impendent
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The senate assembled, he declares the occasion of convening them; a bloody battle just impendent between two mighty armies of ancient and modern creatures, called books, wherein the celestial interest was but too deeply concerned.
From The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift
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
On leaving Bualt, and crossing its bridge, the tourist enters Radnorshire, where the road, traced upon heights impendent over the Wye, commands one of the most beautifully romantic vallies in the principality.
From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by J. T. Barber
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
Yet of the two the gloomier face showed below the count's coronet, for Perion did not relish the impendent interview with King Theodoret.
From Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship by James Branch Cabell
