At last, he thought, the archangelic functions return. From Wordnik.com. [The Satanic Verses]
Michael, -- 'tis the second person in that archangelic trinity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
Fine sentiment, this noblesse oblige (cf. the archangelic dignity in Milton, Paradise Lost, I think). From Wordnik.com. [Cyropaedia] Reference
A thousand times over I was duped by dreams of an archangelic fusion of the opposing forces in the great strife of ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
And in the aftermath of Rosa and Rekha the dream-worlds of his archangelic other self begin to seem as tangible as the shifting realities he inhabits while he's awake. From Wordnik.com. [The Satanic Verses]
This book would not have happened without the support of my archangelic agent, Larry Kirshbaum, and my brilliant editor, Trish Todd, and I thank them for supporting me in my work. From Wordnik.com. [The SOURCE of MIRACLES] Reference
The firm courage, heroic devotion, and pure loyalty of an archangelic character have been corrupted into desperate temerity and re - bellious unyielding arrogance, a resolution indomitably malign. From Wordnik.com. [PROBLEM OF EVIL] Reference
And the Father who created the universe has given to his archangelic and most ancient Logos a pre-eminent gift, to stand on the confines of both, and separated that which had been created from the Creator. From Wordnik.com. [HANDS Across the Godhead?] Reference
Who else, save this archangelic intellect, shut out by a mighty shadow of eclipse from the bright hopes and warm affections of all sunny hearts, could have originated such a Pandemonian monster as the poem on "Darkness"?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference
Gibreel's exhalations, those ochre clouds of sulphur and brimstone, had always given him -- when taken together with his pronounced widow's peak and crowblack hair -- an air more saturnine than haloed, in spite of his archangelic name. From Wordnik.com. [The Satanic Verses]
Homesick for angelic and archangelic companionship. From Wordnik.com. [The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony] Reference
And youth can have something of that archangelic rigidity. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Johnstone's Son] Reference
The result is radiant, fiery even, but unconvincingly archangelic. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Wellesley] Reference
It would seem a simple angel food cake needs a little kicking up for an archangelic feast. From Wordnik.com. [Catholic Sensibility] Reference
Perhaps that steep of light is the dwelling-place of angels cherubic, seraphic, archangelic. From Wordnik.com. [New Tabernacle Sermons] Reference
This rather tickled the Master, who up till then had never considered archangelic possibilities in boxing. From Wordnik.com. [Jan A Dog and a Romance] Reference
Rather the hills seemed to turn about me like the enormous sails of a windmill, a vast wheel of monstrous archangelic wings. From Wordnik.com. [Tremendous Trifles] Reference
He fancied he was fighting his familiar foe, on a tall Cornish peak, in archangelic fashion; and he had vanquished his enemy, and was trampling on him furiously. From Wordnik.com. [Michael's Crag] Reference
It was only to his wife in his most confidential moments that he ever admitted the truth as to his archangelic character; to all others whom he met he was simply a distinguished. From Wordnik.com. [Michael's Crag] Reference
And yet runn'st toward him still; and hence also some may infer that this pitiful penny-whistle was blown by the same breath which in time gained power to fill that archangelic trumpet. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Shakespeare] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Strong Hearts] Reference
And it was a good thing to get him away, too, from St. Michael's Mount, and St. Michael's Crag, and St. Michael's Chair, and all the other reminders of his archangelic dignity in the Penzance neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [Michael's Crag] Reference
He ceased; and th 'archangelic Pow'r prepared For fwift defcent, with him the cohort bright Of watchful Cherubim; four faces each Had, like a double Janus, all their fhape Spangled with eyes, more numerous than thofe 130. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the English Poets] Reference
She's the angel, though her brother has got the archangelic name.). From Wordnik.com. [She's done it!] Reference
A mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not belie the obvious deduction. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick: or, the White Whale] Reference
From his once archangelic throne. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry] Reference
Bosomed amid the archangelic choir. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
That archangelic hierarch, the first. From Wordnik.com. [English Satires] Reference
Fairer than archangelic comradeship. From Wordnik.com. [The Watchman and Other Poems] Reference
The flaming joys of archangelic years. From Wordnik.com. [Microprosopos] Reference
Athwart the sound of archangelic songs. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4] Reference
An archangelic shape, whose phantom stride. From Wordnik.com. [Perpetual Light : a memorial] Reference
To archangelic lips applied. From Wordnik.com. [From On the Power of Sound] Reference
(Save archangelic Raffaelle, who had seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman's Advocate, Vol. I, No V.] Reference
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