overtower

Everything which surrounds the Cathedral of Avignon, its situation, its city, its history, is so full of romance and glamour that it is only after very sober second thought one realises that the church itself is the least of the papal buildings which majestically overtower the Rhone, or of those royal ruins which face them as proudly on the opposite bank of the river.

Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

Lofty mountains, sublime in their grandeur, overtower and surround this place, and its only exposure is southward toward the sun.

A Negro Explorer at the North Pole Matthew A. Henson 1888

In the instants of greatest danger, each time that a fresh mountain of water rose behind them, came to overtower them, and crash horribly against their boat, one of their hands would move as if involuntarily, to form the sign of the cross.

An Iceland Fisherman Pierre Loti 1886

In the field of Buddhism we have a luxuriant growth of new and strange species of colossal weeds that overtower and seem to have choked out whatever furze of original Buddhism there was in Japan, while in the domain of

The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji William Elliot Griffis 1885

Confounded be all those Babels of iniquity which would overtower and destroy the home.

The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony 1867