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

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

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

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