impend vs poke out

impend

verb
  • Figuratively to hang over (someone) as a threat or danger. 

  • To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent. 

poke out

verb
  • To be barely visible past an obstruction or obstructions; to protrude. 

  • To remove (something) by poking (often creating a hole in the process). 

  • To cause (something) to protrude or emerge. 

  • To emerge from behind, in, or under something. 

How often have the words impend and poke out occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )