impendent
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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
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 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
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
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
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