| 单词 | beetling |
| 例句 | Ahead are beetling rocks and dark blue glancing Amphitrite, surging, roars around them. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Clive Pike, to my left, eyes beetling bigger than humanly possible, g-force ribbling his face. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z This beetling between England and Ireland would be repeated throughout his life. Review | Jonathan Swift: Not (entirely) the misanthrope you thought you knew 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Out here, the scritch and creep and slither, the skitter and croak of being, bee-ing, beetling, of spider, of mouse, of frog. Linda Newbery: following the Walking Man 2010-08-09T15:16:00Z And then everyone returns to their black hired cars and the beetling traffic on the Rue de Rivoli until the next flash of brilliance. On the Runway Blog: On and Off the Fashion Grid 2012-07-06T18:05:15Z But the exterior of "O'Rourke's old hall," gray, frowning, and ivy-covered, is well enough; it stands on a beetling precipice, round which a noble river wheels its course. Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z "I am, worthy sir," replied a short, stout man with heavy, beetling brows, who stood his ground doggedly. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z Besides, there can scarcely be more opposite pictures than that of a man gathering samphire, or kids browsing, amongst beetling rocks; and the commanding and awe-inspiring position in which Gray ingeniously places his bard. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 111, December 13, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-04-08T02:00:23.437Z But though secure upon this ledge, they were quite as helpless as their companions, for the beetling face of the rocks defied their utmost efforts to scale them unaided. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z Weird mountain ranges crossed our path And frowned on us in seeming wrath; Their beetling crags and icy brows Well might a hundred fears arouse. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z We lay in the deep shadow of a beetling precipice of such immense altitude, that the snow-white morning clouds, as they floated onward, like messengers from heaven, swept its summit. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z Before them the nearing crags of Spera rose abrupt and beetling towards the sky. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; Ð called also beetling machine. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z He remembered that two doors away was a narrow passage, which leaving the Rue St. Honor� turned at right angles under a beetling archway, to emerge in the Rue du Roule. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z The superciliary ridges often project and give the beetling brow that is sometimes so remarkable. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z A moment, and I again saw him on the beetling rocks, whence the female had just disappeared; then he, too, was lost in the darkness. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z Although the warp yarn is made very soft and pliable by boiling and beetling, the weaver always tallows it in order to make it work more easily. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Almost opposite us in a beetling archway, the bowed head and shoulders of a man stood up above the common level. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Lord Clare looked at Lord Camden from under his beetling penthouse. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Grand mountains these, rugged and austere, with many a beetling crag. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z That beetling steep, that blazing wood,— Red flame! and red flame everywhere! Songs of the Mexican Seas 2012-02-06T03:00:16.913Z The train runs saucily along under beetling crags, whence the gods of the hills may well look down in wonder and displeasure on this noisy invasion of their solitude. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z He was, as I first recollect him, a muscular dark-complexioned man, with a keen black eye, cased in an extraordinary perplexity of wrinkle, and shaded by a heavy beetling eyebrow. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z Well, there it is yonder," and he handed me his glass as he spoke; "you see that large beetling cliff, with the olives at the foot. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z When morning dawned they found they were almost against the base of a beetling cliff, with overhanging rocks all around them, dotted with the fires of the natives. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z They could not stand or stay; Before the beetling steep, the sea! Songs of the Mexican Seas 2012-02-06T03:00:16.913Z The one on the right is a Bolshevik; he has a low forehead and beetling brows—a most unpleasant man. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z The tops of these isles were smooth and green, their sides were beetling cliffs and rocks of brown, with the waves breaking into foam at the foot, and white-winged gulls wheeling high around them. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z Every old sailor knew what that cloud was—a wall of beetling cliffs. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z At first, the shore was lined with beetling ramparts of trap-rock. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z His complexion was a dusky red, while his choleric blue eyes peered beneath a pair of beetling bushy eyebrows. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z The sea, close down on our right beneath the green-topped beetling cliffs, was as blue as ever I had known it to be. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Why, a black and beetling wall of rock rising sheerly perpendicular up out of the water, and towering to a height of over one thousand feet. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z Then at the head of the bay, only on the east side, stretching seawards to that bold promontory, was a line of high, black, beetling cliffs, the home of those wheeling sea-birds. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z On what a "beetling ledge" the favourite of royalty tracks his uncertain way! Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z It looked as though its swift erosion would soon bring the crumbling and beetling bank down, and the path would lead straight into the river. Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z Sing-ho! for the Southerner’s meteor flag As ’tis flung in its pride to the breeze, From the happy glen and the beetling crag, ’Tis the pride of the land and the seas. Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z There were no beetling cliffs—no firs, no pines, no dark hemlocks—nothing in the least suggestive of gloom or tragedy. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z And now, Hephæstus, thou must needs fulfil The mandate of our Father, and with links Indissoluble of adamantine chains Fasten against this beetling precipice This guilty god. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z Moreover, its back was close to the straight and beetling mountain cliff. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z I had rather expected to see the face of a dandy, but instead a pair of black eyes under almost beetling black brows burned steadily into mine. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z What beetling chests, what muscle-swollen sleeves, what dark, pugnacious, shaven faces! Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z The forepart of the lugger was wedged into a cave, close under a black beetling cliff, fully fifty feet in height. Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z Arabia's battle-crown, And dwellers in the beetling town Mount Caucasus sublimely nears,— An iron squadron, thundering down With the sharp-prowed spears. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z But snow was all over the landscape now, save where dark rocks jutted through the white, and the ocean, foam-flecked, dashed high over the beetling cliffs. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z And what shall I do with the gallant Percival de Vere, after he has slid down the rope from his beetling dungeon tower? Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Along the shores, where the solid compactness of beetling cliffs holds back the sweep of the tide, the ice piles itself in mountainous ridges and chains. The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the ?Discovery? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.487Z He drew his beetling eyebrows low and walked out on the lawn. The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South 2011-07-10T02:00:23.033Z We proceeded to it through a delightful sylvan path on the bank of the river, and under the beetling brow of Craig-er-esk. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z Shipwrights' hammers resounded along the shores, and were echoed back by the beetling cliffs. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z A beetling cliff sheered up behind to a great height, but in front and around the approaches to the place were open. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z Dark bush covers the valley on either hand, broken only by a beetling krantz, frowning down as it were upon great jagged rocks which, hurled at some remote period from its face, lie embedded beneath. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Rarely can he vaguely suggest a natural aisle beneath the celestial dome, a rock-walled cave whose roof soars into obscurity, or a fairy grotto backed by a beetling cliff. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z Mr. Davenport entered—a tall, thin, wiry man, with beetling brows and irascible eyes—and cautiously shut the door. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z All that may be true," said I, "but not all your assertions can ever make me believe that that dusky mass of hair, brushed back so wildly from those beetling brows, is like my own. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z He retained his strength and activity, and turned them to good account in baffling his pursuers among those beetling cliffs. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z With wondering gaze the Normans watch him scaling, ridge after ridge, the beetling brow of the hill far above them, like a stag bounding from the hunter. