Wise Children by Angela Carter Oh how the mighty have fallen!
According to reports, they were mighty careful at every step, but just not careful enough.
It is a mighty tough slog, I will have to give them that, written in terse and exclusive science-ese.
The village sits along a narrowing vein of the Rio Negro, a tributary of the mighty Amazon.
The U.S. economy, the mighty machine that powers global commerce, stalled out and seems to be headed in reverse.
Then I heard a mighty voice, that seemed to proceed from within the Parthenon.
I tell you, it's a mighty good thing we got your brains to depend on.
It increases in strength and warmth, blowing with a mighty roar.
In this mighty enterprise, the cow shall be my great confederate.
It was a mighty voice lifted for right and against oppression.
Old English mihtig, earlier mæhtig, from miht (see might (n.)). Cf. Old Frisian mechtig, Old Saxon mahtig, Dutch machtig, German mächtig. As an adverb, it is attested from c.1300, though now considered colloquial.
