The fleet was on mid ocean; land no more / was visible, naught else above, before / but sky and sea, when overhead did loom / a storm-cloud, black as heaven itself, that bore / dark night and wintry tempest in its womb, / and all the waves grew rough and shuddered with the gloom.

Dark clouds are looming overhead.

It was a spacious harbour, sheltered deep / from access of the winds, but looming vast / with awful ravage, AEtna's neighbouring steep / thundered aloud, and, dark with clouds, upcast / smoke and red cinders in a whirlwind's blast. / Live balls of flame, with showers of sparks, upflew / and licked the stars, and in combustion massed, / torn rocks, her ragged entrails, molten new, / the rumbling mount belched forth from out the boiling stew.

Two dark, jagged peaks loomed above them through the darkness.

Few people weave their own fabric on a loom these days.

I perceived an object looming through the mist.

Soon, where Leucate lifts her cloud-capt head, / looms forth Apollo's fane, the seaman's name of dread.

Many good grades will loom on the horizon.

Dread shapes and forms terrific loomed in sight, / and hostile deities, whose faces frowned / destruction.

It doesn't seem possible that the term is nearly over," said Anne. "Why, last fall it seemed so long to look forward to--a whole winter of studies and classes. And here we are, with the exams looming up next week."