broom planted like a flag. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We walked a weaving line around the plant life, up and down washes and gullies, the Maricopas looming lavender in the distance. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z The doors of the Great Hall loomed up in front of him; new-made, to replace the doors that burned, they seemed erode and ugly to him, raw planks hastily joined. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She flipped the page again, this time to a picture of a little girl cowering before a looming shadow. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Trig looms in my life like a mathematical predatory beast. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Darker it loomed, and steadily it rose as they approached, until it towered up high above them, shutting out the view of all that lay beyond. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Trees loomed just beyond the stream: she must be in the back of the castle—the side that faced the sea... Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z They would remain in our doorway for the longest time just staring us up and down, while their baskets of plenty loomed silently on their heads. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Davos threaded their way deftly between the jagged rocks until the cave mouth loomed up before them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The white landscape rushes past me, and the ice monuments loom close. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Live oak trees, festooned with cool scarves of Spanish moss, and gnarled by a century of storms, loomed over the street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The monster’s huge muscled form loomed over the rest of the thugs, its doglike muzzle snarling and showing its teeth to scare back the hungry people. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Its entire terrain was one series of hills after another, some of them gentle rises, some looming peaks. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Ludsbury loomed on like a high-masted clipper ship in this rocking passage, and I tried to go stealthily by him on my watery, squeaking sneakers. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Mountains loomed dark in the distance against a pale sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Beyond the treetops, there's a banner of skyscrapers looming overhead. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Adulthood, after all, already loomed, where she would have to make grimmer and grimmer decisions. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But the looming threat of possible injury and perhaps even death did tend to focus his mind on the downside of his swashbuckling style. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Shortly afterward, Mount Tam and the Marin headlands loomed out of the fog. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But it was hard for Nailer to concentrate, knowing that Lucky Girl and a fight loomed on the horizon. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The camp looms like a small village before me, flickering and swaying in the haze like a mirage. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “And when I passed the weaving shed, I could smell the fabrics folded there, and even the wood of the looms. “If the women had been at work, I would have recognized the sounds.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She drew a tower with unsettling stonework and intersecting corridors and stairways crowding its insides, looming over a town drenched in fog. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He looms closer in my side mirror and goes past. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z A huge house looms in front of us. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “Nice,” she says, walking over so that Alexander’s tree house looms over us, the ladder at our fingertips. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Now I can see outlines, gleams: from the mirror, the bases of the lamps, the vases, the sofa looming like a cloud at dusk. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The outer wall of the White Island loomed up before them, covered in a rippling pattern of scales. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It looms before us like an impenetrable wall, trying to crush us, but not yet able to. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z As the castle loomed nearer Harry twitched the Cloak to make sure their feet were hidden, then pushed the creaking front doors ajar. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Silvertongue looked up at the nearby mountains looming dark behind their foothills. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Presently, not far ahead, looming up like a black wall, they saw a belt of trees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Dark and black it looms over me, pulling me deeper and deeper into it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Four days passed, without the ground or the scene changing much, except that behind them Weathertop slowly sank, and before them the distant mountains loomed a little nearer. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The rampart loomed suddenly before them, a high shadow beyond a dark pit. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z His arm was around me tightly in an instant, and I stood as straight as I could so he wouldn’t loom too much over me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z This one looms over us, a miniature mountain, and although his features are poorly defined, I can still make out his wolf’s smile. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He remembered how his gut had clenched when he was kicked awake at dawn with the big man looming over him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She smiled wanly and continued down the aisle between the looms. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I plucked them from the auction bloc and gave them to the loom.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Something dreadful. These messages are connected to it, but they are only the beginning. What’s coming is worse, far worse—a looming darkness, like storm clouds sweeping in to cover the sky.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z In short, he warned, failure loomed for programs that were now judged a success. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z As they stepped into the corridor, Filch’s face loomed suddenly out of the darkness. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z It was very quiet and very dark in the alley and familiar things loomed up suddenly, huge and out of shape. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure, black and brown folks gathered at the Zanzibar for shows and had a good ol’ time at it too, but the shadow of what was outside always loomed. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Maybe it was only the shadows, but she loomed over me in her driveway that night. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He could see in her eyes how much she was struggling, trying to marshal her emotions into neat orderly rows like strands on her loom. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There were moments when all three looms were running as they ought—all the shuttles bearing full quills, all three temples hung high on the cloth, no warp threads snapping. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z But for countless poor people—particularly racial minorities who disproportionately rely on public assistance—that possibility looms large. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The air is cold and sharp as we cross the meadows, and the dark trees loom up before us. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Suddenly, Diana banged a metal lever at the right of the machine and the loom shivered to a halt. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z This was the first giant step our medieval ancestors took as the year iooo loomed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed up in the mists like ragged shadows of long-forgotten summers. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Jack slipped into a low gear and we trundled slowly through them, coming out at a short straight stretch that bottomed out into a wide inside curve, a rocky cliff looming over it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z An enormous glowing vending machine looms where the bed should be, filled not with candy but rows of razor-sharp tactical knives and armor-piercing pistols. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z As the Jürgen Eichman looms ever larger in the night sky, as big as the moon and then bigger, people around the world realize something is wrong. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z With alarming speed, inches of finished cloth rolled up on the beams at the front of the looms. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He loomed over the captives, watching them wriggle. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Not more than a hundred yards away, through the tall trees in the garden, across the mown lawns and the tidy flower-beds, the massive shape of the Palace itself loomed through the darkness. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A sunken temple loomed up out of the greyness as Yandry and Duck leaned upon their poles and paced slowly from prow to stem, pushing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He spotted a harp in one corner, a loom in another, and a big cooking pot where the stew was bubbling, filling the cavern with luscious smells. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Finally, Lyddie managed to make a clumsy knot, and Diana pulled the lever, and the loom shuddered to life once more. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The burden of all that responsibility loomed over her. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The taller, leaner cop looms over me, and I duck my head in a pose of mock humility. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Below the balcony, in the ballroom, the dancers whirled in their dresses that had been spun from ordinary human-made looms. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I spend the subway ride home drafting the text in my notes app—which of course makes the whole thing loom even larger. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The Seattle skyline looms behind us, all the steel and glass shining like salmon scales in the sunlight. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Beyond loomed a cavernous stone hall, the largest she had ever seen. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was tall and wide, covering the whole end of one building and looming over the street. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Far ahead and to their right the Misty Mountains loomed; ever darker and taller they grew as the miles went by. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Jam stared in silence as Pet stood up from its crouch, its full length looming through the air. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The five hundred dollars Mama owes the bank makes it worse, looming over me like a giant spider spinning a web around my family. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Lily’s unlined face looms, years younger, and then a man, smiling. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Out from behind trees, springing off branches came the enemy, their leader looming like a genie out of the water gourd. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Lacking walls, it could not be defended, not from the south, or east, or west; but it was only the north that concerned the Night's Watch, and to the north loomed the Wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Throughout Europe, industrial capitalism, coupled with military force on a frightening scale, loomed ominously. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The statue of the Dharma Raja had moved and now loomed above her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “What are you doing here?” he growled, looming in the space of the open window so that Thyon, surprised, stumbled back. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She had done so well on her two, then three, machines that Mr. Marsden gave her a fourth loom to tend. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t recognize the form looming over me until my palms slammed into Frankie’s chest. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But just blocks away from their uncle’s house, scattered evidence of gentrification— driven by the looming presence of Temple University—had started to manifest. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He raised himself up higher, looming over the ruins. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z It loomed up out of his life like the shadow of a building falling over you in the cold afternoon—a building you do not want to enter, though you know you must. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z And it was in Eton’s ancient boathouse, just across the river from the looming eminence of Windsor Castle, that George had grown up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z After riding for about an hour, slowly and without talking, they saw the Hedge looming suddenly ahead. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Actually his view was screened by a tall line of beans on poles; but above and far beyond them the grey top of the hill loomed up against the sunrise. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Majestic mountains loom to the north, but they are a tease; the Idaho of snowy peaks and ski resorts, plus a handful of militias and survivalists, is a long way off. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind Grover, at the far end of the block, a shadowy figure loomed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He was lost; but he would not cringe; he would not lie, not in the presence of that white mountain looming behind him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Skillful as were the men of Phaiakia in ship handling at sea, so were these women skilled at the loom, having this lovely craft and artistry as talents from Athena. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky turned white and then peach-colored in the sunset light as a giant cloud loomed overhead. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It came imperceptibly, as the lecture distracted his attention, and suddenly it was looming within an inch of his nose. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The spots consolidated into a twenty-foot-tall shadowy figure looming next to the Doors. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z As he told me the story, we stood there on the path with the voices of the party circling like bats, never landing, never appearing, just looming in the darkness around us. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Still clutching the scythes, the massive golem came to a halt in front of Dale, looming over him. