pensile
Example Sentences
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They stood upon bases, measuring 6 feet by 4 1/2 feet, ornamented carefully on each side with garlands hanging in festoons, literally, "garlands, pensile work."
From Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters by George Milligan
The spines of the Pinus Maritima are longer than those of the Pinus Lariccio, and the branches more pensile.
From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester
My plumy pairs, in gay embroidery dressed, Form with ingenious skill the pensile nest; To Love's sweet notes attune the listening dell, And Echo sounds her soft symphonious shell.
From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Sue Petigru Bowen
He analyzes a pensile nest which he found in the woods—doubtless one of the vireo's—and fills ten pages with a minute description of the different materials which it contained.
From The Last Harvest by John Burroughs
The moon shone down, but the shadows deep Of the pensile flowers, were hushed in sleep.
From Poems by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
