"Pensile" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thy pensile beauty burns When soft the tear of twilight flows; So due thy plighted love returns To chambers ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... for me to attempt; yet as large and lofty as they were, they were completed in fifteen days. [22] He also erected elevated places for walking, of stone, and made it resemble mountains, and built it so that it might be planted with all sorts of trees. He also erected what was called a pensile paradise, because his wife was desirous to have things like her own country, she having been bred up in the palaces of Media." Megasthenes also, in his fourth book of his Accounts of India, makes mention of these things, and thereby endeavors to show that ...
— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus |
