pensile
Example Sentences
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Hail, pensile gem, that thus can softly gild The starry coronal of quiet eve!
From Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Eliza Paul Gurney
Even better known than the birds, are the pensile nests which retain their positions on the swaying drooping branches all through the winter.
From The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. by Chester A. (Chester Albert) Reed
The "pensile Lilac" has been sung by many poets; but the spirit of the flower has been best portrayed in verse by Elizabeth Akers.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
They stood upon bases, measuring 6 feet by 4 1/2 feet, ornamented carefully on each side with garlands hanging in festoons, literally, "garlands, pensile work."
From Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters by George Milligan
Four or five weeping-willows, their stems leaning towards the grave, hang their pensile branches over it.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832 by Various
