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  • She was clean as an archangel.  (source)
    archangel = angel of high rank
  • even a king must obey when an archangel gives the word  (source)
  • Like stars flung off the brows of archangels.†  (source)
    archangels = angels of high rank
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  • He laughed, and then began to hum that same, unfamiliar lullaby; the voice of an archangel, soft in my ear.†  (source)
    archangel = angel of high rank
  • The machinations of archangels are beyond me.†  (source)
    archangels = angels of high rank
  • These practical kabbalists used a so-called 'archangelic alphabet,' derived from firstcentury Greek and Aramaic theurgic alphabets, which resembled cuneiform.†  (source)
  • 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)
    Archangel = angel of high rank
  • This first paragraph is bracketed by the ideal and archangels—not a particularly human environment, is it?†  (source)
    archangels = angels of high rank
  • Those who noticed her stumbling and who bumped into the archangelic arm she kept raised at head level thought that she was having trouble with her body, but they still did not think she was blind.†  (source)
  • Like an archangel sent from heaven, a police officer came charging up the sidewalk.†  (source)
    archangel = angel of high rank
  • Then, when the archangels figured out he was seriously attempting to become human, they sent me down here to change his mind.†  (source)
    archangels = angels of high rank
  • 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)
  • He's Michael the Archangel and Moroni and Satan and Masked Entropy and the Frankenstein monster all rolled into one package," I said.†  (source)
    Archangel = angel of high rank
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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
  • 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)
  • 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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