All 4 Uses of
impending
in
Great Expectations
- The interest of the impending pursuit not only absorbed the general attention, but even made my sister liberal.†
p. 32.3 *impending = about to happen
- "You had no idea of your impending good fortune, in those times?" said Estella, with a slight wave of her hand, signifying in the fighting times.†
p. 250.7
- And now that I have given the one chapter to the theme that so filled my heart, and so often made it ache and ache again, I pass on unhindered, to the event that had impended over me longer yet; the event that had begun to be prepared for, before I knew that the world held Estella, and in the days when her baby intelligence was receiving its first distortions from Miss Havisham's wasting hands.†
p. 332.4
- "I have an impending engagement," said I, glancing at Wemmick, who was putting fish into the post-office, "that renders me rather uncertain of my time.†
p. 412.9impending = about to happen
Definition:
about to happen -- especially of something unpleasant or feared