impendent

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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

The most interesting examples of these cliffs are usually to be seen impendent above strong torrents, which, if forced originally to run in a valley, such as a in Fig.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by Ruskin, John

From this place a path, traced under the woods, descends to the bath, a commodious building concealed from outward view by impendent foliage.

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

He smiled, with a twinging undercurrent of regret that not even in impendent death did he find any stimulus to the heroical.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch