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Definition of Impends
1. impend [v] - See also: impend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impends
Literary usage of Impends
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In war when extra-hazardous work impends volunteers arc called for. Similarly in
industrial life, it is a matter for the individual to decide whether he ..."
2. The Bacchanals and Other Plays by Euripides by Euripides (1888)
"... the blow Ordained by Heaven to lay thy children low, And thy lamented bride:
O man, how little dost thou know That o'er thy head impends severest woe ! ..."
3. Beautiful thoughts from Latin authors by Craufurd Tait Ramage (1869)
"Hasten on thy mighty deeds ; black <death impends over thee in the midst of thy
labours. STATIUS BORN ABOUT AD Gl-DIED ABOUT AD CO. ..."
4. The Oriental Herald and Journal of General Literature by James Silk Buckingham (1824)
"It is not that euch a regulation impends over me, a« well as every other subject
in the Island ; it is not because in the possible case of a bad Governor a ..."
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