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

Full angel-like the birdis sang their hours1 Within their curtains green, within their bowers Apparelled with white and red, with bloomys sweet.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various

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

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

On the other hand, ſhe who was lately An angel call'd, and angel-like ador'd, is ſhocked to find herſelf at once ſtripped of all her celeſtial attributes.

From Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies by More, Hannah