pensile

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The crested waters sleep; White stars their emerald twilight keep Above the tryst of pensile glories That kiss to purple-and-gold the deep.

From Song-waves by Rand, Theodore H. (Theodore Harding)

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 Burroughs, John

The oriole uses them the most successfully, often attaching her pensile nest to the branch by their aid.

From Ways of Nature by Burroughs, John

These are in great part perpendicular, and are over clambered with airy stairways climbing to pensile arbors.

From Italian Journeys by Howells, William Dean

Every year of his life has he seen the beautiful Hang-Bird weave his pensile habitation upon the long and flexible branches of the Elm, secure from the reach of every living creature.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various