impendent

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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

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.

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

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 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