among the angels

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“Paradise Lost” depicts a war among the angels, Satan being cast into hell and the temptation of Adam and Eve.

From Washington Times • Nov. 12, 2014

"They said he was only a poor owld innocent, but all is aqualized, an' thim that's despised sometimes have betther comp'ny among the angels than that of mortials."

From Irish Wonders by McAnally, D. R. (David Russell)

There is consolation in the knowledge that you have treasure there, and that while you live on earth, there are creatures among the angels, who owed their being to you.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3, 1836-1870 by Dickens, Mamie

If the accounts given by Frankish historians may be relied upon, Brunehaut's influence upon her grandson was not in all respects calculated to fit him for a life among the angels.

From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred

There is something to remember: cultivate sympathy, gentleness, forgiveness, purity, truth, love: and then, though you may have no other gifts, "until you're among the angels, you cannot be commonplace."

From Three Addresses to Girls at School by Wilson, J. M. (James Maurice)