madonna-like

A stone cross, a carved madonna-like figure imprisoned within its stem, seemed to draw the surrounding cottages to it like congregants facing a preacher.

All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994

A stone cross, a carved madonna-like figure imprisoned within its stem, seemed to draw the surrounding cottages to it like congregants facing a preacher.

All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994

A stone cross, a carved madonna-like figure imprisoned within its stem, seemed to draw the surrounding cottages to it like congregants facing a preacher.

All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994

My pure angel-natured Min, with her darling madonna-like face and honest, trustful grey eyes, to act like this?

She and I, Volume 1

A madonna-like face, a pair of honest, steadfast, speaking, grey eyes were ever before me; although I could not actually see her, except when we stood up during the service, according to the ordinances of the rubric, as she sat a long way off.

She and I, Volume 1

"Then you will be repaid a thousand times, Helen," said Madge, a smile resting upon the madonna-like face and throwing a halo around her.

Marguerite Verne Rebecca Agatha Armour

Marguerite looked at her companion, and her lips grew deadly pale, but her manner was calm, and not a shade was visible upon the madonna-like face.

Marguerite Verne Rebecca Agatha Armour

Arnold once more contemplated the fair brow and madonna-like eyes?

Marguerite Verne Rebecca Agatha Armour

Sometimes she smiled down into his eyes; sometimes she raised her sweet lips to his; and once she came to him with madonna-like holiness, a sleeping child in her arms, -- her child -- and his.

The Wall Between Sara Ware Bassett 1920

And did it ever occur to her, as the horses were changed in the little post-towns, that it was in honour of Holy Week that the savage-looking bearded men, the big, brawny, madonna-like women had got on their best clothes?

The Countess of Albany Vernon Lee 1895