The Only Use of
impending
in
Lord of the Flies
- Toward noon, as the floods of light fell more nearly to the perpendicular, the stark colors of the morning were smoothed in pearl and opalescence; and the heat—as though the impending sun's height gave it momentum—became a blow that they ducked, running to the shade and lying there, perhaps even sleeping.†
p. 58.3impending = about to happen
Definition:
about to happen -- especially of something unpleasant or feared