good angel

Example Sentences

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I remembered the lines from Blake’s Songs of Experience, after the good angel flees: “I dried my tears, and armed my fears/ With ten thousand shields and spears.”

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2017

It wasn’t a good angel on his shoulder; it was a member of the police department speaking to him through a speaker in a city surveillance camera.

From Forbes • Aug. 11, 2014

“Everyone’s got a good angel and a bad angel,” she explained.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 5, 2013

Proof, if it were needed, that he is not the "good angel" to Don's bad.

From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2013

After that night I just stayed around the house like a good angel.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos