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Army Intelligence Center at Oberammergau, he has been pounding away at Communism with archangelic zeal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gabriel was duly archangelic in this regard; the other's only freedom a habit of calling a thing an 'ell of a thing, and on occasion an Elizabethan expressiveness, entirely inoffensive in his mouth.

From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

And youth can have something of that archangelic rigidity.

From Adam Johnstone's Son by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

He wore his smooth fair hair rather long too, in the archangelic manner, he— “Paid in advance,” Frau Heylmann said very sharply.

From Olive in Italy by Dalton, Moray

The first who taught us knowledge hath been hurled From his once archangelic throne Into some unknown world: And thou, Azaziel!

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley