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
That he had never thought a little ministering angel could be such a little brute!
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
As I was passing through the hospital just now," says the general, feelingly, "I saw a tender, delicate woman acting the part of a ministering angel to a hero in a hard ague.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
Her chief function, in his opinion, was that of consoler and ministering angel.
From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred
