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Definition of Toweringly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toweringly
Literary usage of Toweringly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Études sur la Queste del saint graal attribuée à Gautier Map by Albert Pauphilet, Colonel Bell Burr, Ernst Ziegler, Douglas Symmers (1921)
"... the weak and defenseless, and as to the toweringly high quality of American
manhood and chivalry displayed without exception in this shocking disaster. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1847)
"... as Mr. С woe: calls it, tiie East American came Out in defence of justice as
toweringly as even Maga herself. The " British Authors' petition" had been ..."
3. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1850)
"Thus it will appear that the manufacture of cotton goods does not stand in so
toweringly pre-eminent a position among the sources of British employment as ..."
4. The New York Times Current History (1916)
"The simplicity and enormity of the Belgian story can best be set forth, perhaps,
in four truisms, all toweringly self-evident. First, of course, the mere ..."
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