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TOWERED
Traducere în limba română
towered adjectiv
1. prevăzut cu turnuri; apărat de turnuri; flancat de turnuri.
2. (în cuvinte compuse) cu turnuri;
high towered cu turnuri înalte.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
But it was augmented and rendered sublime by the mighty Alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all, as belonging to another earth, the habitations of another race of beings.
(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
They were brutes, but he was the arch-brute, a thing of terror that towered over them and dominated them.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
Hordle John was stripped from his waist upwards, and his huge body, with his great muscles swelling out like the gnarled roots of an oak, towered high above the soldier.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It towered high, the old house, with many little windows in which the moon glinted, and with a strip of water running round three sides of it.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Behind us were grouped the two swarthy half-breeds and the little knot of Indians, while in front and above us towered those huge, ruddy ribs of rocks which kept us from our goal.
(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Slowly the whole eastern sky filled with clouds that over-towered us like some black sierra of the infernal regions.
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
It was now a variegated wall, composed of the trees that fringed the stream, the opposing mountain that towered above the trees, and the sky that out-towered the mountain.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
"Don't let that young giant come near me, he worries me worse than mosquitoes," whispered the old lady to Amy, as the rooms filled and Laurie's black head towered above the rest.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
Yet there was much around to interest us, for we were passing through as singular a countryside as any in England, where a few scattered cottages represented the population of to-day, while on every hand enormous square-towered churches bristled up from the flat green landscape and told of the glory and prosperity of old East Anglia.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Right and left of us they towered, with the afternoon sun falling full upon them and bringing out all the glorious colours of this beautiful range, deep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where grass and rock mingled, and an endless perspective of jagged rock and pointed crags, till these were themselves lost in the distance, where the snowy peaks rose grandly.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
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