Isn't she just like a little angel?"

The cultus of the holy angels is of Jewish origin and existed in the Christian Church from the beginning.

The schoolmen taught that all knowledge might be obtained from the assistance of the fallen angels.

He had seen the seven mansions of the celestial regions, and the thrones of sapphires, and all the secrets of heaven were made known to him by his attendant angel.

If I be rid of this evil angel that haunts me, many rings, much Fleet, will Skink come unto.

Now the Sheriff did not yet know what a force Robin had about him in Sherwood, but thought that he might serve a warrant for his arrest as he could upon any other man that had broken the laws; therefore he offered fourscore golden angels to anyone who would serve this warrant.

But by her side was kneeling her better angel, that hid his face with wings; that wept and pleaded for her; that prayed when she could not; that fought with heaven by tears for her deliverance; which also, as he raised his immortal countenance from his wings, I saw, by the glory in his eye, that he had won at last.

"She couldn't help being a sweet ministering angel if she tried; and Beth is growing more and more like her.

My eyes rested a moment on the doctor, and then glanced off to seek some more agreeable object, and having found mamma, she seemed like a lovely angel in comparison with the ogre who, I felt convinced, only waited his opportunity to put an end to my life.

He descends slowly, like an avenging angel, enters the room, andgentle reader, imagine the rest.

The book opens with a hymn of praise, and then tells of the fall of Satan and his rebel angels from heaven, which is familiar to us in Milton's Paradise Lost.

ASWELL, EDWARD C. Look homeward angel.

When she left us in the twilight gloom, When she left her empty nest, And the aching hearts below; Full well, full well I know, What tender-eyed angel bent Down for my brown-eyed little bird, From the shining battlement.

" The mists had congregated about the distant mountain-side, and there were seen the grand and awful features of the Great Stone Face, awful but benignant, as if a mighty angel were sitting among the hills, and enrobing himself in a cloud-vesture of gold and purple.

" The "tulip tall," "the Naiad-like lily," "the jessamine faint," "the sweet tuberose," were all "ministering angels" to the "companionless Sensitive Plant," and each tried to be a source of joy to all the rest.

A pale angel and the string of pearls.

The days are past, the days are past, When we did meet, my love and I; And youthful joys are fading fast, Like radiant angels up the sky;

The vast portal opened, and from it marched a host such as man had never seen before, such as man shall never see but once again; the guardian angels of the city of David!

the herald angels sing Glory to the new-born King.

Now my little grandchildrenmy daughter Eva's been married ten yearsLady Lindley, you knowhers are perfect pets and heavenly angels, but I can't stand them for more than a few minutes at a time.

His greatest work is this large Uffizi altar-piecehe painted nothing but altar-piecesdepicting the Coronation of the Virgin: a great gay scene of splendour, containing pretty angels who must have been the delight of children in church.

The mule angel.

The wide awake angel.

good woman, perfect lady, Madonna. model, paragon &c (perfection) 650; good example; hero, heroine, demigod, seraph, angel; innocent &c 946; saint &c (piety) 987; benefactor &c 912; philanthropist &c 910; Aristides^; noble liver^, pattern.

Lost angel of a ruined paradise.