| 单词 | angel |
| 例句 | So then he sends Gabriel down to kill the angels, and sooner or later he talks to Noah and sends the flood to kill off all the humans who had gotten too smart.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z She wanted us to look like something Anglo-Saxon, carved on a tomb; or Christmas card angels, regimented in our robes of purity. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy who had befriended her in the bookstore became her guardian angel. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Isn’t it better to be able to tell your father your troubles rather than an angel who is a light and a voice in your head? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They were dressed in white robes like a troop of angels. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s good to think about the angels like so,” she said. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Or the Ninety-first Psalm: “There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I’m pretty sure Mrs. Mendez thinks hers is a perfect angel. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z An angel wearing a white sweater, white leggings, and a “halo” made out of cardboard. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They couldn’t have been born these perfect angel parents with halos hovering over their heads and church outfits on. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They looked very much alike, with heavy dark-blond hair and epicene faces as clear, as cheerful and grave, as a couple of Flemish angels. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They glowed golden, shining, and he wrapped them into a ball as radiant as a fiery angel. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z It was as if my ether body had been conversing with angels, somewhere up near the ceiling. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “It’s because we were getting too smart. See, these fallen angels—” “Fallen angels?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z He called his officer his guardian angel, and eventually married her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The angels believed and the people agreed that there was a good amount of proper and deserved shame in history and some things were just never going to be things to be proud of. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The girl impatiently waved them up the steps, and hurried them past the stone angels with the lost faces. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Genie lay flat on his back, his arms spread out as if he was making a snow angel—a grass angel. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But tall, quiet Diana moved from loom to loom like the silent angel in the lion’s den, keeping Daniel from harm. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Hibiscus was Redemption’s trainer, a tall man with muscles like jerky, tough and lean, faster than a snakestrike, and most of all, one of the angels of Lucille. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Is this why she is knowing so much about angels? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z My suspicion hovers in the air above him, a dark angel warning me away. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Where the veil broke, you could see silvery islands of clouds on which tall angels might stand. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look at the stars. They are so beautiful and they are winking at us. I wish I was up there with them and the angels.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On my way out, I stop to visit with the angel and make my last wish. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z "Does the butterfly angel visit you often?" he demands, grabbing my ribs and tickling me. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Students are encouraged to consider social problems and responses to ‘practical’ dilemmas in a modern world through which angels and devils no longer dance. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Signora Grimani beamed at Victor as if he had just grown a pair of brilliantly white angel's wings. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Some low, sad thing that's meant to conjure angels out of the concrete. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The coffin was carried on a horse-drawn wagon to the cemetery, and all the way I communed with death’s angels, questioning their choice of time, place and person. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The angel had moved on to Lord Asriel’s side, and Mrs. Coulter found herself descending next to the African king. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Another time Grandma appeared to me as a guardian angel. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “I want to believe in angels. I think.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z And Tar licking Marcus’s face on the beach, and Billy burying his brother, and the theatre in London, and the painting of the angel on the ceiling, and the generations that followed . The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “Boy and girl. Aren’t they beauties?” said the proud papa, beaming upon the little red squirmers as if they were unfledged angels. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s the one who told me the angel comes to the seventh step in the first place and you’d think he’d know why I’m sitting there. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z After they left, I was thinking that one day maybe I’ll tell Gran that I never much bought into her theory that birds and such could be people’s guardian angels. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, for no reason Will could see, both angels looked up and in the same direction. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “We does think angels are white robes and harps and all kinds of pretty things, but chile!” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z "Go on with you, boy. Go, and bring back your star, and may God and all His angels go with you." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z They kept their arms close to their bodies, like angels hiding their wings. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I am thinking angels should not be having headaches, but I am having one, very pounding one. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Some thought it was full of either trumpet- blowing angels or angry devils. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Trust me, the angels I know would have told me if they were Satan.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Miss Love was sitting on the blanket chest that Granny’s angels had come out of. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Thankfully, in spite of my Lazarus Door marks and heterochromatic eyes, as far as I know there was never an angel named Finn in any religion. