impendent

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On leaving Bualt, and crossing its bridge, the tourist enters Radnorshire, where the road, traced upon heights impendent over the Wye, commands one of the most beautifully romantic vallies in the principality. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

I cherished the most optimistic ideas as to my impendent moustache, and was wont in privacy to encourage it with the manicure-scissors.

From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by Cabell, James Branch

The glittering floor stretched away for acres of untenanted expanse, with not a skater to explore those dark mysterious coves, or strike across the slanting sunlight poured from clefts in the impendent hills.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

From this spot a ditch-like road, almost impracticable for carriages, strikes off among the mountains, “Through tangled forests, and through dang’rous ways,” carried upon precipices impendent over the brawling torrent of the Hondy. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

Nec omnibus, sed mercatoribus et iis qui honeste impendent, &c.

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert