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

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

I'll have as many as I can, that are So good, and angel-like, as she I love; And will have yours.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John

"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," said the deacon, with a feeling of poetic sentiment, "for they have angel-like faces.

From Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles