reck

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If then, out of reck lessness, the French people opposed it, what kind of man would I be if with out delay I did not draw the consequences of such a deep fissure?

From Time Magazine Archive

During those fretful days when two Germans and an Irishman bent over maps in the mess hall of Baldonnel Airdrome, little did they reck the possible consequences of their flight.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Hedges reck ons without Ry Slaight, a second-class man who stumbles upon the truth and then besieges it for nearly 500 pages, like Grant trying to take Richmond.

From Time Magazine Archive

No busy shuttle plied to deck With sunset tints the blushing rose, And little does the harebell reck Of toil and all its woes.

From Wayside Weeds by Ellis, William Hodgson

You two, who resent the intrusion of your fellows into this slumbrous retreat, you little reck that that intrusion is the saving of the life of at least one of you.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram