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  • noun Plural form of angel.

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  • Angels might be met by the way, under English elm or beech-tree; mere messengers seemed like angels, bound on celestial errands; a deep mysticity brooded over real meetings and partings; marriages were made in heaven; and deaths also, with hands of angels thereupon, to bear soul and body quietly asunder, each to its [195] appointed rest.

    Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays Walter Pater 1866

  • It is there holy angels, instead of being executioners of vengeance, become "ministering spirits to the heirs of salvation;" while every Lazarus begins to anticipate the period of "absence from the body," when "he shall be carried by _angels_ to Abraham's bosom," and be "ever present with the Lord."

    Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II Francis Augustus Cox 1818

  • 3 The term angels can also refer to messengers who are serving Jesus as apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers.

    Rich in Every Way DR. GENE GETZ 2004

  • 3 The term angels can also refer to messengers who are serving Jesus as apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers.

    Rich in Every Way DR. GENE GETZ 2004

  • And it was a time when the Source even separated us out of itself, first as androgynous cocreators—or what you call angels—then we became both female and male, first the female and then the male . . . hence why all old cultures revered the goddess . . .

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • And it was a time when the Source even separated us out of itself, first as androgynous cocreators—or what you call angels—then we became both female and male, first the female and then the male . . . hence why all old cultures revered the goddess . . .

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • These spirits, he [1123] saith, which we call angels and devils, are nought but souls of men departed, which either through love and pity of their friends yet living, help and assist them, or else persecute their enemies, whom they hated, as Dido threatened to persecute Aeneas:

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • On Sunday, amid masterpieces of early Romanticism, the songs' retro quirks were emphasized: a tremolo accompaniment to the word "angels" in "The Poet Declares His Renown" that was right out of "Aida"; the brassy Hollywood-style fantasy-Middle-East music that accompanies - with a wink, I think - the mysterious imagery of "The Birth of Light."

    NYT > Home Page By ZACHARY WOOLFE 2012

  • If the ministry of the angels is as a consuming fire to God's enemies, it is as a rejoicing light to his own children.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

  • The Hebrews made this monism permanent, although they left the spirit realm populated by the disenfranchised minor gods, which they called angels, etc.

    Planet Atheism 2008

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  • 'All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even exsistence.' -On Angels, by Czeslaw Milosz

    February 20, 2008