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z At that very moment the dark form of a rider loomed up right in front of him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I saw nothing, except that leering face, looming closer and closer. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Before us looms the theater room’s giant Cube, a four-sided projector screen with one side pointed toward each block of seats. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z She was almost as tall as her grandmother, but now the woman loomed above her, standing on the dock. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z His deputies loomed behind him, but they weren’t singing “Sweet Adeline.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s as if a tornado had passed through, depositing debris everywhere—debris that looms like a shadow of terrible events I can’t even begin to imagine. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The red walls of the Inner City loomed tall and forbidding, and every gold-studded gate door was guarded by at least two soldiers, their silver armor reflecting in the hot sun. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z She knew Mr. Marsden was beginning to keep track of the girls who stopped by Diana’s looms. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He was a foul fog, a choking murk of evil vapors, looming and slithering on the ivory floor. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z I used to take some pride in that—the caution of owls when my shape looms in, the alarm I stir in these giant northern wolves. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something vaguely unsettling about the way Rasheed seemed to loom over the woman. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I was startled by the sight of Master Lorren looming over me in his dark master’s robes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Although it was surely an illusion, the city, with Table Mountain looming behind it, looked agonizingly close, as if one could almost reach out and grasp it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And then they were beneath the bridge, white walls heavy with curtains of grey fungus looming to either side, water foaming angrily around them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She told Mr. Marsden to assign the girl a loom next to her own. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z As massive as a twelve- story building, it loomed over our heads, leaning 30 degrees past vertical. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z A shambling form loomed in the shadows of the alley. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I stopped talking and he didn’t learn nothing about his grandma’s loom. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was obvious he was tentative, the knee looming as if all the bone and flesh and ligament and cartilage lay there exposed for everyone to take a shot at like some carnival game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been the work of years, and through it all, the citadel had loomed over their heads, out of their reach. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And these houses loomed like hothouse sunflowers among the rows of weeds that were the rented houses. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z A wall of dark clouds loomed up behind them, churning like a kettle of milk left on the fire too long. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There were people looming over her—four of them, a woman and three men, strangers all—peering down, blinking, looking concerned. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z But he could not help but think of the gallows, just beyond the town gates, how they had loomed up at him through the dark of the night like a warning. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The acrobat tent looms higher than the tents surrounding it and the sign that reads defiance of gravity swings over the entrance only a few paces away. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Fear cuts deeper than swords, she remembered as the top of a pothelm loomed up behind the hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The 25,790-foot ramparts of Nuptse defined the right wall of the Cwm, Everest’s massive Southwest Face formed the left wall, and the broad frozen thrust of the Lhotse Face loomed above its head. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I somehow forgot this was a thing looming on the horizon. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “You want her loom?” the woman called after her. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, when Mr. Marsden got up to stroll the room he always stopped at her looms. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z A new thought had occurred to her, inspired by the irregular hedge looming off to the side of the road. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It was marked by two tall white posts that suddenly loomed up on their right. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z When Katie saw Johnny’s derby looming up outside the window, she screamed and ran around frantically looking for the gun. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The images she’d seen had almost overwhelmed her: Percy and Annabeth helpless at the feet of those black metal doors, the dark giant looming over them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Out of this haze of relatives and authority figures loomed a dominating presence that would come and go. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But late at night, the building loomed, looking not at all the way I remembered it. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But in the state I was in, that height loomed like a mountain. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There some paces from him sat the great beast, and all seemed dark about it, and above it loomed the Nazgûl Lord like a shadow of despair. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Suddenly his thick hand is at my throat and his dark form looms over me. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Judith had been carefully hoarding a small store of linens since childhood, adding one cherished bit from time to time, and her loom and needle had worked busily. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z A figure loomed in the doorway of the house they’d just left. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The light was dim, but any obstructions loomed as darker shadows and he was able to make his way quickly along. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z As she turned to ride back, a ftrepit loomed ahead, directly in her path. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She stopped and looked back at Westover Hall, which was now completely dark, looming on the hillside beyond the woods. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Now, the cell house is looming over us like the world’s biggest school for bad boys—the kind of place where guys go in and never come out. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Huge clay cliffs loomed over her in colors of chocolate, pearl, and rust. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Suddenly, it loomed in my head as the place for an ambush. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even as he spoke the dark edge of the forest loomed up straight before them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z At that moment the great black shape of Anborn loomed up behind him and came down on him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Mom’s shadow loomed up against the screen door. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, as the wind moaned across the heath and the Crochan loomed before him like an iron shadow, he thought once again of the brooch, and he buried his face in his hands and wept. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z In the darkness, the trees loomed close and menacing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “My mother died when I was three, my old man drank himself to death, and,” he paused and looked towards the church which already loomed ahead of us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z During the day at the looms, she went over in her head the bits of the story that she had puzzled out the night before. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “Then I better get going,” Minli said, but her smile faded as she looked at the bridge in front of her that seemed to loom into nothingness. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z They loomed overhead, becoming closely packed and gray with rain. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Even though the Mediterranean loomed far out of sight, beyond hills, neighborhoods and coastal towns, Liyana imagined she could feel sea breezes brushing her face. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She shivered, though jumping was hardly any more dangerous than standing here beneath the looming towers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Henry Foster loomed up through the twilight of the Embryo Store. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyddie was given another loom and then another, and even at the increased speed of each loom, she could tend all four and felt a satisfying disdain for those who could not do the work. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Before long, Beechwood is ahead of us, the familiar outline looming. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The roof of the apartment building loomed below him like the prow of a battleship. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Made me feel just good to see one again after all those years and I said, “It’s a loom for weaving cloth.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She sits at a massive machine that boasts three spindle wheels and two looms. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The small heads watched him come from their spikes, their tarred and flayed faces looming larger with every yard; between them stood little Beth Cassel, noosed and crying. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A hardened face loomed over me, beard like a bear’s pelt. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z There was nothing but Mo’s voice and the pictures forming in their minds from the letters on the page, like the pattern of a carpet taking shape on a loom. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The three peaks loomed before them, darkling in the twilight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I could feel the terror that loomed over the church as people turned around to see these men, who had surely not come for good deeds. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When she turned back, she saw the polling location, which in Bumblebee was the sheriff’s office, looming ahead. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Then past the driver's head I could see a wall of buildings looming beyond the windshield. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She spent most of the day in front of a big loom, head bent, arms moving back and forth. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Hissing black trains loomed up on either side, anxious to swallow them. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Once the trumpet fanfare faded away, a chorus of men began to sing, their voices blending like threads of silk on a loom. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The captain looms over me, seeming so much larger than life when I’m this incapacitated. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z And the trees in the wood behind the hill loomed so watchfully that it seemed he was not alone. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She glanced at the images in the northern doorway—the massive dark shape looming over Percy and Annabeth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Many tall men heavily cloaked stood beside him, and behind them in the mist loomed a wall of stone. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z On his next swing, the darkness prevented Thomas from seeing a new wall looming in front of him until it was too late; the corridor ended and turned to the right. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Grenn loomed over him, thick of neck and red of face, with three of his friends behind him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Suddenly there loomed up a soldier on horseback, his eyes on the search. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Its front end, the size of a soccer field, looms over us. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z As Christmas loomed on the horizon, our paltry time together shrank even further. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z There seemed to be a great blackness looming slowly out of the East, eating up the faint blurred stars. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z An entire wall of gears and hydraulic systems loomed beside him, the floor of the ship that had now become a wall. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Amari had often imagined new patterns for the cloth, and longed to join the men at the long looms, but girls were forbidden to do so. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z At first all she saw was stone and trees, the looming mass of the great mountain shrouded in night, as black as a starless sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z On either side ahead a darkness began to loom through the mist; and he guessed that they were at last approaching the gap in the hills, the north-gate of the Barrow-downs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Behind the house loomed an immense brown barn, at least five stories tall, topped by a weather vane. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Percy remembered the god Tartarus in physical form, looming over him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A monstrous hill of snow loomed right in the middle. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Though she remained attentive, occasionally her mind wandered to her own task that loomed ahead. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you”—Tendai could hear Father looming out of his chair—“are you saying my son’s a coward?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Over them both loomed a giant in armor made of stone, but when he opened his visor, there was nothing inside but darkness and thick black blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Hayes pushed his way to the front of the group, looming at Clancy’s side like a cannon waiting to be aimed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The bole of an oak loomed before her, and she lunged to drive her point through it, grunting "Joffrey, Joffrey, Joffrey." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I had Darin, who loomed so large in my life that I thought him immortal as the stars. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Above the looming outlines of the mountains, the children of Inti and Mama Killa twinkled in the dark sky, a familiar sight in such an unfamiliar place. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z As it loomed up, it seemed to the fox to be as large as the house his humans lived in. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Mrs. O’Leary loomed behind him, licking the wounds on his masters head so Daedalus’s hair stood up funny. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z To make matters worse, the path broke off entirely and sheer cliffs loomed ahead of them. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The watchers loomed like phantoms, silent and shadowed, their faces just blurs. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Where before the green dale had lain, its grassy slopes lapping the ever-mounting hills, there now a forest loomed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Two of the captives who had been yoked together grew hysterical as they approached the looming structure and leaped without warning into the sea. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Other structures loomed in the distance, and beyond it all lingered Lake Michigan’s vast liquid darkness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I looked up into his face, looming close above me like the monster on a movie screen. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The wall suddenly loomed, and her blood throbbed in her veins. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Jessica made me aware of another event looming on the horizon — she called the first Tuesday of March to ask my permission to invite Mike to the girls’ choice spring dance in two weeks. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The words loom nearer still and crawl into my ear. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z East Harlem loomed below and ahead of us. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z A large wooden house and a barn loomed before them, and hidden in the surrounding woods were five-hundred-gallon copper stills. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z All summer I have spent every free evening at home, holed up in my room with my laptop and my summer reading looming on my shelves. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Panic lanced through him at the thought of remaining married; without Ifemelu, the future loomed as an endless, joyless tedium. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I have to loom large over a freshman for about two minutes before he freaks out enough to give me his space. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Mr. Richardson, in his jacket and tie, had left long before, but he loomed in the background, solid and impressive and important, like a mountain range on the horizon. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My head felt like it had been microwaved in aluminum foil I opened my eyes and saw a large shadowy figure looming over me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z As they passed another quad, Rishi saw it looming on the corner. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z And the mountains loom so much closer, their shadows broad and angular against the night sky. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Ahead of us, something black and skeletal seemed to loom up from the middle of the road. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The Ice Court loomed over the harbor, perched on the cliff like a sullen gull with feathers ruffled, its white stone walls lit from below, glowing against the night sky. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Everyone wandered like ghosts beneath the guard towers with the mountains looming on either side of them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The character said something about seeing his future stretched out in front of him and how it—the future—was just a looming empty space. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Mom might have been petite, but her body still had a habit of looming in the doorway. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Something large and white was looming up over him—about to run him down. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In the huge Colosseum, with thousands of cheering ghosts, the god Bacchus staring down at him, and the two twelve-foot giants looming over him, Percy felt as small and insignificant as a bug. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z An accusation was enough to ruin a person's reputation; in the shadow of a looming Soviet menace, many Americans jettisoned the most basic standards of due process, fairness, or the presumption of innocence. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Then he turned his head sideways, focusing on the mountains that loomed over the town, the same mountains that were nestled in his heart. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For hours on end the whir of the spinning wheel and the twang of the loom were the only sounds. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Time was looming vast and terrifying before them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The fence loomed up behind them, its top wire humming and crackling in the dry air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A boy’s cap hangs on the wall; at the back looms a massive wardrobe, mothballed shirts hung inside. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Tall pine trees loomed over the valley, casting pitch-black shadows, though the morning was sunny. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z But he was not any happier to see his father looming there in the hall. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind them, just poking into the picture, was the front wing of a car—certainly not theirs, and further off, an oasthouse looming over a brick wall. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Or maybe I just don’t want to press the issue with Edward’s death looming over both of us. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Out of this haze of relatives and authority figures loomed a dominating presence that would come and go. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The chimney pots on the roofs...and on some, the shadowing looming of pigeon cotes...sometimes, faintly heard, the sleepy cooing of pigeons...the twin spires of the Church, remotely brooding over the dark tenements …. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The old stand of trees loomed in front of me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The authority of the law loomed big in his mind; he remembered, “You and your family will be in serious trouble.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He slumps over the ropes propping him up, and his torso slides down the stake, and every now and then Volkheimer comes out of the shadows, looming fantastically huge, and the prisoner straightens again. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I told everyone about Mr. Terupt’s early concussions, and the bleeding, and the looming surgery. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z The weavers at the Massachusetts Corporation had all refused the agent’s demand that they each tend four looms and take a piece rate reduction as well. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The old Willis house loomed ahead, dark and crooked against the starry sky. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The afternoon sun was shining through the large kitchen window He had time to think how miraculous the light was and then it disappeared and Mig’s face loomed into view. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z All eight hydra heads loomed over him, ready to melt him into a pool of sludge. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The cruise ship was now looming in front of us—our ride toward Florida and the Sea of Monsters. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “Please—no—” She ran down the aisle between the looms toward the voice and saw in the shadows Brigid, eyes white with fear, and Mr. Marsden’s back. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z So she lifted and lowered the oar, watching the icy water fall in clear droplets from the blade, and soon the fortress loomed large ahead of her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Behind her loomed a man shorter than she, but as imposing. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z All around, taller mountains loomed like strong guardians protecting the sacred space. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z She reached out toward the beam of the loom to steady herself. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I drifted closer and closer, until the Maafa loomed over me, and still I floated on. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I drive through a menacing area filled with deserted warehouses—Dickey, be gone!—until the tent comes looming up out of the dusk. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Heavy clouds loomed above, but behind the clouds the moon was nearly full and lent a faint radiance to the whole sky. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Nearer and nearer it drew, looming blacker, like the oncoming of a wall of night at the last end of the world. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The Wall loomed before them, glimmering palely in the light of the half moon. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Everything around her was moving, and now there was enough light that she could see the large metal filing cabinet looming above her head. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She was too tired now at night to copy out a page of Oliver to paste to her loom. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z By chance, she saw a dark patch looming in the murk ahead of them, and Gubina pulled up the nose of her plane to avoid hitting it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Behind loomed up the Buck Hill; and out of it, through stray shrouds of mist, shone many round windows, yellow and red. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z In the charcoal picture of my parents’ room drawn just after my father disappeared, the bed looms large. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When I open my eyes, the low roof of my quarters looms over me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Their figures loomed out of the mist beneath us. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z By now, the piano has become an omen of looming disaster. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Its thin white light lit up the faces of the rocks and drenched the cold frowning walls of the cliff, turning all the wide looming darkness into a chill pale grey scored with black shadows. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “And how many looms are you tending at this time?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The elephant looms against the far sidewall, an enormous beast the color of storm clouds. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Capricorn’s village loomed over them like a fortress. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, reports about a looming Washington-Rochambeau attack on New York City spread through Clinton’s spy network. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the house looms cold and empty and dark. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The cliffs loomed higher and ever higher overhead as he approached the mountain-root from which they sprang, and the lane of water grew narrower. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z You can go and find honest work slaving away at the looms or assembly lines, but who knows? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The Calliope Inn that loomed up on her right like a haunted house, all eaves and gables, was very much not her home. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Did Aaron Giebel see the iceberg looming as he built his San Simeon and dreamed his dream of cows strong enough to pull buildings? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The interview is quick, cut off mid-sentence: Anderson Cooper’s face looms on the screen overhead like a disgustingly handsome Hunger Games cannon, announcing they’re ready to call Florida. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z From our balcony, most of Phnom Penh looms only two or three stories high, with few buildings standing as tall as eight. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Weeks before she had begun tending her own loom without Dianas help. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z This august building was hardly difficult for me to locate, its looming spire being ever-visible wherever one goes in Salisbury. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The Seattle skyline looms behind us, all sharp vertical lines and blurry grayness. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I wanted to smile, but we were driving past our house just then, and the sight of the looming black gates and white walls stiffened my lips. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z When he caught his first glimpse of the Wall looming above the tops of an ancient gnarled oak, Jon was vastly relieved. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And yet the boy on the table and the bag in his hands loomed larger than life up there. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She pointed to the stalled loom and the broken warp thread that must be tied. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Ahead there loomed now against the dusky sky the bleak and treeless backs of the hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Like ghostly figures, large trees loomed out of the almost solid mass. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The houses are massive, and the streets are lined with looming trees. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z As Arion closed the distance, the glacier loomed so large, Hazel got vertigo just trying to take it all in. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But I’ve always wondered if the looming dark shadows gliding just under the surface might munch off a toe or two. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The blue phantom ships loomed up behind them, drawing steadily apace. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z And then it took shape in the mist: a dark house, which loomed at them out of the formless whiteness. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Max and I are tucked against the side of a looming archway, our backs to the traffic of people. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Behind her loomed a burly cameraman in a parka, though all Mrs. McCullough registered was the barrel of a lens and a blinking red light like one glowing eye. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If the weaving room is short of workers, Mr. Marsden may assign me another loom. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z A few wind- whipped and decrepit Victorian mansions, remnants of a lost era of seagoing optimism, loomed out of the snowfall on the town’s sporadic hills. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She blinked in the sudden glare at the wide, dark shadow looming outside. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z From the overarching metal frame crowning each machine, wooden harnesses, carrying hundreds of warp threads drawn from a massive beam at the back of each loom, clanked up and down. