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
She disappeared completely from those literary and scientific reunions where she had so long been the most conspicuous figure, and was thenceforth known only as the ministering angel of the suffering and the abandoned.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by John Augustine Zahm
When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou.
From With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War by William Edward Sellers
But our lovely Madam Carroll, ministering angel that she is, pitying lady of the manor, has supplied everything that has been necessary.
From For the Major A Novelette by Constance Fenimore Woolson