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z You cannot fail to recognize how truly Scott describes the scenery; the “beetling brow” is there, and the “ivied banners” still hang from the crags as when the minstrel saw them. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Then, "he supposed a Jew would be like the word Jew -- small and dark and beetling." 2011 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts 2011-04-18T19:53:00Z The shadow of a fell intent showed itself on the beetling brow of Will Walford. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z The great beetling cliff towered far above, the jagged line of its summit serrating the zenith. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z They are then damped on a water mangle, and beamed on to the heavy iron bowl of the beetling machine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Whatever you think of the Causeway, you will certainly be impressed when you pass out between the clustered columns of the Giant's Gateway, and start on the walk under the beetling cliffs beyond. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z The waves boiled, and seethed, and foamed, and lashed themselves in fury against the beetling rocks. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z Hardly had he dragged it to safety when, with another roar of sundered ice, their foothold gaped again and left them but a scanty shelf at the foot of the beetling berg. Polaris of the Snows 2011-03-02T03:00:28.900Z Superstition has wrapped the beetling cliff and the gloomy ravine in her dark embrace, for here the captive toils in the bowels of the earth to procure the stubborn iron. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z A beetling machine of the kind, with four sets of “fallers,” is shown in Fig. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Not a sail of any description was in sight and the beetling cliffs of the Yorkshire coast had long since dipped beneath the horizon. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z A stranger might have remarked his frowning, beetling brow with a little uneasiness, but would have taken heart from the energetic kindliness of the eyes beneath. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z In the faint light of the stars it towered a sheer and beetling pile. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z Around, the prospect was wild, gloomy, and unearthly, beetling basaltic cones and jagged slabs of shattered larva—the children of some mighty trouble—forming scenery the most shadowy and extravagant. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Flax goods are “closed” by the process of beetling, a long-continued process of hammering, under which the ultimate fibres are more or less subdivided, and at the same time welded or incorporated together. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Dr. Smith proved to be a short, grey-haired man with piercing, black eyes under beetling, black brows, large nose, and a long upper lip. Who? 2011-02-09T03:00:47.380Z Under the shelter of the beetling cliffs, the engineers had constructed dugouts of all sorts. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z Didn't I stand as still as a mouse while he was sitting there with his beetling brows bent in solemn thought? The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z A rather abrupt path led to the species of platform that lay under the beetling rock. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z He eyed the sea, the rocks, the remains of his ship and the beetling crags from which he was cut off by sixty feet of raging water. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z With a sharp exclamation of alarm, Georgia, with one flying leap, sprang clear off the beetling rock, and alighted, cat-like, on her feet by his side. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z Over to the right the Cornell towers, Like medi�val castles beetling o'er the precipice, Were keeping silent watch above it all. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z Redolent of red brick picked out with white, full of large bay windows, beetling balconies, twisted chimneys, gable ends, and gate-houses. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z The man in the mask, walking slowly as in a solemn dance, approached the edge of the beetling precipice. The White Man's Foot 2010-12-28T03:00:15.167Z There it is safe from the carnivorous beasts—the lion, the hyena, the wild-hounds, and the jackal—none of which can reach its secure retreat upon the ledges of the beetling precipice. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z There is no far-spreading forest—no yawning ravine, with "ebon shades and low-browed rocks"—no beetling cliff or precipice, "shagged" with brushwood, as Milton hath it. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 At the side or end next the chasm, rose, beetling over it, a high turret, perforated in several storeys by small embrasures, and surrounded by three tiers of bartisans. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 From Del Fuego's beetling coast To sleety Hebrides He hounded down the Spanish host And swept the flaming seas. The Coast of Bohemia He stood there, his feet braced apart, his white brows beetling at the floor. The Haunted Pajamas Give us the mountain, the beetling crag, the precipice, the gnarled oak, the lightning, and the cloud. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 We open an entrance, narrow and deep, between the beetling Morro and the Punta; and through the entrance, we see the spreading harbor and the innumerable masts. To Cuba and Back Admiral Heyworth, a little bald-headed man with beetling brows and a humorous mouth, took the hand held out to him. John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall Dwelling, field, and brook, Dark wood, and flowery garden, and blue lake, And beetling cliff, and noble human forms, All, all had melted into that pale sea Of billowy vapor rolling round my feet. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 Heavy beetling brows, a dark, saturnine, ill-omened expression, was ever on his features. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) But their savage foes still pressed them; and being too faint to carve their way to one of the "ladders," in the wildness of desperation the five sprang over the beetling cliff. The Spanish Pioneers As the report echoed sharply from the beetling cliffs, the stricken animal gave a mighty leap straight out into space, and came whirling downward like a great white bird with broken wings. Harper's Round Table, July 2, 1895 That gallant commander descended from the heights to Wolfe's Cove, and led his division along the shore of the St. Lawrence, round the beetling promontory of Cape Diamond. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools Harris started and blushed, but at length his misogyny asserted itself and he turned a beetling frown on Miss Duckman. The Competitive Nephew Then followed a moment of tension, for suddenly, as if in default of a parting signal, the beetling brows frowned upon him, and a glance of indecision swept across the face. What a Man Wills Beneath lay a hollow, overhung by the beetling cliff. Harley Greenoak's Charge The turret-like craggy gorge, the beetling rocks high overhead in the gloom, all seemed familiar. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt The old Gunga turned his great black skull, and beneath the beetling porches of his eyes glowered greedily on Nod. The Three Mulla-mulgars His deep-sunk button eyes, beneath beetling brows, indifferently watched the young ones of the tribe playing about the clearing between jungle and cliff. Warrior of the Dawn Captain Douglas wheeled sharply round, and, fixing on me a pair of dark eyes, overshadowed with heavy beetling brows, looked at me sternly without speaking. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands Only the white of his eyeballs moved as the little eyes, under their beetling black brows, darted swiftly about. Brood of the Dark Moon Right up under the cliff—the beetling rock overhead, the slope of the hillside falling away into the basin above described—did our adventurers make their fireless camp. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt An' so he took command, an' hung high upon the beetling mast the pirut flag. The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches Without waiting for a reply, he turned abruptly and stalked off, a lean, bent, shabby figure with a nose like an eagle’s beak and fiercely beetling brows. Under Boy Scout Colors Great is the speed of my coracle, And its stern turned upon Derry: Grievous is my errand over the main, Travelling to Alba of the beetling brows. Ancient Irish Poetry Off the port bow were only beetling sandstone and the countless gulls, flashing white as they tilted the snowy linings of their wings into the sun. The Portal of Dreams Then came the frowning forts, with beetling banks of blood-red clay, with terror-striking black guns, with rugged palisades, and a porcupine bristle of abatis. Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro Something burst forth like a freed djinn—almost instantaneously lengthening, spreading—a thing with beetling brows, low, broad forehead, prognathous jaw, and a hunched, brutally muscular body, with a great club over its swollen shoulder. Political Application But for the most part he sat motionless beside the stove, his eyes, under their beetling brows, fixed intently on the busy figure with that same puzzled questioning in their depths. Under Boy Scout Colors Are you not again to turn the fearless eye of the eagle on the cliff where Tushielaw hangs like a beetling crag? Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III I was the firstcomer—and yet the faint and struggling instinct of hope urged the setting up of a tattered flag or two of sail cloth along the beetling heights. The Portal of Dreams She reached over, and had it almost in her hand, when a slight movement behind her caused her to start a little, lose her balance, and fall headlong over the beetling cliff. Marguerite De Roberval A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier The beetling crags that hang here and there above the gorge hold in their rugged rock sculpture no facial similitudes, no suggestions. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories Our way down the cliff side is hewn out of the beetling rock. