Sample Sentences for
archangel
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    She was clean as an archangel.  (source)
    archangel = angel of high rank
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    even a king must obey when an archangel gives the word  (source)
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    The archangel Gabriel and Jesus are raising the dead.†  (source)
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    Perhaps he really was an archangel after all.†  (source)
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    Like stars flung off the brows of archangels.†  (source)
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    These practical kabbalists used a so-called 'archangelic alphabet,' derived from firstcentury Greek and Aramaic theurgic alphabets, which resembled cuneiform.†  (source)
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    Later, Simon comes into possession of the sword of the Archangel Michael.†  (source)
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    The children are regular archangels, and I—well, I'm Jo, and never shall be anything else.†  (source)
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    Half drowned, borne utterly away by the anthem, she closed her eyes while the archangelic trio chanted its mysterious praise to the whirling earth: Dem kommenden Tage sagt es der Tag.†  (source)
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    "Careful with that, archangel," says the giant as he stalks toward Raffe.†  (source)
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    The damp grass along the edges of the paths was dotted with spikes of mauve bugle, and the sanicles and yellow archangels flowered thickly.†  (source)
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    She followed the difficulties of the procession with such attention that no one doubted that she was seeing it, especially because her raised hand of an archangelic messenger was moving with the swaying of the cart.†  (source)
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    We talked about Leper's stand at Stalingrad, Leper on the Burma Road, Leper's convoy to Archangel; we surmised that the crisis over the leadership of the Free French would be resolved by the appointment of neither de Gaulle nor Giraud but Lepellier; we knew, better than the newspapers, that it was not the Big Three but the Big Four who were running the war.†  (source)
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    I have no ambition to lose my life on the post-road between St. Petersburgh and Archangel.  (source)
    Archangel = city name
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    Well, these are useless complaints; I shall certainly find no friend on the wide ocean, nor even here in Archangel, among merchants and seamen.  (source)
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    Your affectionate brother, R. Walton Letter 2 To Mrs. Saville, England Archangel, 28th March, 17— How slowly the time passes here, encompassed as I am by frost and snow!  (source)
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This letter will reach England by a merchantman now on its homeward voyage from Archangel; more fortunate than I, who may not see my native land, perhaps, for many years.  (source)
Archangel = city name
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