They only felt the strain was for the moment remitted; they recked not that it was to come to-morrow for the final crush; and they enjoyed to-day with all the recklessness of long restraint.
Little had they reckedof either for many a dread hour past!
Now, when the same arguments were used to enforce the passage of the Conscription Act, the enemies that Mr. Davis had by this time gathered around him, little recked that in their wisdom, they were quoting him.
Little recked they, our bards of old, Of autumn's showers, or winter's cold.
Daring, head-strong, evildoer who recked not of his sin in shooting the gods that dwell in Olympus.
Hector fell headlong, and Achilles vaunted over him saying, "Hector, you deemed that you should come off scatheless when you were spoiling Patroclus, and recked not of myself who was not with him.
And they rode, in the morning sunlight, away from their native land, nor recked that never again would they return.
Thus have I for fifty years held sway over the Ring-Danes under the welkin and made safe by war many a tribe throughout the world with spears and swords, so that I recked not any man my foeman under the sweep of heaven.
And after but one night (no longer time was it) he did them more murder-bale, and reckednot a whit the feud and the crime.
The town clock--which so long as it was wound up regularly recked nothing of love or hate, joy or sorrow--solemnly tolled out the hour of midnight and sounded the knell of his lost love.
The grand triumphal sweep of nature's onward marchrecked nothing of life's little tragedies.
Was he so confident--so sure of her heart, that he recked not thus leaving her alone with me?
I cared but little about the disgrace; I recked not of the danger.
It left Ballamona a silent place, but the master recked little of that.
It was true that when he was there three hours ago it was in something like anger that they had parted, but Mona recked nothing of that.
With increasing pointedness, Mary Wing pressed the case for "exceptional people," Self-Developing People who reckednot of Homes and being Sisters and Daughters.
As for the cook downstairs, she had her orders, and recked not of Charm.
Little he recked of her; he was absorbed in observing how far Laura's conduct coincided with Charles's hints.
Eke Giselher and Dankwart, / never aught reckedthey How many a lusty fighter / saw 'neath their hand his latest day.
She reckednot how 'twere with him, / as she full softly lay.
If this last, I shall have done better for my charge than I recked of.
No more of this--a mere scratch: it gave more blood than I recked of from so slight a puncture, and saves the leech the trouble of the lancet.
He desired to win to the woman whom he loved, and to accomplish that he nothing recked that he should set Europe in a blaze, nothing recked what blood should be poured out, what treasure dissipated.
Lost their empire, wealth and fortune, little recked they for the fall, But Draupadi's pleading glances like a poniard smote them all!
And when he saw he might not come within the castle, he put off his bridle and his saddle, and put his horse to pasture, and set himself down at the gate like a man that was out of his wit that recked not of himself.
What Sir Bors said to Lionel he recked not, for the fiend had brought him in such a will that he should slay him.
That storm had consequences we little recked of," said Henry, thoughtfully fingering the letter in his hand.
The four lovers recked little of their destriers, but freeing their feet from the stirrups bent over the fallen foe, and called on him to yield.
But little he recked of country, so only he might keep his Love, since of all his riches she was the most dear.
How sore concerned was Cimon for this it needeth not to ask; himseemed the gods had vouchsafed him his desire but to make death the more grievous to him, whereof, without that, he had before recked little.
How little he recked of the feelings of those whose faith he assailed is seen in his remark that if fasting was instituted by St. Peter, it was probably to obtain a better market for his fish.
Men at this time in France recked little of papal authority, and the commissioners found themselves scorned.
A miserable shiver went through my heart, and turned my bright cheeks to a sad pale blue--so the other fellows said; though it recked me naught what manner of boy I might be, to look at.
All I cared for was, to be allowed to take my Laura, who had promised to give herself to me; and it recked me very little how the public might be governed, if my home might boast so sweet a Queen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
