archangelic

Example Sentences

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Army Intelligence Center at Oberammergau, he has been pounding away at Communism with archangelic zeal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oh! to what unguessed archangelic observation, to what infinite seraphic compassion, may not our own swarming race, who dare not too much pity ourselves, be but just such dainty ephemera!

From Strong Hearts by Cable, George Washington

It may not make you happier, but it will make you wiser, and wisdom ranks high in heaven: Gabriel, Raphael, Michael,—'tis the second person in that archangelic trinity.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various

Think of it, these angelic reed-birds, the divine terrapin, the duck they call canvas, the archangelic wild turkey, unappreciated, crudely cooked; the Madeira—ah, mon Dieu!

From The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)

Rather the hills seemed to turn about me like the enormous sails of a windmill, a vast wheel of monstrous archangelic wings.

From Tremendous Trifles by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)