impendent
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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
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
I cherished the most optimistic ideas as to my impendent moustache, and was wont in privacy to encourage it with the manicure-scissors.
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell
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
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
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