ministering angel
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One Mrs. Austen now played ministering angel to Ben's despair, ar ranged for the anonymous publication of an other society novel, better than his abortive first.
From Time Magazine Archive
The secret of her appeal and depth is that she is a ministering angel who also ministers to herself.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had found her way like a ministering angel to the bedside of Alan's aunt, within three or four days of her arrival in England.
From Name and Fame A Novel by Adeline Sergeant
Her chief function, in his opinion, was that of consoler and ministering angel.
From Women of Early Christianity by Alfred Brittain
She disappeared completely from those literary and scientific reunions where she had so long been the most conspicuous figure, and was thenceforth known only as the ministering angel of the suffering and the abandoned.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by John Augustine Zahm
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