Etymology
Origin of angelhood
Example Sentences
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And Niafer rose, a living girl just such as Manuel had remembered for more than a whole year: but with that kiss all memories of paradise and all the traits of angelhood departed from her.
From Figures of Earth by Cabell, James Branch
Who is there that with unwinking eyes may gaze into the effulgent brilliancy of the perfect angelhood?
From Shapes that Haunt the Dusk by Howells, William Dean
She has too long been assured of her angelhood, and denied her womanhood.
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert
If you would follow the law of transmutation and acquire the throne of angelhood, get busy within the laboratory of your own mind.
From Sex--The Unknown Quantity The Spiritual Function of Sex by McIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. (Alexander James)
It was very strange, but most eloquently significant of her own natural angelhood that, though born among brick and mortar in a sea-port, she still pined for unbaked earth and inland grass.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
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