Recording Angel
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Robert Louis Stevenson, the householder some times kiddingly reminded his wife, said that to marry is to domesticate the Recording Angel.
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One is the Lesser Zadkiel, an assistant to the Recording Angel; the other is a daimon called Maimas, who steered Francis Cornish through his existence.
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Short of the unexpected appearance of a Recording Angel, there isn't much a memoirist can do to pull aside that two-ply veil.
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Ultimatum Every day a slim, grey agent of the Recording Angel scans all the newspapers which reach his Philadelphia office, meticulously snips out every item about every suicide.
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God saw the look that she turned on me as she spoke, and if there be indeed a Recording Angel that look is noted to her everlasting honour.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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