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

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

At the very time I was seeking to quarrel with Anna, she angel-like was incessant in my praise!—And such praises, Fairfax—!

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

But he looked freely at the angel-like face on the pillow without rebuke from the closed eyes.

From Dorian by Anderson, Nephi

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