pensile
Example Sentences
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There was also a weeping willow close by, whose pensile tresses of new verdure touched the half-broken walls of earth underneath.
From Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan by Wilson, Epiphanius
They build pensile nests of strips of bark and fibres, swung from the forks of branches.
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 Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert)
These are in great part perpendicular, and are over clambered with airy stairways climbing to pensile arbors.
From Italian Journeys by Howells, William Dean
I have sometimes compared him to the silver and graceful ash, with its pensile branches, and leaves of gentle green, reflecting gleams of happy sunshine.
From The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne by Bonar, Andrew A.
One day I was taken by a native to the centre of a brush, where a gigantic cotton-tree standing alone was hung with about fifty of the large pensile nests of this species.
