pensile
Example Sentences
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They construct pensile nests composed of interlaced grass and other similar materials.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section T, U, V, and W by Project Gutenberg
I have sometimes compared him to the silver and graceful ash, with its pensile branches, and leaves of gentle green, reflecting gleams of happy sunshine.
From The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne by Bonar, Andrew A.
Be careful to distinguish between pencil, an instrument for writing, and pensile, meaning hanging down.
From Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected by Anonymous
The lambkin crops its crimson gem, The wild-bee murmurs on its breast, The blue-fly bends its pensile stem, Light o'er the sky-lark's nest.
From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by Richardson, David Lester
One day I was taken by a native to the centre of a brush, where a gigantic cotton-tree standing alone was hung with about fifty of the large pensile nests of this species.
