impendent
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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
The glittering floor stretched away for acres of untenanted expanse, with not a skater to explore those dark mysterious coves, or strike across the slanting sunlight poured from clefts in the impendent hills.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
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
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
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
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