impendent
Example Sentences
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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 James Branch Cabell
The senate assembled, he declares the occasion of convening them; a bloody battle just impendent between two mighty armies of ancient and modern creatures, called books, wherein the celestial interest was but too deeply concerned.
From The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift
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 James Branch Cabell
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 J. T. Barber
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 John Addington Symonds
