Meanings
- not comparableIn the manner of a hawk.
[…] unthinking whether some grim fate were poised hawkwise above the level champaign of his life, or some dark storm of sorrow brewing on its calm horizon.
1892, Maxwell Gray, The Last Sentence, page 12
Origin
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