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" She was satisfied that the whole retinue, with her husband at their head, were off to the beetling Castle of Tushielaw, from whose heights so many a riever had been precipitated into the Ettrick. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III The eyes, under the great, beetling brows, seemed closed. The Real Hard Sell He was wrapped in a blanket, from shoulders to heels, and was in the midst of a long incantation, flung at the beetling walls with their foot fringe of stone tents. Mystery Ranch Sharply outlined they are now, with dark, irregular shadows upon their precipitous slopes which tell of wild ravines, and rock-lined gorges, and swirling mountain torrents, and great, beetling, gray crags. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories Suddenly, the door leading into the rear room opened, and in the frame stood the heavy figure of Angus Fitzpatrick, his eyes glittering under the beetling white brows. The Wilderness Trail A heavy shock of unruly black hair surmounted a face with beetling black brows and a prognathous jaw. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 They clambered up together over the ancient, cliff-dwellers’ trail, where each foothold was worn deep in the rock; but as they sat within the shadow of the beetling cliff Drusilla sighed again. Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp “Is he expecting you, Missy?” answered the old man, raising his beetling brows and fixing his black eyes on the child. Daddy's Girl One of those grottoes under a beetling cliff, hardly caves, called in the region "rock houses," sufficed to contain the small copper and its appurtenances, himself and his partner and the occasional jolly guest. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories He looked searchingly at his daughter from beneath his beetling brows. The Wilderness Trail The beetling walls narrowed in until the gash was scarcely fifteen feet wide. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 One of these schemers who ruled him was his secretary, Gashford, a man of ugly face, with beetling brows and great flapped ears. Tales from Dickens Then on—on—on till she stood under the beetling cliff which frowned over the shore tavern. A Noble Woman He drew up his horse as they neared an open bluff where the beetling rocks jutted out like a promontory above the sea of foliage below. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories But the eyes, burning as of old, looked fiercely out from under their beetling white brows. The Wilderness Trail The faces, contorted with lust, were hideously leathery and brown, the foreheads small and beetling, and the mouths enormous, with immense yellow teeth. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 There was the same six feet two of bone and muscle, the same beetling brows and the same craggy chin and high forehead surmounted by a shock of unruly black hair. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 That radiant morn the peasants saw A wondrous vision rise in light, They gazed, with blended joy and awe— A castle crowned the beetling height! Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 On the outskirts of the gathering, near the road, stood a tall, beetling individual whom Saint-Prosper addressed, reining in his horse near the wooden rail, which answered for a fence. The Strollers The square face, with its beetling brows, eyes of somber fire, and forehead impressive as a cathedral dome, showed no new lines graven by pain. The Princess Virginia His hair was wiry and stood up from a forehead that might be called beetling. Rim o' the World The southern wall, though shrouded, seemed to rise in an unending series of beetling arêtes. Nan of Music Mountain "Well, how about it?" he asked, with a smile under his beetling white brows. Blue-grass and Broadway Below the rainbow-coloured mist the river again appeared, rushing in fearful power past beetling, frowning cliffs, which directly hid it from view. The Gaunt Gray Wolf A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob He had seen 187 it beetling above him and knew beforehand that he could not hope to scale such a precipice; yet he clambered up to it, still examining the rock with minute care. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation His head was set well forward on his thick, muscular neck, so that he had to look out from under his beetling brows in a manner peculiarly ape-like. In the Orbit of Saturn But the cliff in which the other cave was hollowed was practically inaccessible, and hung beetling far over the entrance. In the Morning of Time The blue sky was brilliant with the morning sun, but the little canyon was still damp and cool in the black shadow of its walls and of the beetling mountains that towered beyond. With Hoops of Steel A sheer precipice fell away a thousand feet below him, and beetling cliffs cut off the sky above. The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West I parried, resenting the beetling brow of the Dour Man. The Prairie Child Of a sudden, he realized as never before a profound tenderness for this country of beetling crags 11 and crystal rivers, of serene spaces and balsamic airs. Heart of the Blue Ridge He answered monosyllabically his mother’s questions, patted the dog’s beetling forehead and thought of nothing at all for practically forty-five minutes. Turn About Eleanor Away up among the beetling crags and in the deep, gloomy caverns we had to stalk the guanacos as the Swiss mountaineer stalks the chamois. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure Land of the whirlpool,—torrent,—foam, Where oceans meet in madd'ning shock; The beetling cliff,—the shelving holm,— The dark insidious rock. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Down into the canyons plunged the set, down into the financial district with its beetling buildings that hemmed in the roaring traffic. Empire The black eyes were glowing with new hope beneath the beetling white brows, as he lifted his gaze to the mountain peaks. Heart of the Blue Ridge From its beetling crags the Castle of Sagan looked out that night with many luminous eyes over the crowding black pine woods and away across the frost-bound, melancholy marshes of the frontier. A Modern Mercenary Upward they beheld nothing but the beetling cliffs meeting together. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains To the northward advanced, in serried columns of black, the beetling clouds that were turning the day into night, the distant booming of aërial artillery thundering forth the preluding cannonade of the charge. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton I no longer look upon bold bluffs and beetling cliffs. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Involuntarily Caldwell looked toward Stelton for orders, as he had always done, and in those beetling brows and threatening eyes saw a menace of personal injury that indicated his course at once. The Free Range "What sort of a man?" asked Patsy, beetling his brows at her. Love of Brothers Foot by foot, and yard by yard, did they examine the beetling front of those high cliffs. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Morse shrugged, turned away to the public desk, and addressed an envelope, the while Lee glared at him from under his heavy beetling brows. Brand Blotters Not so with the great beetling cliffs of sharp red flint now glittering alongside my course for miles and miles far beyond what the eye could reach. The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" It was a land of somber color, with great gray moors, and beetling black cliffs. Hellhounds of the Cosmos He is laughing uproariously, when a lean fellow comes running from the very edge of those beetling cliffs which jut far out into the gray, green Atlantic. Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure But there it rested; and had done so for years—perhaps for ages—suspended over the beetling chasm, as if the touch of a feather would precipitate it into the gulf below! The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Bid me leap from yon beetling crag into the billows' angry roar—" "Will you stop that, or shall I go into the house? A Pessimist In Theory and Practice It was a square-faced man with beetling brows and a chin like the biting end of a steam shovel. Get Out of Our Skies! Varieties of course existed, such as when combined with beetling brows and sunken eyes one recognized the professor or arch-critic of his generation. Ringfield A Novel And a steely glitter shot through the beetling eyebrows; but Hardcastle had given his word before the request was rounded to that pedantic neatness which characterized the crabbed utterances of the round-shouldered dictator. Stingaree He had determined, however, to instantly lower the boats and send them off in search of land, when a gust of wind, blowing away the fog, showed a beetling cliff not a hundred yards away. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 His chin was broad and bold, and his brows beetling and projecting. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Ah! your saints have cruel hearts, Sternly from his bed he starts, And with rude, repulsive shock, Hurls her from the beetling rock.—T. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster A flawless mirror in its grand and reflected framework of cliff and crag and beetling precipice, the Hudson stretches away northward unruffled by the faintest cat's-paw of a breeze. Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier Could it be possible that men who were the slaves of hinds like those in yonder tavern could cling to their little lives while a deliverance like this beetling cliff stood near? A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time The beetling cliff, where the trail turned at right angles, was the acutely dangerous spot. The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America In the lines which marked the corners of his mouth she could see firmness, and his beetling brows and unusually heavy eyelids looked stern and formidable. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Overhead loomed the beetling walls of the palace from which the prince had led his people in revolt—manned now by the Jivros. Valley of the Croen He was a man of sixty or thereabout, long, lank, wiry, with a white patriarchal beard and white beetling brows. Frank of Freedom Hill A number were also noticed in the darkest portions of the cañon of the Grand River, where one would think not a living creature could coax subsistence from the bare rocks and beetling cliffs. Birds of the Rockies Sometimes they are stuck to the rocks like swallows' nests, and sometimes they are placed on beetling cliffs like the home of the eagle above the chasm. