Simply referred to by the man on the microphone as "Bob from Belize", Gabourel fought his way around two circuits of the loch as the threat of being lapped loomed.
Within this, symbolic landmarks like the Drum and Bell towers (of which only the Drum Tower survives), multi-tiered and symmetrically positioned, loomed over a predominantly flat landscape.
The row over the €40m (£34m) Allied Irish Banks bonuses deepened today after extraordinary claims that executives of the bank had tried to rush the payments through as the bailout loomed.
The spectre of the homosexual lobby loomed large at the rally, and featured in a booklet on sale by the ushers at the rally.
Having made his debut for the national team in 1991 under Arrigo Sacchi, Baggio had become a regular fixture in the Azzurri setup, however as the 1994 World Cup loomed, many felt he did not deserve a place in the squad.
As the abbey loomed out of the darkness that first night, red and blue light spilled out through stained glass windows, throwing a ring of kaleidoscopic patterns on to the ground around it and giving the illusion of an ethereal stage.
But it wasn't simply burning trees Sharen saw – what loomed above her was impossible, unimaginable, an endless dome of spitting, boiling red, like the dawn of hell itself over their pretty forest town.
Behind the officers with assault rifles across their chests the shrub-covered hills loomed, a place where residents nearby said they have long suspected unspeakable things happened.
Eliot still loomed large in our pantheon, as the titles of Iain's novels Consider Phlebas and Look to Windward suggest.
However, another mass confrontation was averted on Tuesday only thanks to members of the notorious Bloods and Crips gangs, who teamed with community activists to push hundreds more protesters, who had demonstrated late into the evening, back to their homes as the curfew loomed.
At the end of a windy car park, the triumphal Tesco sign loomed.
