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
There was no being in heaven among the angels, no human being on the earth, and no disembodied spirit, or demon, under the earth, who was able to unfold the future.
From A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Sylvester Bliss
"The child may well have the voice of an angel," scolded old Ursula; "he is like to be among the angels soon enough."
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 by Mary Mapes Dodge
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 James Fenimore Cooper
"The child may well have the voice of an angel," scolded old Ursula, "he is like to be among the angels soon enough!"
From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Elizabeth Rundle Charles
