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
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
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)
She was like a ministering angel among those who had taken refuge within the stockade.
From The White Squaw by Reid, Mayne
