And it is possible to look right down into the vast yellow funnel which once proudly towered above the entire vessel.

Where the mighty rock once towered, crowded with homes and crowned with a palace, now rushes and raves a stone-obstructed rapid of the river.

A glacier's southern edge is marked by this line of hills; a mile-high wall of ice once towered over this very spot.

The once towering CBS "Evening News" had its lowest rating since 1951.

Instead, temple precincts rose gently from forested slopes which once towered overhead.

His father, who once towered over him, would always kneel to his level when it was time for a chat.

Across the street, where Lenin's likeness once towered, the pedestal has been decorated with a tribute from a spray can to Pink Floyd.

The Bahamas islands are the flattened peaks of a huge ancient mountain range that once towered many thousands of feet into the sky.

Even in a morning rain, people kept coming down the winding back road to stare at the space where the oak once towered 109 feet.

The coal-mining waste tip that lay between Bargoed and Aberbargoed once towered to a height of 400 feet in the 1970s.