impendent
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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 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
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
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
The sea is calm, touched here and there on the fringes of the bays and headlands with silvery light; and impendent crags loom black and sombre against the feeble azure of the moonlit sky.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
