levelled
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When in his ruthless fury he Levelled his flashing bolt at me, The great-souled Wind inclined to save, And laid me neath the ocean's wave.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
Late western sunbeams on your broad trunks bloom, Levelled from the low opposing hill, and fold Your inmost conclave with a burning gold.
From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John
Each at the life Levelled his deadly aim; their fatal hands No second stroke intended.—Milton.
From Cruel As The Grave by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
Like the snaky torch-flame white, Levelled as aloft it twists, She, her soaring arms, and wrists Drooping, struggles with the light, Helios, bright above all mists!
From Poems — Volume 1 by Meredith, George
Levelled by time, and washed by winter rains, the adobe walls of the church have sunk into indistinguishable heaps of earth which vaguely define the outlines of the ancient edifice.
From The Old Franciscan Missions Of California by James, George Wharton