beetling

These gave place at last to things less and less unspeakable; till at last, from beneath the very brow of the beetlings and the menacings of the Terror Stone came the audible words of Pierre:—

As I anticipated, we had passed right through the precipice, and were now on the farther side, and immediately beneath its beetling face.

The beetling head of the cliff projected over the cane-brake.

Put a clay pipe in [Richard] Nixon’s mouth and a hod on his shoulder or a shillelagh in his hand, and there, complete with beetling brows and uptilted nose, is the original of the old cartoon stereoty

Onward it came, smooth-sliding on the ground, / an, beetling, o'er the midmost city frowned.