ministering angel
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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
“Oh, woman, in our hours of ease, Inconstant, shy, and hard to please; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel, thou.”
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 Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
There are certain of woman's rights which she strenuously yet modestly vindicated,—her right to quiet benevolent activity, her right to be a ministering angel.
From Memorial of Mrs. Lucy Gilpatrick Marsh delivered June 22, 1868. by Thompson, A. C.
