The chivalry of Scotland had been aroused, and hundreds of men of high family were ready to exchange their prospects in their own country for the golden hopes held out by America, recking little of doubts and dangers.
Turning round half-apprehensive (recking not how time had fled) Of the lurking savage foeman from whose musket it was sped.
The Franks, recking little of their own loss, trampled forward over the slain, in hot pursuit of the fugitives.
He is his father's son, and the men of the house of Douglas, they come and they go, recking no will but their own.
Now this man waited at the threshold of an opening door, and like a child his fancy gathered door-step flowers, recking nothing of the widening space behind, the beckoning hands, the strange chambers into which shortly he must go.
But most men, little recking what a small portion of the original they were reading, satisfied themselves with the Anglo-French epitome and metaphrase.
How blest were we as 'neath one roof we dwelt ✿ Conjoined in joys nor recking aught of woe; Till Fortune shot us with the severance shaft; ✿ Ah who shall patient bear such parting throe?
Who is that fiery soldier, recking nothing save his duty, who seeth without a tremor that beloved brother lying mangled at his post, where the storms of hell do rage, and flames consume the dead?
My blood was in the humor for sport, the wine heated me somewhat, and recking not of consequences I caught at his idea.
I recking that he was the raal grit for a parson—always doin’ as he’d be done by, and practisin’ a darned sight more than he preached.
I recking the parson warn’t far out in his kalkilashing.
But most men, little recking what a small portion of the original they were reading, satisfied themselves with the Anglo French epitome and metaphrase.
How blest were we as 'death one roof we dwelt * Conjoined in joys nor recking aught of woe; Till Fortune shot us pith the severance shaft; * Ah who shall patient bear such parting throe?
But, recking nothing of this, Jason came on, singing in snatches and whistling by turns, until his firm tread echoed in the paved courtyard in the silence that was broken by nothing beside, except the wakening of the rooks in the elms.
Elsa drew near, hardly knowing where she was or what she was doing--little recking that he was to the full as excited as she.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
