Meanings of towered between in English

Thus the original wall must have towered between twenty and thirty feet above the plain.

The mountains towered between them and their old enemies, but also between them and escape.

No power of heaven or earth could burst open the doors or demolish the walls that towered between them for all eternity.

And how she revelled in the Brobdingnagian drawings of her, which, printed in nineteen colours, towered between the columns or sprawled across them!