beetling

• His short cropped hair was of a fiery auburn, and his rough features, with a prodigious mustache and the most ponderous over-beetling eyebrows I had ever seen, gave him a look rather of ferocity than of good-nature. —  In Direst Peril
• But he had great beetling, ape-like eyebrow ridges and massive jaws, and he showed "simian characters swarming in the details of his structure." —  The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
• These eternal laws of God rose up to stay the progress of slavery like the beetling granite cliffs of Maine, that send forth their voice to the onrushing tides, saying, "Here stay your proud waves--thus far, and no farther Ancestry, opportunity and events all conspired to equip Charles Sumner with those implements that make man great. —  The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict
• Boys, maidens joy around To touch the ropes, and raise the festive song Onward it came, smooth-sliding on the ground And, beetling, o'er the midmost city frowned O native land! —  The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor
• Their resting-place was in the shadow of a beetling, weather-beaten rock that still bore traces of hieroglyphic carvings. —  The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert

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