among the angels

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“Paradise Lost” depicts a war among the angels, Satan being cast into hell and the temptation of Adam and Eve.

From Washington Times • Nov. 12, 2014

There is something to remember: cultivate sympathy, gentleness, forgiveness, purity, truth, love: and then, though you may have no other gifts, "until you're among the angels, you cannot be commonplace."

From Three Addresses to Girls at School by Wilson, J. M. (James Maurice)

But the Magdalen is on the right, behind St. Monica; and on the same side, but lowest of all, Rachel, among the angels of her children, gathered now again to her forever.

From Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 by Ruskin, John

Even now, when the world becomes more real, I feel like one aroused very softly from dreaming among the angels.

From Mabel's Mistake by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

"The child may well have the voice of an angel," scolded old Ursula; "he is like to be among the angels soon enough."

From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 by Dodge, Mary Mapes