"Impendent" Quotes from Famous Books
... the girls might suffer less From the noon resplendent, Near the stream a spreading pine Rose with stem ascendant; Crowned with boughs and leaves aloft, O'er the fields impendent; From all heat on every ... — Wine, Women, and Song - Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse • Various
... mountains, and showing the rocks and water-weeds in the clear green depths below. The glittering floor stretched away for acres of untenanted expanse, with not a skater to explore those dark mysterious coves, or strike across the slanting sunlight poured from clefts in the impendent hills. Inshore the substance of the ice sparkled here and there with iridescence like the plumelets of a butterfly's wing under the microscope, wherever light happened to catch the jagged or oblique flaws that ... — Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds |