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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of reck.

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Examples

  • In brief, she was the one woman in the world for me, and little I recked the long arm of that gray old man in Rome could reach out half across Europe between my woman and me.

    Chapter 11 2010

  • It destroyed the old uns and recked not that, in so doing, it destroyed itself.

    A PIECE OF STEAK 2010

  • It destroyed the old uns and recked not that, in so doing, it destroyed itself.

    A PIECE OF STEAK 2010

  • May 5, 2008 at 3:46 am recked it up reely sumfin feerce

    you killed a man? I jus scratch sofa - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Ai still needz tew git a gnu kitteh-mobile tew replayce awl teh wuns teh kittehs hav recked.

    2 servings of fruit . . . - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • So she furnished the house and dressed it, hanging the curtains over the doors and burning aloes-wood and musk and ambergris and other essences till the whole place recked with the most delightful perfumes: after which the Adornment of Qualities donned her finest dress and decorations and sat talking with her maids, whom she had left behind when journeying, and related to them all that had befallen her first and last.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • It seemed to him as if he had gained some favour in the eyes of the chivalrous monarch, who till now had not seemed to distinguish him among the crowds of brave men whom his renown had assembled under his banner, and Sir Kenneth little recked that the display of royal regard consisted in placing him upon a post so perilous.

    The Talisman 2008

  • He was amazed at her as she lay in her beauty and loveliness, her symmetry and grace, and he recked no more of death.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • As soon as the Caliph was gone, and quite gone, my thoughts began to tempt and try me and, calling to mind my late delight, I recked little what might befal me from the Prince of

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Giselher and Dankwart, the twain, recked so little, that they brought full many a knight to his last day of life.

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

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