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 Cabell, James Branch

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.

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

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert

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

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 Ruskin, John