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

Elfie's only answer was by a look somewhat like that he well remembered on shipboard he had thought was angel-like, a look of gentle sorrowful wistfulness, which she did not venture to put into words.

From Queechy, Volume I by Warner, Susan

If any evil comes to her through Black Jack, it comes from her angel-like goodness to me.

From Freckles by Stratton-Porter, Gene

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)