angel-like
Example Sentences
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Her tattoo skills have blossomed — she can draw life-like portraits on calves using a technique called stippling; a single tattoo of angel-like wings on a back can be made of millions of dots.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2019
"Bless ye for these very words!" exclaimed the trembling Munro; "I shall then receive my babes, spotless and angel-like, as I lost them!"
From The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by Cooper, James Fenimore
Not Angles but Angels," he said, "with faces so angel-like!
From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by Green, John Richard
There was something angel-like in his expression—the look of the frescoed angels of Melozzo da Forli in the Sacristy of St. Peter's.
From Whosoever Shall Offend by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
On the other hand, she who was lately An angel call'd, and angel-like ador'd, is shocked to find herself at once stripped of all her celestial attributes.
From Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies by More, Hannah
