angel-like

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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

There was something angel-like in his expression—the look of the frescoed angels of Melozzo da Forli in the Sacristy of St. Peter's.

From Whosoever Shall Offend by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

I feared that my words were bitter, but all the more angel-like was it in Jacobi to hear me with calmness.

From The Home by Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)

Why dost thou use These arguments to bid me go, Yet chain me to thy tongue, while the angel-like Music of thy voice, ent'ring my thirsty ears, Charms up my fears to immobility?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

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