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

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

Till angel-like thou, loved one, near me flewest.

From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Hardenberg, Friedrich von

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)

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