pensile
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The crested waters sleep; White stars their emerald twilight keep Above the tryst of pensile glories That kiss to purple-and-gold the deep.
From Song-waves by Theodore H. (Theodore Harding) Rand
They stood upon bases, measuring 6 feet by 4 1/2 feet, ornamented carefully on each side with garlands hanging in festoons, literally, "garlands, pensile work."
From Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters by George Milligan
These are in great part perpendicular, and are over clambered with airy stairways climbing to pensile arbors.
From Italian Journeys by William Dean Howells
Nest—Very rare, only six known; of hair, feathers, moss, etc., bulky, globular, and partly pensile.
From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 3 September 1897 by Various
Like the others, it builds a long pensile nest of similar material and suspended from the extremities of limbs near the ground The five to seven eggs are pure white.
From The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. by Chester A. (Chester Albert) Reed
