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

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 Gordon, Hanford Lennox

And now another of these angel-like visits was looming in the distance.

From The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

"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

I feared that my words were bitter, but all the more angel-like was it in Jacobi to hear me with calmness.

From The Home by Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)