| 1. | On the night ere the pending battle many seek me, and I do not fail them. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | He had the body taken to the waiting-room pending the arrival of the ambulance. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 3. | Madame Thenardier had died in prison pending the trial. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |