archangelic

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

And youth can have something of that archangelic rigidity.

From Adam Johnstone's Son by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

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)

Gabriel was duly archangelic in this regard; the other's only freedom a habit of calling a thing an 'ell of a thing, and on occasion an Elizabethan expressiveness, entirely inoffensive in his mouth.

From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)