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

And the sweet angel-like Hélène, who had willingly crossed the ocean and exiled herself from the life she loved to these uncongenial surroundings.

From A Little Girl in Old Quebec by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

On the other hand, ſhe who was lately An angel call'd, and angel-like ador'd, is ſhocked to find herſelf at once ſtripped of all her celeſtial attributes.

From Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies by More, Hannah

Full angel-like the birdis sang their hours1 Within their curtains green, within their bowers Apparelled with white and red, with bloomys sweet.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various

Not Angles, but angels," said the deacon, with a feeling of poetic sentiment, "for they have angel-like faces.

From Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles