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The menace I here dismiss with a sentence or two was the most serious that had loomed upon my horizon.
Then the ship looms before us, but there is still the risky task of getting alongside and aboard.
It was deserted, the looms and pottery wheels covered with cloth and reeds to keep off the rain.
Frantically he swung the wheel, so he would not crash into the wall that loomed up in front of him.
Even the clouds loomed silently, as if in suspense, over the terrific shock of the two lines of approaching cavalry.
The chief requirement in a good pick is that as little force as possible shall be wasted in the loom.
The construction is similar for almost all looms, but there are different gears and sizes of wheels used.
Vast, malignant, desolate and monstrous, loomed in the eyes of the wretched fugitive, the awful road to Liberty or Death.
The woman loomed big to Adam, and he believed she had been dragged down by a weak and vicious man.
Not until it loomed over him, and a giant claw reached down for him, did he become aware of it.
The steps drew near, and against the red sunset the figure of Hugh Morgan loomed clear and large.
The latter, dyed with vegetable and mineral substances, the women weave on their own looms for family use.
At eighteen years "a loom, two handsome eyes that know no tears, a cotton dress, a love, belong to me."
Seen thus close at hand, it looms rather large; but it really matters very little to the great world.
The peoples threatened by them were dimly conscious of the danger which as yet only loomed in the distance.
This description of thrown silk is used in the shuttle or transverse threads of a piece of silk on the loom.
The swift drive of the double-pointed shuttle, the hard push of the loom back and forth goes through you.
Before them there loomed an enormous granite pile, set far back from the street, and occupying a whole block.
These they wove with marvelous skill, and upon looms in every respect identical with those used in tapestry work.
Randall saw the dim figure loom up by his side, and demanded who he was and what he wanted.
They had reached one of the many city churches; the big building loomed up before them dark and tall.
They ate the meal quietly, and then Martin took up a book to read aloud while Nancy went to her loom.
As we drove on, and still saw no looming bulk, frozen fear pinched my heart, like horrid, ice-cold fingers.
Finally, power reversed, they approached it, saw the planet looming large, and passed within the detector screen.
One of the two strangers took the stable key and went off to the building looming in the background.
He had produced an official notebook and looked very important as he loomed in the doorway, gazing sternly at the detective.
As I was speaking, the whole system seemed to rise up before me, like a vague destiny looming from the abyss.
I passed my fingers lightly over that silk for love's loom, while my eyes feasted on its delicate color.
High above her loomed the great hotel, and after midnight though it was, all here was life and bustle.
A shadow crossed his face, but, as his figure loomed darkly against the moon, Edith did not see it.
As the traveler approaches the northern and eastern frontiers, chains of hills, and even snowy peaks, loom before him.
Under the circumstances it was not remarkable that Harris's work began to loom larger than ever in his life.
Strange, grotesque shapes loomed out in the uncertain, flickering light; but was it not a strange and haunted chamber?
The red glow was suddenly very bright and a silvery metallic shape loomed up before him in the whiteness.
For over all the adventures and over my whole childhood loomed this last thing I had seen, hideous, disgusting.
The earth loomed up below, although as, yet it took on only a vague, misty effect, due to the weak moonlight.
The girl, having lost her spindle, took up the shuttle and, seating herself at her loom, began to weave.
And as she marveled at the miracle of a rescue, a dark figure loomed up at the rim of the ravine.
It may be remarked that difficulties which loom largely in peace are often overcome easily enough under the stress of war.
Availing myself of what I then saw, I made a loom in its general principles nearly as they are now made.
Stockings, in many parts of Scotland, are knit much cheaper than they can anywhere be wrought upon the loom.
Shouted Father's voice, and Prince's rearing, kicking form loomed large before her as he backed persistently towards the bank.
Farmer waxed so much drunker than usual that he mistook the long window of the loom for the door.
Common domestic fabrics are taken from the loom, and, without further preparation, are folded up into pieces for sale.
The girl, having lost her spindle, took up the shuttle and, seating herself at her loom, began to weave.
After what seemed twenty minutes, we again changed direction, this time straight toward the trees looming close to us.
A few personal incidents loom a little clearer, deriving what clarity they have from the warmth of personal contact.
He looked up to see a figure loom briefly against the stars, and then a man dropped lightly into the room.
Soon the tree, standing alone on the prairie, and upon the bank of a small stream, loomed up in the distance.
