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
That he had never thought a little ministering angel could be such a little brute!
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
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 Gould, Nat
She was as good as she was lovely, and was almost adored by the poor of the parish, to whom she was like a ministering angel.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
