wreckful

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O how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays?

From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various

I saw that whilst I had imagined my 'mountain to stand strong,' it was yet heaving with the wreckful fire.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

Would I were flint, to front the tempest's power, Wave-buffeted on some wild, wreckful shore!

From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Williams, Theodore C.

O how shall summer's honey breath hold out, Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong but time decays?

From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Palgrave, Francis Turner

A great library, therefore, does not merely transmit the memory of the past; it is daily providing memory for the future, safe preserved “against the wreckful siege of battering days.”

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore