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

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

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

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

It, angel-like, bears us up on soft, strong hands, lest we bruise ourselves on, or stumble over, the rough places on our roads.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Maclaren, Alexander