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z A glass cylinder looms in the center of the deck, upon which a list of names and numbers constantly updates and loops. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In many ways the looming match was analogous to a team of National Basketball Association all-stars playing a college team. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z So when the child regained consciousness, she was lying on the kitchen floor under a heavy quilt, trying to connect the pain between her legs with the face of her mother looming over her. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The black hulks of the broken ships stood out in the sun, looming monuments to a world that had fallen apart. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Before the journey ended, Catherine would be able to sleep anywhere, on the ground, in a haystack, under a bush, and this rat-infested fodder house would loom in her memory like a king’s palace. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It no longer looms over his life, darkening it without warning as it used to do. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Over at Koch’s apartment, he and Froelick made adjustments as their next deadline loomed. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z A massive dark shape, vaguely humanoid, now loomed over them, its foot raised as if to crush Percy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We got off at the observation deck on the forty-second floor to find that the garden, which loomed so large to its tenders, was hopelessly hidden from view by buildings. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z With the end of the world looming, I can finally see the pointlessness of everything. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z At last they came to Rath Dínen and hastened towards the House of the Stewards, looming in the twilight under its great dome. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The shadows of a thousand fires loomed in front of her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The broken gutter edge loomed up, surprisingly bringing with it a desperate chance. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z My fear was gone now and he loomed before me like a stranger, like a man I had never seen before, a man with whom I could never share a moment of intimate living. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a cot in one corner and an old-fashioned loom in the other, a length of white cloth half woven on the frame. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z It was the sound of death looming over me and my sisters, who were still unconscious on the ground beside me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z There’s a terrible quiet looming everywhere—at the library, at the drugstore where I pick up Mother’s medicine, on High Street where I buy typewriter ink, in our own house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z And this was both odd and confusing to me, because ever since we’d arrived, the outside world had loomed in my imagination as someplace inaccessible yet wonderfully desirable. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z What I didn’t know was that a bigger threat was looming— not just for our family and our school, but for all of Pakistan. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Justin loomed over me, standing at almost five foot six in fifth grade, and his skinny frame made him appear even taller. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I remember how I looked out of the frosted pane and saw the looming great North Star and lost it, as though the sky had shut its eye. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She suddenly felt shy around Diana, who seemed even more imposing away from the looms when her lovely, elegant voice was pitched rich and low like the call of a mourning dove. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z As our teacher spoke to us, Jupiter loomed behind her, filling half the sky, its Great Red Spot churning slowly just over her left shoulder. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They both did anticipate, albeit from decidedly different perspectives, the looming sectional crisis between North and South that their own partnership stretched across. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The bowls on the counter, the canisters and stoneware jars loom round and heavy through the shadowy light. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Atop a building across the street, above the heads of the people, loomed a flaming cross. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He puts his eye to street level, becomes a god looming over the Latin Quarter. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The cypress tree and the bunkhouse loomed and then dropped back into the mist. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite these very early first steps, neither pottery nor weaving took off until people became sedentary and thereby escaped the problem of transporting pots and looms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He remembered seeing the Red Keep looming ahead of him in the first grey light of dawn. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The cricket began to make frantic signs that the mouse should look up and see what was looming over him. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He loomed larger and larger until he seemed to blend into a great needle. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought only of reaching the gate, praying it was open, I saw it loom up ahead. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He had confessed and death loomed now for certain in a public future. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a table, a chest, a bedstead with a faded quilt, a spinning wheel, and a small loom. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z At length they were once more aware of a wall looming up, and once more a stairway opened before them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Then I saw the train loom up behind her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “You,” Mr. Curtain repeated, looming over the children and glowering in particular at Reynie. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The palace loomed east of them, but to the west was a line of trees. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z A long, looming shadow quivered in front of him for a moment; he blinked and Ron Weasley came into focus, grinning down at him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Their trees surround you, loom over you, press in from all sides. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In all my wishing for a job I had not thought of how I would be treated, and now it loomed important, decisive, sweeping down beneath every other consideration. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A woman’s voice called to her from the shed, and she saw that it was Marlena, already at the loom so early. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He wove among the chimneys, his feet slipping and sliding over snow, keeping in mind that white looming bulk which he had glimpsed ahead of him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The wire was looming overhead, and Ligaroti was lunging for the lead. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Out in the blue water, the shadows of the tankers still loomed, randomly scattered like toys, but nothing else remained. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, a white-painted garage door loomed out of the darkness, coming up fast. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Davos had almost forgotten how high and thick the walls of Storm's End loomed up close. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I come to with Miss Lumley’s face looming inches away from me, scowling more than ever, as if I’ve made a mess, with a ring of girls around her jostling for a better look. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Sauropod necks loomed over the rowhouses, carrying commuters back home after a long day grinding in Manhattan. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The conversation could have loomed, a mountain range of awkwardnesses. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the horse gate, plundered gods and stolen he-roes loomed to either side of them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She couldn’t have some dummy monkeying with her looms. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z At this same time, the spring production of Lincoln: The True Story of Honest Abe’s Honesty was well into rehearsals, with opening night looming. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “We could use your help. And you’re old enough to be on the looms now! With your mother gone, you must need the work!” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to Harriet that the clatter of the loom and the whirr and thump of the spinning wheel went on day and night, too. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z What loomed before his eyes was a huge, complicated vista, crowded with more detail than the mind could absorb. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandmother loomed large on the monitor, her head tiny and her torso enormous. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z At the altar the coffin loomed in its snow pallor of flowers—the black shadow of something that wasn't there. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The marmalade cat loomed up out of the half-light. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It was as if nothing had occurred between them, except that he never came over to her loom to pat and encourage her. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z A forest composed of stacks of used books loomed around him, the usual spicy-vanilla scent of pipe tobacco and old paperbacks wafting in the air. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Behind them the ancient castle loomed against file stars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Craning her neck, she saw Mendigo looming over her, using his foot to hold her in place. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Sometimes land loomed where there was no land and flicked out like a bubble as the children watched. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The moon shone and the trees loomed frighteningly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “It will get better with practice,” she said gruffly, anxious to get the stilled looms roaring once more. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The pictures looked poignant and powerful, looming large on the walls. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z In one corner stood a wide loom with a good many of the threads straggling down. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Steam rose from the water day and night, and the wall that loomed above was thick with moss. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z With the deadline for the next day’s paper looming, Bagdikian grabbed the articles the reporters had typed up and jumped on the back of a copy editor’s motorcycle. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A face that now looms in my nightmares. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A moss-eaten stone monolith loomed over the road, fifty feet tall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Above the looming cliff, the pale wadded clouds reminded her of Einar's sheep when, after the snowmelt, they still huddled for warmth but with heads down moved across the meadow nibbling at new shoots. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The rustling poplars loom large in the darkness. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z But tall, quiet Diana moved from loom to loom like the silent angel in the lion’s den, keeping Daniel from harm. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z But when the town approached, and traffic lights loomed on wires in the distance, she went even slower. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Above him loomed a grotesque fat man with a forked yellow beard, holding a wooden mallet and an iron chisel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Only some of the overhead lighting has been left on, and Alex can see an enormous chandelier looming high in the rotunda, tendrils and bubbles of glass in blues and greens and yellows. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In front of them, the fort’s east wall loomed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z That weapon was unnecessary now, as both Jefferson and Madison understood, because the superior organization of the Republicans at the state level virtually assured their victory in the looming presidential election. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z String and spit and wire and a voice on the radio offering a loom on which to spin his dreams. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She shut down her own looms and one of Brigid’s, and followed the clerk down the stairs and out across the yard to the low building that housed the counting room and the offices. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z You must tell the truth or you will never leave this nightmare, the monster said, looming dangerously over him now, its voice scarier than Conor had ever heard it. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z He went left, and the building loomed ahead of him, a gray, white, and black monstrosity. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The smoke suddenly cleared, and a familiar shape loomed out of the darkness. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Though each one of them was heaving like every breath might be their last, they didn’t slow down, and soon the big hunk of scarred metal loomed above their heads. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z She smiled ruefully at Brigid as the girl returned to her own looms. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Marlena laughed and her feet took up the rapid pace on the treadle that caused the rhythmic motion of the loom. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so big I couldn’t even imagine the loom that must have made it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “I help there. Not with the actual weaving. But I clean up the scraps and help prepare the looms. It is work I can do with my hands and arms. And I am strong.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Am I dead?” she asked the face looming over hers. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z But because they had called to her in a friendly way, Kira moved through the shed, through the clatter of the wooden looms at work, and picked up the scraps from the floor. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On either side of the statue loomed two dark doorways, ten feet high, with a gruesome stone face carved over each archway. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z |
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