"Before us," says Dr. Fay, "rose this beetling face of dark rock, with little snow patches here and there revealing possible stations, between which only cracks and slight protuberances offered scanty holds for foot and hand."
"Among the Canadian Alps"
Lawrence J. Burpee
The gen-d'arme in whose guardianship I had been left was a fine specimen of his caste; a large and powerfully built man of about fifty, with an enormous beard of grizzly brown and grey hair, meeting above and beneath his nether lip; his eyebrows were heavy and beetling, and nearly concealed his sharp grey eyes, while a deep sabre-wound had left upon his cheek a long white scar, giving a most warlike and ferocious look to his features.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
Black and bold and bare the mountain Modelled into many shapes, Cones and pyramids and pillars, beetling cliffs and jutting capes.
"A Legend of Old Persia and Other Poems"
A. B. S. Tennyson