ministering angel
Example Sentences
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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
The secret of her appeal and depth is that she is a ministering angel who also ministers to herself.
From Time Magazine Archive
In our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made— When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various
Speriamo, as we used to say in the golden age, in the heavenly mansion, along with the ministering angel, long, long ago.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
Rita was regarded as a ministering angel when she went abroad, scattering good things around in the depth of winter, and all the poor blessed her name.
From Fast as the Wind A Novel by Nat Gould
