"I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself."
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Jane Eyre
by
Charlotte Bronte
"If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women. They do not read them in a true light; they misapprehend them, both for good and evil. Their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend."
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Shirley
by
Charlotte Bronte
You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.
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Reginald
by
Saki
I charge thee, fling away ambition:
By that sin fell the angels.
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Henry VIII
by
William Shakespeare
The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
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Barnaby Rudge
by
Charles Dickens
It was the beginning of a day in June; the deep blue sky unsullied by a cloud, and teeming with brilliant light. The streets were, as yet, nearly free from passengers, the houses and shops were closed, and the healthy air of morning fell like breath from angels, on the sleeping town.
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The Old Curiosity Shop
by
Charles Dickens
From the east to the west sped the angels of the Dawn, from sea to sea, from mountain-top to mountain-top, scattering light with both their hands.
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She
by
H. Rider Haggard
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.
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Silas Marner
by
George Eliot
"I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoon of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!"
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A Christmas Carol
by
Charles Dickens
Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the whirlwind and the lightning. To the believer, clouds of angels and confessors, and martyrs, armies of the sainted and the saved, were ever stooping over their struggling brethren upon earth, raising, encouraging, and supporting them.
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The White Company
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle