impendent
Example Sentences
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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 J. T. Barber
How changes now the sentry's mien, How soft his tones and low, As Laura Secord tells her tale Of an impendent foe!
From Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. by Sarah Anne Curzon
He smiled, with a twinging undercurrent of regret that not even in impendent death did he find any stimulus to the heroical.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell
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 John Ruskin
From this place a path, traced under the woods, descends to the bath, a commodious building concealed from outward view by impendent foliage.
From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by J. T. Barber