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 The old Commoner scowled, and his beetling brows hid for a moment his eyes. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan The fourth was a massive structure of rose granite, beetling above us, a monstrous shape in the dimness, throwing a shadow half across the paved space. Valley of the Croen And then the hostile bands, with their rebel commander, were in turn driven back, and back, and back across the plain, and right under the beetling towers of the fortress of Ravenspur. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls The Reformer, when apprised of the plots of his enemies, exclaimed, “Let them come on; I fear them as the beetling cliff fears the waves that thunder at its feet.” The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan A narrow, wild, and natural path, sometimes creeps under the beetling rock, close by the margin of a mountain stream. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Along the lake shore he went, to the outlet; then down the clear, rushing Squatook; and in the afternoon he came out upon a smaller lake, over which stood sentinel a lofty, beetling mountain. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life But beetling cliffs reared behind the beach and although they ran frantically along at the edge of the green sand, they could find no way to scale the cliffs. A World Called Crimson I even envied the seals I saw cosily asleep in dry, sandy caves, at the foot of the black and beetling rocks. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls He chose the latter and leaped from the beetling crags. Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Then as you sail up to it, a rugged rocky coast, grand in its beetling heights on the south and west, and broken into the sweetest bays everywhere. The Little Manx Nation - 1891 Looking up, I saw that we were slowly approaching the beetling portion of the enormous rock, but had yet a long distance to climb. The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason It suggested to him thunderous cliffs with surf flung up on beetling rock, screaming gulls, and a smuggler on guard with menacing rifle. The Innocents A Story for Lovers As the first rays fall over the cliff’s crest, they show a cove of semicircular shape, backed by a beetling precipice. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea To shake this off, he began clambering over one ridge after another, till, passing cautiously round a beetling rock, a sharp cry from out it shot through him. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 I hear thy sullen tide Break ’neath the beetling cliffs with muffled roar. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman Only to him whose coat of rags Has pressed at night her regal feet, Shall come the secrets, strange and sweet, Of century pines and beetling crags. Woodcraft The hill is a long one, the cliffs of the mountain pass exceedingly picturesque, and the black tarn under the beetling crags suggestive of Poe's 'House of Usher.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy “By day, like primordial man, we crept around beetling crags and scaled inaccessible peaks in pursuit of the wild things——” “Who crept with you?” inquired Miss Dunbar prosaically. The Man from the Bitter Roots There is no majesty of beetling crags, no girdle of turbulent sea, but the dignity of its size, its age, its story, is all-satisfying. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 In every direction huge cliffs towered perpendicularly about you; bottomless abysses yawned at your feet; and every scarped pinnacle and beetling crag scowled menacingly at your littleness and scowled defiance at your approach. Mushrooms on the Moor Hill, in spite of the fact that he professed to believe his father was in San Diego, was scanning every face he passed for the beetling brow, retreating chin, Roman nose, and squint eye. Owen Clancy's Happy Trail or, The Motor Wizard in California Far in this den of infamous resort, there was a low-browed, beetling shop, below a penthouse roof, where iron, old rags, bottles, bones, and greasy offal were bought. A Christmas Carol “But who will run the motor car?” asked the doctor, beetling his shaggy eyebrows. The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp A small, wiry, dapper man with a clean-shaven red face, a cold, light-blue eye and fiercely beetling brows, he occasionally filled my early childhood with terror. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer But he was no more formidable in appearance than his captain, who was equally big, but smooth-shaven, and showing the square jaw and beetling brows of a born fighter. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Hiram's eyes were sharp, and to them the beetling brow, the one "squint eye," the very pronounced Roman nose, and the retreating chin which made the face resemble a bird's beak, were all very plain. Owen Clancy's Happy Trail or, The Motor Wizard in California The shadowy houses have a monumental air; the fine streets which we mostly ascend show a mystery, especially as we flit by the open square, under the great, black Abbey, which seems a beetling rock. Pickwickian Studies The lights gleamed along the opposite front, the long barracks of the soldiery, and the stars were glinting bright above the beetling pine crests beyond the murmuring stream. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War Next morning's dawn would find me on my way to the edge of the beetling cliff. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer “Oho! is that the game?” said Governor Manco; he gave orders, and immediately a gibbet was reared on the verge of the great beetling bastion that overlooked the Plaza. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 “Because that little pond,” answered the surveyor, “when freed from its wintry coat, looks dark and deep even at mid-day under the shadow of that beetling cliff.” Wrecked but not Ruined I stand upon beetling cliffs, and look into chasms that yawn beneath, sleeping in the silence of desolation. The Scalp Hunters Rising immediately above the tiny vessel was the beetling wall of Hope Sanderson, with its summit eight hundred and fifty feet above sea-level. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole Helen’s heart died within her at the mere thought of threading alone a path so densely shaded, and of passing over that beetling rock, beneath the gnarled, fantastic looking tree. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel The old Squire, with bushy brows beetling over his eyes, sat in grief too deep for words, a prey to the darkest forebodings. Plantation Sketches Another minute and they dashed out at the gate, swept round the base of the beetling cliff that frowned above the outpost, and entered the sombre shadow of the forest. Wrecked but not Ruined We knew that below that point beetling cliffs walled in the stream on both sides, so that it would be impossible for them to ascend out of its bed. The Scalp Hunters Is it not that while the body has been quiescent, the excursive Soul has been in spiritual presence on the edge of that beetling and stupendous height? The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 Perhaps she would be frightened at the darkening solitude, and try to find her path homeward, on the edge of that slippery, beetling rock. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel And how shall bark so frail as mine that beetling beach come near, Where rages betwixt cliff and surf the battle-din of fear? The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century As in this day, so in the ancient time the convent of Essalona was perched on a beetling crag on the northern side of the Sarras mountains. A Child's Book of Saints As I have said, the fracture led diagonally up the towering face of the beetling precipice. The Black Wolf Pack The afternoon was well advanced when openings amid the trees showed, beetling overhead, the gray walls of the Citadel. Plotting in Pirate Seas Helen, do you see that beetling rock, half covered with lichens and moss, hanging over the brawling stream? Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel But from under a pair of beetling black brows there flashed a light which took Clo's breath away. The Lion's Mouse Away up on the edge of the beetling white crag at their right, the first "game" they had seen that day was calmly gazing down upon them. The Talking Leaves An Indian Story Behind them were the deep ravines, broad valleys, black beetling cliffs, grand mountains, stupendous glaciers, and dreary desolation of Greenland. The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole Between one and two hundred miles nearer to the pole the little post of Muskrat House lay under a beetling cliff, near the banks of an affluent of the great Saskatchewan river. The Big Otter He stood looking at a head which suggested the head of a lion, full maned and white as a snow-cap, shaggy and beetling of brow, and indomitable of eye. The Tyranny of Weakness The promontories to the open sea are very fine: beetling cliffs of black, red, and green volcanic rocks, and here and there stand up rocky islets, the home of the cormorant and the bittern. Southern Arabia It is a one-eyed city, a city of one-legged men, a city of men with beetling brows and contracted eyes, a city of unrelenting cobble-stones and broken houses. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 Above us was the lofty cliff beetling over our heads, its dark outline well-defined against the brilliant sky. Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman There was the castle, truly, beetling against the breakers, very cold, very arrogant upon its barren promontory. Doom Castle He was standing with folded arms before the picture, his eyes, gleaming from under beetling brows, were devouring it hungrily, line by line. The Four Pools Mystery It was surrounded by some very high and some lower hills, and we were just under a beetling cliff with good water in a stream among bulrushes, reeds, and tropical vegetation. Southern Arabia Drawing nearer, they get under the shadow of its beetling bluffs. The Lone Ranche On all other sides of him was the beetling cliff. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" Her chief personal characteristic was that air of hot-house fragility so often seen in American girls, but in that silence her chin squared, her lips set, the delicate brows contracted in a beetling frown. Flaming June He looked at once plain and distinguished, and in the quizzical eyes and beetling eyebrows there was an unmistakable likeness to the grande dame standing by Claire’s side. The Independence of Claire One morning, as we were riding up a narrow gorge beneath the shade of a beetling cliff, our guides suddenly set up a sing-song chant, which they continued for fully ten minutes. Southern Arabia And he leapt actively to the beetling summit. Boycotted And Other Stories “What, isn’t that the top?” said poor Fisher, craning his head up towards the beetling crag above them. The Cock-House at Fellsgarth As he advanced, he cast sidelong, suspicious, and sinister glances from beneath bushy, beetling eyebrows. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy In spite of her weariness she was troubled and restless, and turning looked first at the beetling crags back of them, then away over the plain at the twinkling lights of the town below. The Master-Knot of Human Fate The shadow of a pair of beetling brows rolled darkly over me. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author What brought him, walking on this particular evening, to the foot of the beetling cliffs? Boycotted And Other Stories The skull-cap indicates a low, flat forehead, beetling brows, and a capacity about two-thirds of the modern size. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told It had purpled with the sunset before he could distinguish the crimson and gold of its foliage and its beetling crags. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories To eastward the peak broke away sheer, beetling in a perpetual menace to the valleys and the lower hills. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories It seemed to frown repulsively with its beetling eaves, as I lifted the knocker and let it fall with startling force. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Somewhere in that beetling hill awaited wealth, and if determination counted for anything, if force of will and force of muscle were worth only a part of their accepted value, Fairchild meant to find it. The Cross-Cut But he had great beetling, ape-like eyebrow ridges and massive jaws, and he showed "simian characters swarming in the details of his structure." The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told High above it, from the steep slope on either hand, beetling crags jut out. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories Strange Indian villages lined the beetling heights of the straits. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward "Not a lady-like request," he answered, with a shrewd cast of the eye under his beetling brows. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Beyond is Strancally Castle, beetling over the river, set firmly in a foundation of crags. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway The remains consisted of the walls of the skull, which indicate a large brain, and a high forehead without the beetling eyebrows of the Neanderthal man and Pithecanthropus. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told The place, walled in by beetling precipice, was beginning to darken into cloister-dim shadows. A Pagan of the Hills Birds, birds in myriads upon myriads, screamed and circled over the eerie heights of the beetling cliffs. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward The beetling brows, heavy hooked beak, and spread talons combine to give a fierce and spirited mien to the great bird. Animal Figures in the Maya Codices The whole month of December had been wasted in a fruitless siege, and Montgomery determined that, for a variety of imperious reasons, he must attempt to carry the beetling fortress by storm. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 On all sides the cliffs, sheer falls half a thousand, sometimes quite a thousand feet high, seemed actually to stoop their august, beetling brows forward that they might frown down upon their own unbroken reflections. Wolf Breed The conformation of the rocks, beetling above it, had led her to imagine that a straight wall of cliff rose abruptly just at the back of the ledge. The Short Cut The canal here narrowed to a dark canyon overhung by beetling cliffs. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward Mark, where the beetling precipice appears, The toil of the old fisher, gray with years; Mark, as to drag the laden net he strains, The labouring muscle and the swelling veins! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan At this point the beetling line of rocks which coiled and frowned along the coast terminated abruptly in precipitous crags. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Again and again he thought that he had found the way down only to be driven back and up when he had made a few perilous feet downward along the beetling fall of rock. Wolf Breed To go forward was like climbing a precipice with beetling crags and perpendicular walls of ice. The House of Martha The coast became beetling precipice, that rolled inland forest-clad to mountains jagging ragged peaks through the clouds. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward Not the prow that labours, helpless as a storm-blown leaf, Where the rocks and waters, darkling depth and beetling height, Rage with wave on shattering wave and thundering reef on reef. Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI No beetling precipice, of which she ever heard, had fallen and crushed so much as the sheep feeding in the valleys. Gypsy Breynton A pair of hawk's eyes gleamed from under bushy beetling brows; wide loose lips and a truculent, pugnacious lower jaw completed the picture of a ruffian. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Th’ increasing blast roared round the beetling rocks, The clouds, swift-wing’d, flew o’er the starry sky, The groaning trees untimely shed their locks, And shooting meteors caught the startled eye. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham On both sides the shores now rose in beetling precipice and steep mountains, down which foamed cataracts setting the echo of myriad bells tinkling through the wilds. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward Onward it came, smooth-sliding on the ground, And, beetling, o'er the midmost city frowned. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor Nor is the beauty of the spot confined to the luxuriant verdure, or the stupendous walls and beetling crags. Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends Some of the lunar mountains lie in long, massive chains, with towering peaks, profound gorges, narrow valleys, vast amphitheaters, and beetling precipices. Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries There a series of gigantic steps, formed by high and beetling rocks, closes the Rito to the west. The Delight Makers There, the beetling walls are guarded by long reefs like the teeth of a saw. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark Alicia Linden, for all her tragic accents, her deep-set eyes, with their beetling brows, and her generally almost repulsive exterior, had more real heart than any of the women present. Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland His old granite face with the tight mouth and beetling eyebrows was enough. The Story of Bawn Scenery, in order to be truly mountainous, must present to the spectator's eye towering peaks, bristling crags and beetling cliffs, overhanging deep ravines and foaming torrents. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2 They hugged the rocks so closely that most of the time their figures disappeared in the inky shadows of projecting or beetling cliffs and pillars. The Delight Makers As soon as I looked up I saw it, too, dark and beetling, like the overhang of a low cliff. Romance When the minister perched up in his beetling pulpit with the sounding-board over his head, was about half through his discourse, Ann Wales happened to glance out of the window at her side. The Adventures of Ann Stories of Colonial Times Just here had been formed a little sandy cove partly protected by the beetling cliff. The Stolen Singer "Bah!" casting at him a scornful glance from under his beetling brows, "your eyes see so far, José, that you see all manner of things which do not exist." The Black Pearl One does not have to scale its beetling parapets or assault its scarps and frowning bastions; neither is one obliged to force with clamor and blaring trumpets and glittering gorgets the drawbridge and portcullis. Hearts and Masks The light brought into clearer outline the brown peaks and beetling crags that rose bleak and bare above the wealth of color, beyond the dark, evergreen stretches of pines and mountain cedars. Westerfelt To the right, suspended almost in the air--over a beetling, perpendicular, rocky cliff--feathered half way up with nut and beech--stands, or rather nods, an old castle in ruins. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two We have seen him standing before us like unto a dark fountain breaking from some beetling cliff. The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy He was a saturnine, gnarled old Spaniard with lean jaws and beetling brows. The Black Pearl Such were the remarks of those ashore as the Princess May steamed down the harbor and out through the narrow channel between the beetling cliffs, into the broad Atlantic. The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell Their resting-place was in the shadow of a beetling, weather-beaten rock that still bore traces of hieroglyphic carvings. The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert Thou art perched aloft on the beetling crag, And the waves are white below, And on, with a haste that can not lag, They rush in an endless flow. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader I stared at the future, and saw a big decision beetling before me. Montlivet They stood for a while leaning upon the desolate bridge, turning reluctantly from the great beetling rocks of the ravine above to gaze with strange qualms into the yawning precipice beneath. A Comedy of Masks A Novel The entrance is a narrow passage between high, beetling cliffs rising on either side. The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell "We knew every rock and stone, and every nook and cranny of the beetling cliffs." Carette of Sark His worshippers engraved his image with grateful hands on the beetling cliffs of Cappadocian chasms in Asia Minor, where his sway was steadfast and pre-eminent for long centuries. