impendent

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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

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 Swift, Jonathan

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 Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

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.

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