angel-like

Example Sentences

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Her tattoo skills have blossomed — she can draw life-like portraits on calves using a technique called stippling; a single tattoo of angel-like wings on a back can be made of millions of dots.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2019

"Bless ye for these very words!" exclaimed the trembling Munro; "I shall then receive my babes, spotless and angel-like, as I lost them!"

From The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by Cooper, James Fenimore

The lovely lady who was long so dear To thee, now suddenly is from us gone, And, for this hope is sure, to heaven is flown, So mild and angel-like her life was here!

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

Till angel-like thou, loved one, near me flewest.

From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Hardenberg, Friedrich von

And the sweet angel-like Hélène, who had willingly crossed the ocean and exiled herself from the life she loved to these uncongenial surroundings.

From A Little Girl in Old Quebec by Douglas, Amanda Minnie