Example Sentences

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Then Night, that grim, gigantic struggle won, Impended for a breath on wings of doom, And through the air fell like a falling sky.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton

They had her, as the screen said, "Depressed by the Grim Menace of Tragedy that Impended in the Shadows."

From Merton of the Movies by Wilson, Harry Leon

But I, assured that evil from the Gods Impended, gath’ring all my gallant fleet, Fled thence in haste, and warlike Diomede Exhorting his attendants, also fled.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William