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

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

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)

"Bless ye for these very words!" exclaimed the trembling Munro; "I shall then receive my babes, spotless and angel-like, as I lost them!"

From The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by Cooper, James Fenimore

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)