impendent
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
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
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 Sarah Anne Curzon
