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Updated: May 19, 2025
Every king, within his own territories, is placed for a shining example as it were in the firmament of his wide-spread dominions, to prove either a glorious star of benign influence, if his behaviour be remarkably just and innocent, or else to impend as a threatening comet, if his blazing power be pestilent and hurtful.
He predicted many things, some of which have thus far transpired, and others still seem to impend which we do not wish to recite, lest it may be inferred that they are narrated either from hatred toward one or from partiality to another.
"There is yet another part he played," said he, "as I have good cause to remember for he is the only man that can boast of having unhorsed Ramiro del' Orca. He was for a brief season the Lord Giovanni Sforza himself." "How?" asked the profoundly amazed Filippo, whilst all present pressed closer to miss nothing of the disclosure that seemed to impend. Myself, I groaned.
Come, come, Lady Dedlock, we must not fence and parry now. You know you like this girl." "Well, sir?" "And you know and I know that you have not sent her away for the reasons you have assigned, but for the purpose of separating her as much as possible from excuse my mentioning it as a matter of business any reproach and exposure that impend over yourself." "Well, sir?"
Columbus was accustomed to the peculiarities of a military life, and he repeatedly wrote letters, in critical moments, as a precaution against some fatal occurrence that seemed to impend. The present codicil, from its date, must have been written a few days previous to his death, perhaps at a moment when he imagined himself at extremity.
Peel was not wholly blind to what was happening. 'A darker cloud than ever, he wrote, 'seems to me to impend over Ireland, that is if one of the remaining bonds of society, the friendly connection between landlord and tenant, is dissolved. He still persuaded himself, however, that the political power of the priests was transient, and that a reaction would set in that might destroy it.
In the dream she is told that all around her unnumbered fairy spirits fly guarding her from evil "Of these am I, who thy protection claim, A watchful sprite, and Ariel is my name. Late, as I ranged the crystal wilds of air, In the clear mirror of thy ruling star I saw, alas! some dread event impend, Ere to the main this morning sun descend.
The vessel ploughs through the billowy waters in onward progress, and the soul is left in silent harmony to enjoy the change. The passage of the Highlands is most delightful. Clouds impend over their summits, and the thoughts pierce the vast abyss. Ah! Julia, these are moments of awful romance; how the soul longs for the consolations of friendship.
Behind the stranger pressed his three companions now, whilst the troopers across the room forgot their card-play to watch the altercation that seemed to impend. The foreigner for such, indeed, his French proclaimed him turned half-contemptuously to the host, ignoring Garnache with an air that was studiously offensive. "Jackanapes?" murmured Garnache again, and he, too, turned to the host.
Unhappy Bourbons! a fatality seems to impend over the race; and Charles the Tenth appears doomed to die, as he has lived the greater portion of his life, in exile.
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