impendent

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The senate assembled, he declares the occasion of convening them; a bloody battle just impendent between two mighty armies of ancient and modern creatures, called books, wherein the celestial interest was but too deeply concerned. 

From The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces by Swift, Jonathan

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

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.

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.