Etymology
Origin of angelhood
Example Sentences
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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 Herman Melville
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 Alexander J. (Alexander James) McIvor-Tyndall
Patient sufferers upon beds of pain have forgotten childhood years ago, and, feeding their souls on prayer, have looked forward with unutterable joy to the transition from womanhood to angelhood.
From Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays by Timothy Titcomb
Who is there that with unwinking eyes may gaze into the effulgent brilliancy of the perfect angelhood?
From Shapes that Haunt the Dusk by William Dean Howells
Turn thou from both That bright, impassive, passive angelhood, And spare to read us backward any more Of the spent hallelujahs!
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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