Imminent

Examples

• The gleaming blondness of his strange, imminent being put the father into a fever of fretful irritation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The more the door resisted him, the more dangerous and imminent became that bloody conspiracy against his life. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• As he went out into the wintry night, New York again became vast and imminent, and May Welland the loveliest woman in it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• As Jane opened her eyes to a realization of the imminent peril which threatened her, her brave young heart gave up at last its final vestige of hope. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Here is the statement which was drawn up by my father when he knew that the danger from Hudson had become imminent. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The extinction of scientific and of all other learning seemed imminent. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Nothing but the most imminent personal peril could justify our taking that second course. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• So did all the rest of Brussels--where people felt that the fight of the day before was but the prelude to the greater combat which was imminent. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Just before the outbreak of the Spanish War in 1898 he felt that such a machine might be of service to his country in the event of hostilities that seemed to him imminent. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It now appeared that war was imminent, and he felt that it was his duty to brush up his tactics. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The words were not without emotion, and retained their level tone as if by a careful equipoise between imminent extremes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• We are still surrounded by mountains of ice, still in imminent danger of being crushed in their conflict. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• On the night of the 19th he received notice from the admiral that he had been attacked by sharp-shooters and was in imminent peril. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The French Revolution was imminent, and Fulton was busy studying the conditions that were leading to it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• To humour your guilty elder son, you have exposed your innocent younger son to imminent and unnecessary danger. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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