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
Thank God I'm a bachelor, and no ministering angel ever smoothes my pillow when I particularly want to be left alone.
From Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
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 James, Henry
“Oh, woman, in our hours of ease, Inconstant, shy, and hard to please; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel, thou.”
