ministering angel
Example Sentences
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The secret of her appeal and depth is that she is a ministering angel who also ministers to herself.
From Time Magazine Archive
One Mrs. Austen now played ministering angel to Ben's despair, ar ranged for the anonymous publication of an other society novel, better than his abortive first.
From Time Magazine Archive
In any temporary indisposition or casualty, our mother was our ministering angel.
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)
She was like a ministering angel among those who had taken refuge within the stockade.
From The White Squaw by Reid, Mayne
Brute force had only produced a patient obedience; and it was not till a damaged crop had brought them to the edge of ruin that she consented to become his ministering angel.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 by Various
