among the angels

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“Paradise Lost” depicts a war among the angels, Satan being cast into hell and the temptation of Adam and Eve.

From Washington Times • Nov. 12, 2014

He went home and told his mother he thought he had been among the angels.

From To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians by Moody, Dwight Lyman

It caused joy among the angels in heaven, over the reconciliation of one soul to God—over the desire of another soul to return to the path of duty.

From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society

"They said he was only a poor owld innocent, but all is aqualized, an' thim that's despised sometimes have betther comp'ny among the angels than that of mortials."

From Irish Wonders by McAnally, D. R. (David Russell)

He is represented in the person of an old man looking from the clouds, in the centre of the ceiling, and the King appears among the angels that surround him.

From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore