He had the face of a well-fed cherub and the gentle, dreamy, and wistful eye of a girl in love.

"Shall he, little Trix?" The little girl, whose name was Beatrix, and whom her papa called by this diminutive, looked at Henry Esmond solemnly with a pair of large eyes, and then a smile shone over her face, which was as beautiful as that of a cherub, and she came up and put out a little hand to him.

Would she have the iron hand of the law intrude itself into the sacred precincts of the home, where little cherub faces gather round the hearth, under the glow of the glass-fringed hanging lamp.

In the bed against the wall at one end of the room lay Blaise and Denis, the twins, sturdy little fellows six years of age; while in the second bed against the opposite wall was Ambroise, now nearly four and quite a little cherub.

" "Oh, the cherub!"

Young though the boy was, he already had a finely-formed face, that suggested the beauty of a cherub.

from cherub-lips impart Thy balmy influence to my anguish'd heart; 325 Thou, whose soft voice calls forth the tender blooms, Whose pencil paints them, and whose breath perfumes; O chase the Fiend of Frost, with leaden mace Who seals in death-like sleep my hapless race; Melt his hard heart, release his iron hand, 330 And give my ivory petals to expand.

145 Each on his reed astride, the Cherub-train Watch her kind looks, and circle o'er the plain; Now with young wonder touch the siding snail, Admire his eye-tipp'd horns, and painted mail; Chase with quick step, and eager arms outspread, 150 The pausing Butterfly from mead to mead;

[Beneficent spirits] Angel N. angel, archangel; guardian angel; heavenly host, host of heaven, sons of God; seraph, seraphim; cherub, cherubim.

Ah, you little angel, you princess, you little cherub, you!

"Would you have a man turn cherub when he has escaped having his jugular slashed by a margin of two or three inches?

For answer Peggy pointed to the sky, a delicate blue dome flecked with tiny cloudlets like cherub's wings.

I may half impart To those that feel the strong paternal tie, How like a new existence in his heart That living flow'r uprose beneath his eye, Dear as she was, from cherub infancy, From hours when she would round his garden play, To time when as the ripening years went by, Her lovely mind could culture well repay, And more engaging grew from pleasing day to day.

A voice as of the cherub-choir Gales from blooming Eden bear, And distant warblings lessen on my ear, That lost in long futurity expire.

On yonder mead, that like a windless lake Shines in the glow of heaven, a cherub boy Is bounding, playful as a breeze new-born, Light as the beam that dances by his side.

I would not change thee for e'en a cherub in heaven," said Clement.

But when Hope cheers me with the sound Of Mercy's voice, of Mercy's plea, And tells me Mercy will be found Amongst the twelve to speak for me, Rapt Fancy hears the Cherub plead: ... Propitious is the Culprit's fate, If one, by tender mercy sway'd, Amongst the Jurors takes his seat.

Mercy smiles, and every face Reflects the Cherub's aspect meek; Glowing with her resistless grace, Mercy beams on every cheek.

She was rosy as a cherub, her bright hair tumbled beneath her crimson hair-band.

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In Hebrew words or names, in general, ch sounds like k; as in Chebar, Sirach, Enoch: but in Rachel, cherub, and cherubim, we have Anglicized the sound by uttering it as tch.

Such is that conceit which met with censure at the time: "Seraph and cherub, careless of their charge, And wanton, in full ease now live at large; Unguarded leave the passes of the sky, And all dissolved in hallelujahs lie.

The cheerful cherub.

death!" "Go with me to life and truth," cried the second form, the youth who was beautiful as a cherub.

A flame shone from his browa cherub's sword glittered in his hand.