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

I'll have as many as I can, that are So good, and angel-like, as she I love; And will have yours.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John

I feared that my words were bitter, but all the more angel-like was it in Jacobi to hear me with calmness.

From The Home by Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)

Not Angles, but angels," said the deacon, with a feeling of poetic sentiment, "for they have angel-like faces.

From Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles