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
Rinbold, the proud young chieftain, looked sorrowfully at her angel-like face.
From Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland
Full angel-like the birdis sang their hours1 Within their curtains green, within their bowers Apparelled with white and red, with bloomys sweet.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various
I suppose Dicky's face was so angel-like, innocent-looking, like stowaways in books, that they had to believe him.
From New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune by E. (Edith) Nesbit
In the succeeding period, when the platonic philosophy was oddly mixed up with the institutions of chivalry, we were exalted into divinities;—"angels called, and angel-like adored."
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson