pensile

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Hail, pensile gem, that thus can softly gild The starry coronal of quiet eve!

From Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Gurney, Eliza Paul

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

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various

Four or five weeping-willows, their stems leaning towards the grave, hang their pensile branches over it.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832 by Various

Who, o'er her palaces and buried towers, Shall bid the owl hoot, and the bittern scream; And on her pensile groves and pleasant shades 80 Pour the deep waters of forgetfulness.

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by Gilfillan, George

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 Milligan, George