"Imminence" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... weakness. The supernatural remains outside nature, crude, as all stage representations of it must be, but unobtrusive (and, in the prologue, at least, thoroughly dignified), serving a useful purpose in keeping before us the imminence of Nemesis biding its appointed hour. It is not easy to suggest how better an insistence upon this lofty motif could ...
— The Growth of English Drama • Arnold Wynne
... the valley of Sidith. For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war. ...
— The Gods of Pegana • Lord Dunsany [Edward J. M. D. Plunkett]
... the group over the individual conscience. Already the exploiting class, as it neared the term of its depleted life, was but a mass of purulence. Society was rotten, the state a pious criminal, the old truths tawdry lies. Everywhere the impotence of senility—except in young America. We faced the imminence of a vast breaking-up. The subtlest oligarchy of modern times was about to crumble. The revolution was ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... odd corners for their caps, the boys finally found them all and departed gayly on their way, only slightly depressed by the imminence of the fall term ...
— The Radio Boys at the Sending Station - Making Good in the Wireless Room • Allen Chapman
... January 20, 1895. He never recovered from the severe shock caused by hemorrhage, after receiving the second message from his father and recorded above. He appreciated the imminence of death acutely, and struggled to complete, as he has, the narrative of his life. My daughter was not again seen by Mr. Dodd, though he received several letters from her, which were found beneath his pillow ...
— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap
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