All 3 Uses of
impending
in
David Copperfield
- The bolt is impending, and the tree must fall.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- The impending shadow of a great affliction, and a great disgrace that had no distinct form in it yet, fell like a stain upon the quiet place where I had worked and played as a boy, and did it a cruel wrong.†
Chpt 19-21
- 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.†
Chpt 25-27
Definition:
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(impending) about to happen -- especially of something unpleasant or feared