angel-like

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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

Elfie's only answer was by a look somewhat like that he well remembered on shipboard he had thought was angel-like, a look of gentle sorrowful wistfulness, which she did not venture to put into words.

From Queechy, Volume I by Warner, Susan

"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

There was sister dear, and brother, Around the old home-hearth; And a tender, Christian mother, Too angel-like for earth.

From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Gordon, Hanford Lennox

Indeed, an earth really made perfect is hardly distinguishable from a posthumous heaven: so profoundly must everything in it be changed, and so angel-like must every one in it become.

From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by Santayana, George