impendent

Example Sentences

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

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert

Yet of the two the gloomier face showed below the count's coronet, for Perion did not relish the impendent interview with King Theodoret.

From Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship by Cabell, James Branch

How changes now the sentry's mien,    How soft his tones and low, As Laura Secord tells her tale    Of an impendent foe!

From Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. by Curzon, Sarah Anne

The sea is calm, touched here and there on the fringes of the bays and headlands with silvery light; and impendent crags loom black and sombre against the feeble azure of the moonlit sky.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington

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.