tow'ring

But o'er him for a settled stoop my hawk is tow'ring high.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

My falcon 's tow'ring o'er him with an eye of fire and pride,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

This _soft_ as _Air_, and _tow'ring_ that as _Fire_.

Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley

_Hermaphrodite_; which though inserted into Mr. _Randolphs_ Poems (one of as high a tow'ring Wit as most in that age;) yet is well known to be

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

Firs, pines, and pitch trees, and the tow'ring pride

The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

When a whistle or a whoop brings her tow'ring o'er my head;

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

Struck with his haughty mien, and tow'ring height.

The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

I only know that as we scrambled up on solid ground, plastered and breathless, I looked at the wintry sun, the waste, and the tall hill tow'ring to the right of us, and thought it a strange place to die in.

The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

“A falcon tow'ring in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.”

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

Out of the town we went, and climbed up a grassy eminence; with some difficulty got upon the "topmost tow'ring height" of an old earthwork -- blamed on the Danes of course; everything unknown is laid on them.

The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall 1862