Impended

In that respect private capitalism under a consolidated plutocracy, such as impended at the time of the Revolution, would have been a worse threat to the world's future than the competitive system; but as to the immediate bearings of the two systems on human welfare, private capital in the consolidated form might have had some points of advantage. ❋ Edward Bellamy (1874)

Placing the can carefully upon the ground between his legs, he covered it with his hat and waited anxiously whatever impended. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He knew the prod of impulse to join in this rush away from some unthinkably catastrophic event that impended and that stirred his intuitive apprehensions of death. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then he identified the noise, know that no harm impended, and resumed his stealthy advance on the Irish terrier. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Just a hit of a jerk spoiled his dancing -- a jerk that did not occur, usually, but that always impended. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Once the right to graze on the commons is assigned, the owner has the economic incentive to allow the maximum number of cows on the grasslands to maximize profit, but halt grazing at the precise point where future profitability is impended by overgrazing. ❋ Matthew Bergman (2010)

But no immediate danger impended — the Countess was in a strong castle, under the protection of a Prince, at once respectable for his secular and venerable for his ecclesiastical authority. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I do think it's far more possible now than it was in 2006 when the Iraq report came in saying we were losing the war and catastrophe impended. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The sense of hearing, no less than the sense of sight, was troubled by having to wait so long for the change, whatever it might be, that impended. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But as the evening grew darker and darker, and the great city impended nearer and nearer, the doubts usual in such cases began to arise. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Yet I was so certain that the prospect of such a sacrifice afar off, must destroy the happiness of Agnes; and I was so sure, from her manner, of its being unseen by her then, and having cast no shadow on her yet; that I could as soon have injured her, as given her any warning of what impended. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Ladies and gentlemen, — The shadow of one word has impended over me this evening, and the time has come at length when the shadow must fall. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Mr Pinch and Martin, little dreaming of the stormy weather that impended, made themselves very comfortable in the Pecksniffian halls, and improved their friendship daily. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I just finished my comps and am ready to propose my dissertation, but that's so scary because I'm literally terrified of the impended job search. ❋ Unknown (2005)

This particular phase, he felt with gratitude, could not last for ever; whatever impended (even the gallows, he bitterly and perhaps erroneously reflected) could not fail to be a relief. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The motions of these men were slow and solemn, as if there impended over their souls some preconception of horror and of cruelty. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Her apprehensions heightened her difficulties: she thought she distinguished the voices of men at some little distance, and she increased her speed till the found herself on the sea sands over which the woods impended. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Dark woods, intermingled with bold projections of rock, sometimes barren, and sometimes covered with the purple bloom of wild flowers, impended over the lake, and were seen in the clear mirror of its waters. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Sometimes he thought that some vast exodus impended. ❋ Unknown (2004)