ministering angel
Example Sentences
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The secret of her appeal and depth is that she is a ministering angel who also ministers to herself.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Speriamo, as we used to say in the golden age, in the heavenly mansion, along with the ministering angel, long, long ago.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
Time is humanity's best friend, and should be pictured as a ministering angel, instead of a skeleton with hour-glass and scythe.
From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd
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 R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell