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Nor is the name altogether misplaced or undeserved, the mountain being exceeding precipitous, and its beetling, rocky sides seeming well-nigh inaccessible. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine Oh! ye crags and peaks!" burst forth Ardan; "how I should like to catch even a faint echo of the chorus you could chant, if a wild storm roared over your beetling summits! All Around the Moon One of these was a stout, broad-shouldered person, a good deal knock-kneed, remarkably sallow in the complexion, with brows black and beetling. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two On reaching the bottom of the Grassy Quarry, as it was called, she peered under the little beetling cliff that overhung the well-known ledge on which Lamh Laudher sat. The Dead Boxer The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two Beside some stream we might espy black washerwomen beetling their washing. The Flower of the Chapdelaines He hastened to the margin of the beetling crag, and peering over it, saw Ohquamehud hanging by Holden's arm, and struggling to pull him down. The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times "Brecqhou," said the ancient mariner, as they swung past a long green island with beetling cliffs, and yawning caverns, and comet-like rushes of white foam among the chaos of rocks below. Pearl of Pearl Island The 'Acts of Paul and Thekla' describe him as short and bald, with a hook-nose and beetling brows; there is nothing improbable in this description. Outspoken Essays The wild cheers broke like a thunder storm On the beetling bluffs and the hills profound, An echoing, jubilant sea of sound. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems The mountains seem greater far by night than day—higher heights and deeper depths, more snowy pyramids, more beetling crags, softer meadows, and darker pines. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series This, freezing as it fell, encrusted the rough sides of the beetling crags with icy layers, covering them all over with plates like silver, and hanging them with stalactites. The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times And his father, King Priam, wailed and mourned; and with him all the men and women in the city, as if the beetling towers of Ilium were already smouldering in fire. The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) But no château of the Alps, no beetling crag-lodged castle of the Rhine, can match the fish-hawk's nest for sheer boldness and daring. Roof and Meadow He was like a beetling mountain, always hanging over my head. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill Bob heard the visitor's story, and knitted his beetling bushy brows. A Dream of the North Sea And at night in his bed, as Roger stared up at the beetling cliff of apartment windows just outside, drearily he asked himself how it would feel to live like that. His Family Great is the speed of my little wherry, As afar from Derry its path it ploughs; Heavy my heart out of Erin steering And nearing Alba of the beetling brows. A Celtic Psaltery Hairbreadth escapes and wicked intrigues in castles built over beetling precipices were sufficiently outside the reader's own experience to produce a thrill. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance He was looking across to the wild headland of Hoy, where the red beetling cliffs reflected the sunlight. The Pilots of Pomona As the mountains closed in upon him in a narrow passage between beetling cliffs thousands of feet high, Dermot's interest quickened. The Elephant God Turning restlessly on his bed, he would glance out of the window up at the beetling wall close by, tier on tier of apartments from which faint voices dropped out of the dark. His Family To the right, the valley split to form a niche for a beetling, ruined castle. Through stained glass The old soldier looked at him from under beetling brows. Charles Rex All at once the mists seemed to lift from the long range of hills on the right and revealed the dark background of forest, broken here and there with jutting rocks and beetling crags. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Corona smiled brightly as she looked far up at the beetling crags behind which Saracinesca was hidden. Saracinesca Floating flat like ice floes beneath the greenish moon, or beetling up in prodigious ledges of seeming solidness on a sunny morning—are they not the most superbly heart-easing miracles of our visible world? Shandygaff Looking up at the jagged, beetling world above them their task appeared hopeless enough. Romance Island They were penned within the grotto by a great fragment of the beetling cliff. The Frontiersmen Flanking the precipice beneath beetling rocks, stand the guardian deities of Mondo; and on altars before them, are placed the propitiatory offerings of the traveler. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I To our left, at the distance of eight miles, this hill country of harmonious and graceful undulation ends in beetling cliffs, beneath which the sea, now full in view, lies sparkling in the morning sunshine. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 As he spoke the major shot a keen glance from under his beetling old brows at the pair and wisely let the situation develop itself. Andrew the Glad Upon the beetling throne Olivia took her place, and her women sank about her like tiers of sunset clouds. Romance Island The Laird bent his beetling brows upon Nan. Kindred of the Dust But under the brow of a beetling crag, the spray came and went unequally. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I I knew that—" and she frowned, beetling her delicate dark brows, "but why such a lot? Halcyone Well," answered the major, beetling his brows over his keen eyes, "I suppose there is no doubt that Taylor is machine-made. Andrew the Glad King Otho leaned back in the beetling throne. Romance Island All across and before the three rude and beetling archways hung a felled oak overhead, black and thick and threatening. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Nid-nods its tufted summit like three ostrich plumes; its beetling crags, bent poppies, shadows, willowy shores, all nod; its streams are murmuring down the hills; its wavelets hush the shore. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I I knew every rock and patch of green, and the very outline of the edge of the beetling crags that had been so plain to me in the dream light ere Owen called me. A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex Started at last and marched up the valley, which narrowed considerably here, under the shadow of beetling cliffs, for about eight miles, with incessant momentary halts, as always happens in the rear of a column. In the Ranks of the C.I.V. Round the entire island roars the frenzied sea, while the beetling crags along its winding shores resound as the billows beat against them. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries Near the Prussian frontier was "a castle that stood beetling on a crag above the road," where smoke actually arose from a beacon-grate that thrust itself out "from a far-front tower." James Fenimore Cooper His massive head, beetling brow, flashing eye, and stately carriage attracted instant attention wherever he went. The Reign of Andrew Jackson Rock and ravine, beetling crag, singing cascade, and the heights where the lightning plays and the mists hover are certainly good timber for poetry—after you have caught your poet—but Nature eludes all formula. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great I should say that it was just about the bigness of an ordinary house, and very black and beetling, with not a spear of grass or anything on it. Us and the Bottleman To him came one of the hostlers with insolent beetling brow. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People I remember trying to climb up to the ledge which hung beetling fifteen feet above. Spanish Doubloons "I want you at least to try to live up to your position," he said with cold directness, beetling his brows at her. The Purple Heights She was once washing clothes by the process known universally in Munster as beetling. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 No answer, but his assurance coming back, as he stood looking at her under beetling eyebrows, over black arms folded across a snowy shirt. The Shadow of the Rope Summer and winter it dominates the valley with its beetling crags and snowy sides. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Our path, if it could be called such, lay over a toilsome jumble of huge, sharp-edged rocks, overhung by a beetling cliff of reddish-yellow sandstone, much of which seemed on the point of falling. Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 Over penetrating eyes hung a beetling brow, and his aggressive, resonant voice commanded even in slight utterances. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe When she reached the wood she crept to its beetling verge, and looking across the cañon watched Lance's figure as it vanished and reappeared in the shadows and sinuosities of the ascent. Frontier Stories More than once, in face of some beetling precipice, or on the brink of some gaping chasm, it seemed as if the journey had come to an end. Overland The whole mountain range seemed an immense red barrier of beetling rock. Tales of lonely trails His eyebrows were large and beetling, overhanging deep-set eyes, and he wore a pair of spectacles which gave him a somewhat owlish expression. The Mystery of 31 New Inn At others it ran along the brink of beetling precipices. Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy The beetling walls of the fortress were as tho they were not. The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index Beyond, a wild and rocky valley ran inland, and the time-worn ruins of —— Castle, beetling over the heights, terminated the view in this direction. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 375, June 13, 1829 Hills prolific, valley deeps, Where the muse of silence sleeps; Frowning cliff, and beetling rock, Shivered by the deluge shock, When the world was drowned—and now Tottering before Ruin's plough. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832 The tall grave man near by turned upon her his beetling brows, his piercing dark eyes. The Purchase Price I'm sure my brows are beetling much less than usual. Madcap Towers rise from towers, mullioned windows have their lines cut in the shadow of beetling machicolations, and higher still are dormer windows with graceful Gothic gables. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine For the latter building some commanding position was apt to be selected, and hence we so often find the old village streets of New England running along elevated ridges or climbing over beetling hilltops. Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins A single deep-set gray eye was shadowed by a beetling brow, over which a crop of coarse black hair, slightly streaked with gray, fell almost low enough to mingle with his black, bushy eyebrows. The Marrow of Tradition And then the earth smiles again, the beetling cliffs recede into distances, and we glide through a pleasant valley. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers In fact, this morning in spite of severe provocation they don't seem to be beetling at all. Madcap The girl glared back at him, her splendid brows beetling like an Amazon's. The Custom of the Country Beyond, to the east, black rocky promontories came in sight, one after the other, beetling over the sea. Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America From beneath beetling brows the creature saw the boma constructed, the fires built, and the supper prepared. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar His beetling brow almost obscured his eyes; his lip was curled contemptuously; his very shoulders seemed to sneer in stealthy whisperings with his great flapped ears. Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty Your beetling brows, your air of indifference, your intolerance of the world, they're the defensive armor for your shrinking susceptibilities—you a painter of beautiful women! Madcap His beetling brows were drawn in a frown of perplexity for a full quarter of an hour, while he rested motionless in his chair, an unlighted cigar between his lips. Within the Law Dim memories he had of beetling cliffs, of a group of huts with wondering faces at the doors, of foaming, clattering water, and of a bristle of mountain beeches. The White Company He eyed the pair from beneath his beetling brows. Son of Tarzan No more Can we observe what's lost at any time, When things wax old with eld and foul decay, Or when salt seas eat under beetling crags. On the Nature of Things Before we bivouac I will scale yon beetling mount if peradventure I may perceive one that will point us homeward. The Brother of Daphne Down midst the dead He fell, as fails a beetling mountain-cliff. The Fall of Troy It had apparently unscalable slopes of weathered rock leading up to beetling walls. Desert Gold And he drew down his beetling eyebrows and looked at the little boy so fixedly and so long that Fauntleroy wondered what he could be thinking of. Little Lord Fauntleroy He was about six feet tall, very leanly built, with a weather-beaten face of mahogany on which was superimposed a sweeping mustache and beetling eye-brows. The Mountains "The beetling beetle-crushing baulks of boots Crashed on their thunderous way, while men-at-arms, Who knew no fear, shuddered and crossed themselves, And little children whimpered with a fright Too fierce for tears." The Brother of Daphne The big eyes under Lazarus' beetling brows filled with tears. The Lost Prince Facing that way, Gale saw dark, beetling ridges rising from the oasis and leading up to bare, black mountains. Desert Gold The fact was that the Earl had stalked into the room and stood, looking like a venerable aristocratic giant, staring at the woman from under his beetling brows, and not condescending a word. Little Lord Fauntleroy The roaring ocean and the beetling crags owe something of their sublimity to this—that if they be tempted, they can take the warm life of a man. Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East Magnus paused again, his frown beetling, and in the silence the excited murmur from the main room of the club, the soprano chatter of a multitude of women, found its way to the deserted library. The Octopus : A story of California At night-time they chose the base of a beetling crag, where the rocks offered some protection from the chill wind, and there huddled together for warmth, they enjoyed a few hours' sleep. A Study in Scarlet Behind the youth and maiden was a tempting alcove and seat, formed naturally in the beetling mass, and wide enough to admit two or three persons. A Pair of Blue Eyes His deep-set fierce old eyes gleamed under his beetling brows. Little Lord Fauntleroy Mr. Royall stood in the middle of the office, his thick eyebrows beetling, his lower jaw trembling a little. Summer And her beetling brows, and broad, flat nose, and her mouth! Jungle Tales of Tarzan With a merry breeze behind them they were racing under the beetling front of Blomidon. The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage "How long has this thing been going on?" he said, looking at her from under beetling brows that had grown bushy with the years. Star-Dust The mountain of Curu is volcanic, a chaos of rent rocks, beetling precipices, and masses of lava that have been disgorged from the burning crater. Life in Mexico It would not do, however, to approach too near to these beetling cliffs, the solidity of which was very doubtful. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude She also let her eyes rest in admiration upon Taug's beetling brows and his short, powerful neck. Jungle Tales of Tarzan How I remember every white-walled cottage, and the beetling cliffs, and that bold headland beside which the valley opens, with its dark-green woods, and then Spike Island. Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 At last we halted under a beetling rampart of rock which projected from the earth high upon the mountain. Roughing It, Part 3. Sternly from his bed he starts, And with rude, repulsive shock, Hurls her from the beetling rock. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Here were the same irregular, beetling cliffs, the same isolated crags, with sharply outlined lower and minor levels of building. Together He saw their beetling brows, their great fangs, their wicked eyes. Jungle Tales of Tarzan Occasionally the foreigner may find memories of former travel suddenly stirred to life by some view on a mountain road, or some stretch of beetling coast seen through a fog of spray. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Wild were the shouts, and they rolled and broke On the beetling bluffs and the hills profound, An echoing, jubilant sea of sound. Legends of the Northwest Character is formed like those chalk cliffs in the south, built up eight hundred feet, beetling above the stormy sea; and all made up of the relics of microscopic animals. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Then, as now, the Housatonic crept still and darkling around the beetling base of Fisher's Nest, and in the meadows laughed above its pebbly shoals, embracing the verdant fields with many a loving curve. The Duke of Stockbridge From beneath shaggy, beetling brows they glared maliciously upon him, maliciously and with a keen curiosity; then Tarzan entered the cabin and closed the door after him. Jungle Tales of Tarzan That beetling cliff was the ally on which Montcalm most depended. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 For as against a snarling sea one steers, Ever he battled with the beetling years; And ever Jessamine must watch and pine, Her vision bounded by the bleak sea-line. Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems Up, always up those beetling slopes, by narrow paths, on jagged stones, which cut the shoes first, the feet next! The Companions of Jehu Still, to commit one's self in such a vehicle, through a howling tempest of wind and rain, with a beetling precipice above and a raging abyss below, required that courage which despair alone can inspire. The Antiquary — Volume 01 Then, under the beetling crags, the bushrangers turned like hunted wolves, and stood at bay. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction The path led through its centre, always ascending on an inclined plane, and disappeared through a narrow gorge around the brow of a beetling cliff. The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons The clouds are below us, and noiselessly break in foaming billows against the faces of the beetling cliffs. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young Adj. pendent, pendulous; pensile; hanging &c. v.; beetling, jutting over, overhanging, projecting; dependent; suspended &c. v.; loose, flowing. having a peduncle &c. n.; pedunculate†, tailed, caudate. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases We have often been on lakes, beneath beetling cliffs of from three to six thousand feet in height; whereas, here, the greatest elevation is materially less than two. Home as Found So stood he betwixt his brawny captors what time he panted hoarse and loud, and stared about him fierce-eyed 'neath beetling brows. Beltane the Smith In a few minutes he turned the brow of a beetling rock, and was lost to view. The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons It is a maze of yawning chasms and gullies, in the angles of which rise beetling crags and piles of detached boulders that seem to have been gotten ready to be launched below. The Mountains of California And there high mountains stood, with snow-crowned crags beetling over the waves; and a great river, all foaming with the summer floods, went rolling through the valley. The Story of Siegfried I don’t know what the word beetling means, but if it means anything bad, I will certainly apply it to that pali. The Hawaiian Archipelago She was certainly using strong language, but the time was passing rapidly and in the distance she could distinguish already the grey towers of Sigmundskron crowning the beetling crag. Greifenstein Emerging from the shadow of the manchineel-trees, you may follow the road up, up, up, under beetling cliffs of plutonian rock that seem about to topple down upon the path-way. Two Years in the French West Indies Opposite was a cluster of three old houses leaning together as if the outer ones were trying to support the beetling mansard roof of the center house. Three Soldiers Such was the cry, as if the beetling height Of Ilium all were smould'ring in the fire. The Iliad Overlooking the camp, five hundred feet above the glacier, were beetling, crevassed crags, but I could trace out a good road, free from pitfalls, leading to the plateau, at an elevation of three thousand feet. