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

Rinbold, the proud young chieftain, looked sorrowfully at her angel-like face.

From Legends of the Rhine by Ruland, Wilhelm

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

In the succeeding period, when the platonic philosophy was oddly mixed up with the institutions of chivalry, we were exalted into divinities;—"angels called, and angel-like adored."

From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

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