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
"Bless ye for these very words!" exclaimed the trembling Munro; "I shall then receive my babes spotless and angel-like, as I lost them!"
From The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by Cooper, James Fenimore
At the very time I was seeking to quarrel with Anna, she angel-like was incessant in my praise!—And such praises, Fairfax—!
From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas
And this angel-like creature to prove the sister—and not the sweetheart—of him whose cries had called me from my couch!
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Reid, Mayne
In the succeeding period, when the platonic philosophy was oddly mixed up with the institutions of chivalry, we were exalted into divinities;—"angels called, and angel-like adored."
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
