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
The lovely lady who was long so dear To thee, now suddenly is from us gone, And, for this hope is sure, to heaven is flown, So mild and angel-like her life was here!
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
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
"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
Her tender affection for me has, perhaps, been excessive; but do I not owe to her love, to her angel-like character, the little good that belongs to mine?
From Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Bolton, Sarah K.
