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

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

I suppose Dicky's face was so angel-like, innocent-looking, like stowaways in books, that they had to believe him.

From New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune by Nesbit, E. (Edith)

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

The lovely lady who was long so dear To thee, now suddenly is from us gone, And, for this hope is sure, to heaven is flown, So mild and angel-like her life was here!

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas