seraph

• Her wish was to love intensely and to love holily, but as she fixed her love on a seraph, and not on God, she was doomed to abide on earth, “unchanged in heart and frame,” so long as the earth endureth; but at the great consummation both Nama and her seraph will be received into those courts of love, where “love never dieth.”--Moore, Loves of the Angels_, ii. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
• The mind, winged like a seraph, and armed like a thunderbolt, would have breached the very citadel of knowledge and robbed it of its treasures. —  Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales
• "He goes among the churches," said the lamented Professor B. B. Edwards, of the Andover Seminary, "burning like a seraph. —  History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II.
• Yet the town has an easy and contented look: as though it had saved enough from the wreck of its magnificent destiny to leave it still comfortably well to do Before we fairly had passed it, and while the farandole was dying out slowly, there crashed down upon us a thunderous outburst of song: as though an exceptionally large-lunged seraph were afloat immediately above us in the open regions of the air. —  The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals
• "She is like a seraph in her serenity, and I might just as well have been talking to a stone wall for all the effect my words seemed to have. —  The Opinions of a Philosopher

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