After what seemed twenty minutes, we again changed direction, this time straight toward the trees looming close to us.
She put away her hand loom and covered her face with her hands, leaning her head on her breast.
The water and steam are well established, and work lower than the cheapest hand looms of Europe or Asia.
Vaguely through the opening door loomed the white figure of a woman with her elbow crooked across her eyes.
It is at this period of her existence that she begins to loom largely in the social history of her time.
With the party went horses, cattle, sheep, swine, agricultural implements, grain and seeds for planting, looms, etc.
After looking a few moments at the loom, and the mode of weaving in Japan, the party moved on.
That was before the war, however, and in retrospect the figures do not loom so large by any means!
She questioned, as the older woman, very red in the face, came back to her seat by the loom.
However large they loom in the writings of extant poets, we may remember that poets are emotionally privileged people.
On the big loom in the dining room he has woven all the lovely curtains for the lodge windows.
His magic had gone; little things done in careless confidence now suddenly loomed up huge and threatening against him.
He clattered away over the stony icy fields toward the shelter of the dark hills looming to the north.
And as he crept along, a figure loomed ahead, holding up its left hand as a signal for him to stop.
The looms are very complicated and expensive affairs, and do not belong to the weaver but to the manufacturer.
As he approached more closely the dark bulk of a ship loomed before him out of the blackness of the night.
They never loomed distinctly to my eye before, and the sun never shone on them from heaven till then.
It was the like look round to the west, but beyond the loom of high hills are very faintly distinguished.
And as sailors feel the loom of the land on dark nights, so I think I feel the loom of your body.
There was much to do in heading straight and in easing up when the great waves loomed through the fog.
Once, very far away, the looming horizon was veined with lightning; and, after a long time, thunder sounded.
Suddenly, out of the wall of dusk that edged the strip of road loomed a horse's head, and then another.
It needed not the shadows of death to make the figure of the late President loom large in the estimate of mankind.
The interest of the young people, however, lay in the bit of land that loomed up some five miles away.
She was all white against the dark, seemed to loom in it taller than she was or could have been.
The two before them loomed big in the symbolism of the wide world of men's endurance and determination and courage.
He mortgaged and sold all he had and kept his looms going till the war was practically over.
The first show us the secrets of their looms without much difficulty; the others conceal them from us.
Daddy John loomed up above the lip of Ash Hollow with a load of roots and branches for the night.
He could see a huge confused mass dimly looming out of the fog ahead, and a little to one side of him.
Within a few yards the brakes went on with a jerk, and a tall crane loomed up vaguely in front.
A moment later, just as he reached the shore, the form of a man loomed up dimly through the darkness.
This conception of a universal being of "absolute goodness" looms like a colossal corpse in front of all living movement.
Ahead of them loomed the lofty elevation that possibly from its shape had long been known as Big Bear Mountain.
Every one gets out, goes forward as far as the engine, which looms up in the night and becomes huge.
Then my white umbrella would loom up as large as a circus tent, the usual crowd surging about its doors.
The minister looked and looked, but there was nothing on the empty loom and of course he could see nothing.
The long, low wall of stone, with gates of iron, loomed up like some sullen monster before the determined men.
Under nearly every house there will be a loom, where the wife or daughter weaves for herself or for sale.
Then circumstance begins to run brightly on the loom, and a million voices join in the din of the dawn.
Just at this moment, when she felt quite secure, a figure loomed up suddenly before her and barred the way.
As a memorial of eternal shame, the dark, crude structure loomed out through the white mists of the brilliant night.
Other girls took up the lines, and soon the glorious song was ringing above the noise of all the looms.
A flutter of white, a shadowy figure looming large in the mist, then gradually resolving itself into a woman's form.
This fancied obstacle in the way that loomed so large in her eyes, he did not fear in the least.
This possible future marriage of his son, breaking into their close companionship, was the dreaded shadow that loomed ever ahead.
She had only taken a few steps in the garden, when a tall, almost gigantic, figure loomed up before her.
Directly across the narrow waters he steered until in a brief time the shore of Drummond Island loomed before them.
There sat the wooden wife in front of the loom, with her back to them, exactly like a woman weaving.
A loom occupies the corner of every dwelling, and every spare moment is given to twisting thread with a spindle.
He was a great figure, looming immense upon the financial horizon; but no one had ever heard of the bride.