archangelic

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

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)

The sideboard too was there, larger and richer perhaps, of Spanish mahogany not an inch of which was left bare of garlands of flowers or archangelic faces.

From A Bed of Roses by George, Walter Lionel

On your couch of glory slumber comes   Bosomed amid the archangelic choir; Not with the grumble of impetuous drums   Deepening the chorus of embattled ire.

From War Poetry of the South by Various