impendent

Example Sentences

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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 Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

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 Barber, J. T.

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 Cabell, James Branch

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 Cabell, James Branch

Nec omnibus, sed mercatoribus et iis qui honeste impendent, &c.

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert