impendent

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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 Curzon, Sarah Anne

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 Barber, J. T.

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

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

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.