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 The interesting parts of the structure consisted in the beetling brow of the cliff and the roof of the cavity underneath. Over Prairie Trails The sonorous voice of the speaker rang through the forest, and came back in an echo from a beetling cliff behind him. The Desired Woman Then he sat down in his chair, and settled back until his head rested on the back, and bent his great beetling brows, and gazed at his visitor. The Moneychangers On the 21st he made camp amidst the high and beetling cliffs, known a few years afterward as Scott's Bluffs. The Great Salt Lake Trail It is translated; it becomes a mere wraith hovering above the beetling crag. Time and Change Cunningham bowed in recognition of his courtesy, and walked away to a point whence he could look from the beetling parapet away and away across desert that shone hot and hazy-rimmed on every side. Rung Ho! There was a sparse white frost about his ears; and his eyes, pale blue and prominent, looked out from under beetling brows. The Prodigal Judge The hills were of great height, with bare crags often beetling up among the trees hundreds of feet, with deep valleys and rugged precipices. The Young Carthaginian A Story of The Times of Hannibal He saw lofty crags and cathedral spires, and a wonderful canyon winding between huge beetling red walk. The Rainbow Trail The current quickened beneath them, the river- banks closed in, and finally beetling cliffs arose, between which was a cleft that swallowed the stream. The Winds of Chance A bigger town than Benton had arisen, and more was going up—tents and clapboard houses, sheds and cabins—the same motley jumble set under beetling red Utah bluffs. The U. P. Trail His way then lay by darkling canons, rushing streams and stupendous beetling cliffs fringed with pines. The Life of Sir Richard Burton Here, Zeke pointed aloft to a beetling crag far distant, where a bullock, with horns thrown back, stood like a statue. Omoo Then under the beetling crags, where the fern-trees began to feather up among the fallen boulders, the bushrangers turned like hunted wolves, and stood at bay. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn Those beetling brows screened some massive purpose; that high, broad forehead held some finished train of reasoning, which the broad chin and massive jaw would help to carry into effect. The Jewel of Seven Stars She had a hard, condemnatory voice, and she spoke as though she were addressing an assembly; but, worst of all, she had black, beetling eyebrows, and these frightened Jeremy into fits. Jeremy We will conquer those beetling crags, or die trying. Tish The last of the four who habitually sat with us was Giojoso, the seneschal, a lantern-jawed fellow with black, beetling brows, about whom the only joyous thing was his misnomer of a name. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza "Why, what story was that?" quoth he in some surprise, his beetling brows coming together in one broad line of fur. The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro A sloping path beneath the beetling cliff and the castle walls rising sheer from its summit, led down to the lower level whence the voice proceeded. The Well-Beloved At the point where it joined the waist-deck he paused, and his dark old eyes smouldered under his beetling brows. The Sea-Hawk To make of these beetling crags a joke! Tish As I anticipated, we had passed right through the precipice, and were now on the farther side, and immediately beneath its beetling face. She I managed to climb up the cliff at a spot less beetling than the rest, and continued my journey. The Lady of the Shroud Dry, streaming locks of iron-grey, an ashen countenance, deep-set, hollow eyes, a beetling, parchment-covered brow; lean shanks half hidden with a rotting rag, claw-like hands which clutched miserably at the air. Red Eve Asad watched him silently awhile from under his beetling brows, then summoned him. The Sea-Hawk And yet they waited in groups, and looked up towards the beetling crags above them. The Great Boer War Most like it seemed as though all beetling Ilios were burning utterly in fire. The Iliad The recollection then came to me of the proximity of the church to the top of the beetling cliff, and of the half-sunk cavern entrances which pierced it. The Lady of the Shroud His features were harsh and prominent; and he had black beetling brows, a large coarse mouth, and dark eyes, lighted up with a very sinister and malignant expression. Windsor Castle There could be no doubt about the beetling forehead, the sunken animal eyes. The Hound of the Baskervilles When she reached the wood she crept to its beetling verge, and, looking across the canyon, watched Lance's figure as it vanished and reappeared in the shadows and sinuosities of the ascent. Flip, a California romance He frowned now to hear Hortensia's angry mention of her ladyship's name; and if his blue eyes moved uneasily under his beetling brows, it was because the situation irked him. The Lion's Skin Jeffreys stirred in his scarlet robes, and his wistful eyes grew terrible as they bent from under beetling brows upon the witness. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Its hill had none of the beetling romance of Devonshire, none of the subtle contours that prelude a cottage in Kent, but profferred its burden crudely, on a huge bare palm. The Longest Journey Whose eye was this beneath that beetling frown? Complete Poetical Works Still higher, apparently on the very brow of the beetling crag that frowned above, stood the old Gothic hall, crumbling and lofty, a fit eyrie for the eagles of Morville. The Heir of Redclyffe Every anchorage among the beetling islands or under the frowning cliffs of the mainland had meant a battle or a storm. Lost Face And this was his kingdom,—a flower-throttled gorge, with beetling cliffs and crags, from which floated the blattings of wild goats. The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii And where the opportunity is given of looking both up to towering walls, and down over beetling precipices, the effect is enhanced. The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it Men and women and little children climb up his rugged sides, and the crown upon his beetling brows is set in the circle of humanity. Gala-days His heavy, sonorous tones rang out over the court-room, while from time to time the piercing eyes beneath the beetling, snow-white brows sought the face of Ralph Mainwaring with their silent but unmistakable challenge. That Mainwaring Affair No unguided footstep ever came upon that vale; for it lay away up among a range of giant hills that hung beetling around about it, shutting out the sunlight from its sweetest recesses. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 He was about the middle height, portly, and had a couple of fierce grey eyes, that flashed fire from beneath a pair of great bushy beetling eyebrows and overawed all who came near him. The Way of All Flesh It was only a tributary of the great canyon, she supposed, but it was different, strange, impressive, yet intimate, because all about it was overpowering, near at hand, even the beetling crags. Wildfire So riveted was my gaze that I could hardly turn it across the river, where Emmett proudly pointed out his lonely home—an oasis set down amidst beetling red cliffs. The Last of the Plainsmen Small eyes, red and fiery, were set deep under a beetling forehead. The Path of the King This man was scarcely many years older than Glenn, yet he had grizzled hair, a seamed and scarred visage, coarse, thick lips, and beetling brows, from under which peered gleaming light eyes. The Call of the Canyon It came to an abrupt halt while seven miles distant, the checked stream standing in a threatening and rugged ridge, with rigid, beetling front. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Here was a half-acre of sand, with a few scant willows, set down seemingly in a dent at the base of the giant, beetling cliffs. Wildfire She would know him at once; he would have the dark beetling brows, the quick, furtive glance, the sneering, unsavoury smile that always characterised the Sir Jaspers of this world. The Toys of Peace, and other papers It was a beetling crag, round which winded a very narrow and broken footpath, commanded in various places by the position which they held. A Legend of Montrose They had now ascended to a great height above the level of the plains, yet they beheld huge crags of granite piled one upon another, and beetling like battlements far above them. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West He was small and dark, a little man with deep-set eyes and beetling brows. When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot A grave and sombre man, whose beetling brow O'erhangs the rushing current of his speech As rocks o'er rivers hang. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Th' increasing blast roar'd round the beetling rocks, The clouds swift-wing'd flew o'er the starry sky, The groaning trees untimely shed their locks, And shooting meteors caught the startled eye. Poems and Songs of Robert Burns The low beetling brows, and the criminal jaw, the bestiality of the whole countenance were new to the young man, though he was a type that Scotland Yard would have recognized at a glance. Secret Adversary On the 21st, they encamped amidst high and beetling cliffs of indurated clay and sandstone, bearing the semblance of towers, castles, churches, and fortified cities. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West Little was visible except beetling crags and the bare shingly sides of the mountains, relieved by scarcely a trace of vegetation. The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life We passed between precipices more than a thousand feet high, sharp and splintering at the tops, their sides beetling over the defile or descending in abrupt declivities, bristling with black fir trees. The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life |
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