At least I left it interested, as I had never thought to be, in the great struggle which seemed to me impending between the parties of reaction in Islam and reform, and not a little hopeful as to its favourable issue.
It seems to be an universal opinion at the present day among those who think at all upon the matter, that whatever change may be impending for Islam, it will be in the direction of concentration rather than of extension.
I have never been greedy for money, I have never wanted to be rich, but I felt now an immense sense of impending deprivation.
I remember that even at the sight of him I had a sense of impending calamity.
His letter in response to the one in which she informed him of her impending engagement to Eduard Desmond had confirmed her faith in his uncanny insight.
So it happened that Mr. Blair was delighted and amazed and a little perturbed to receive a few days later a note from Joan Darcy, inviting him to sit on a certain evening in the Darcy box at the impending Horse Show.
Amalric, with sudden pain in his voice, for it was not like the Earl thus to speak of impending disaster; his was rather a nature that looked forward to triumph and success.
What fate is impending over the dear ones, who are so worthy of the greatest happiness?
Antony is at their head, and he, whose giant frame resists even the most unprecedented demands, succeeds in stupefying himself and forgetting the impending ruin.
Anukis uttered a sigh of relief and then, in a tone of the most earnest warning, poured forth the story of the impending danger.
The stone image had felt what was impending over the living Mark Antony.
But Dion wished to greet him among the youths who had invited the architect to give them his aid in deciding the question of the course they were to pursue in the impending battle.
He would gladly wait there longer to afford the old man's granddaughter an opportunity to soften the tidings of the impending misfortune.
And should the abbat, or any monk of that place, upon his journey, meet a thief going to the gallows, or to any other punishment of death, they shall have power of rescuing him from the impending danger throughout my kingdom.
His belief in an impending Russian Revolution was unshaken.
Without, the heavens were dark with the portents of impending social convulsions.
On the 21st of September, the appointed day, five hundred of the leading evangelical theologians and laymen of Germany were present, to adopt whatever measures might be thought best to avert existing and impending evils.
And all the while his mind waited, awed, for the impending catastrophe.
Babanchik came to us often in those last weeks, inexpressibly saddened by our impending departure; and his discussions, to which father listened a bit abstractedly now, grew ever more violent.
The master machine had seen its impending fate in the visors, and was organizing a defense.
On the oval visor-screen above the banked buttons of his station I saw the impending catastrophe.
An impending break is indicated by an uneven contour of the strands beneath the serving.
Penetrating and quavering, it rings out on the night gloom, and brings to the human what it must, in a similar way, bring to the lesser animals a sense of impending attack, a death warning.
The deepest tragic notes are often struck by a half sense of an impending blow.
A man so gifted should continue to give warning of impending dangers.
Matthias, for all that idyllic existence in which everything succeeded with him and smiled upon him, seemed, said Oxenford, to wear the aspect of one living in a world of terrors, where all was torture and impending destruction.
The drama was written, but attained only a fourth performance, and did not save the actor from his impending expedition.
I need not state the causes of the impending war either to my faithful people or to the Germans in general.
Once a begging friar came limping along in a brown habit, imploring in a most dolorous voice to give him a single groat to buy bread wherewith to save himself from impending death.
The projecting peak of an impending crag which rose near it had acquired the name of Saint Swithin's Chair.
Should Flora even listen to his suit favourably, what prospect was there of its being brought to a happy termination amid the tumult of an impending insurrection?
The fire spread fast--the sky itself seemed aflame with the warning of impending destruction.
Appalled by the impending fate of the island, all the natives who had been left below, were seen at a distance beckoning to their companions to make haste.
You had no idea of your impending good fortune, in those times?
The interest of the impending pursuit not only absorbed the general attention, but even made my sister liberal.
But no mere mystery can hold the mind against impending peril; and I was less exercised to account for the downfall of these poor people than in wondering whether it would be followed by that of their friend and mine.
She told me a lot about the impending libel action.
A faithful freedman, at imminent risk of his life, made his way to Asia, arrived before Nero’s centurion, and warned Rubellius of his impending doom.
Willock could, in truth, do nothing, except shout a warning, and this he forebore lest it hasten the impending catastrophe.
Heath for impending toil his falchion draws, And fearless Wooster aids the sacred cause, Mercer advanced an early death to prove, Sinclair and Mifflin swift to combat move; Here stood stern Putnam, scored with ancient scars.
He opes the cause, and points in prospect far Thro all the toils that wait impending war: But, reverend sage!
The Peruvian Government does not seem to realize the calamity impending over the country on the exhaustion of the guano beds, which would dry up one of its principal sources of revenue.
Because he foresees an impending result, he may do something that will lead to the situation eventuating in some other way.
When the trouble is not only impending but completely actual and present, we are overwhelmed.
