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

Let us lead a holy and angel-like life in the sight of God's holy angels.

From Elizabethan Demonology by Spalding, Thomas Alfred

"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

Man's weakness, waiting upon God, Its end can never miss; For men on earth no work can do More angel-like than this.

From Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn by Purves, George Tybout