angel-like
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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
At the very time I was seeking to quarrel with Anna, she angel-like was incessant in my praise!—And such praises, Fairfax—!
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
"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 James Fenimore Cooper
There was sister dear, and brother, Around the old home-hearth; And a tender, Christian mother, Too angel-like for earth.
From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Hanford Lennox Gordon
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 Hannah More
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