wreckful
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of wreckful
Example Sentences
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A great library, therefore, does not merely transmit the memory of the past; it is daily providing memory for the future, safe preserved “against the wreckful siege of battering days.”
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore
“Fair as morning beam, although the fairest far, Giving to horror grace, to danger pride, Shine martial Faith, and Courtesy’s bright star, Through all the wreckful storms that cloud the brow of War.”
From Peggy Owen and Liberty by Madison, Lucy Foster
A summer mere with sudden wreckful gusts From a side-gorge.
From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
O how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays?
From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various
Would I were flint, to front the tempest's power, Wave-buffeted on some wild, wreckful shore!
From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Williams, Theodore C.
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