impendent

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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

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 Symonds, John Addington

On leaving Bualt, and crossing its bridge, the tourist enters Radnorshire, where the road, traced upon heights impendent over the Wye, commands one of the most beautifully romantic vallies in the principality. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

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

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