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z And then Colin felt angels lifting him by the armpits, pulling him toward their home in the sky, and he felt light and free. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Guess you've gone to bed and left one of your lesser angels at the duty station. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The screen responded as quickly as thought itself, and out of the welter of lines and flashes a series of pictures formed with perfect clarity: compasses, alpha and omega again, lightning, angel. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Most people would be okay with that; I mean, those famished angels being sent from God and all. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z When they’re leaving Malachy wants to show them where the angel left Michael on the seventh step but Dad tells him, Not now, not now. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I thank God that he sent an angel to give me that chance to change. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Behind her I see our snow angels, a perfect five feet apart. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Mary died and woke up, and the angels carried her up there in swirling clouds. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shut up! The angel of death’s in the house!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In the end, we were three devils and an angel. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The elegant soldier leapt from his peak into the sky and found himself a pretty angel to swing with. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Seems like it would have taken the same angel who announced to Mary that she was pregnant with God and got her to be glad about it. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I pressed her against Mr. Royal Garnet Lacey’s angel and wrapped my arms tight around her waist. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Did you know she believes in angels and dreams?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “She says that you have seen an angel.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not going to say we were angels,” she says. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Uncle Etienne says heaven is like a blanket babies cling to. He says people have flown airplanes ten kilometers above the earth and found no kingdoms there. No gates, no angels.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “It’s for your own good, my little angel!” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Names and dates, curtains and earrings, ships and theatres and angels rushed by as if they were caught in a tidal wave. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The flea market was good for records and autographs, but none of the angels mustered an appropriate howdy. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They looked like the rich, flowing robes of Renaissance angels, both heavy yet lighter than air. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z If ever a man needed angels, it was that man. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Mary is told by the angel that she is about to become pregnant. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In 1896 she published a biography of Root that would have made an angel blush. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was like I could feel time slowing down...feel it stopping...going backwards...back to third grade angels...second grade cats...first grade babies...little yellow tugboats bobbing in the water...bobbing...bobbing... Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess I had been looking toward the Encouragement above the TV, a drawing of an angel with the caption Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z She and Angelina hover over me like angels wreathed in human joy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z More than half a century has passed, but I can still remember the exact moment when Rosa the Beautiful entered my life like a distracted angel who stole my soul as she went by. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The golden haze illuminated the edges of the willows and a decapitated angel statue. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “Are you one of the angels who rebelled so long ago?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “That’s the first thing angels does say, you know? Do not be afraid.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The story went on to say that only an angel could plant the seeds of a red fern, and that they never died; where one grew, that spot was sacred. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She whispered, “And don’t forget, you’ll always be an angel to me.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She's got a garland on her head and graceful angel wings. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Ash, we need you to place the angel.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z How can the angels let my good brother work hard hard cleaning toilets, and for so little? Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z As if in a waking dream, I hear the voices of angels. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Don’t tell me Dad’s going to be okay with a Christmas tree. And angel ornaments.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “You’re the one who is a lie, who’s been a lie, hiding here for who knows how long. A false angel. A traitor.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He screamed when he saw Hank and Chuck and ran off yelling something about metal angels from Mars. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Dad wasn’t the kind who believed in angels flying around. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z I thought he would look like an angel floating in the sky. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In my father’s science fiction book, the one that caused such a tremendous stir, all the aliens who’d come here through Lazarus Doors took the names of angels from the Bible and from the Koran. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z They seemed the embodiment of the kind of young thug feared by nearly all urban-dwellers, and the mysterious gunman who shot them down seemed like an avenging angel. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was as polite as an angel all the way through the roast and potatoes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “Well, it’s all about being in fourth grade now. You know, a rat? Third grade angels, fourth grade rats? So I’m not an angel anymore.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve seen clouds make pointed angel wings that stream past the sunset, but they shred into clouds. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother was quiet at last, dabbing her nose with Kleenex while the minister talked: “I can just see her now, wowing the angels with her Chinese cooking and gung-ho attitude.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “She asking if those angels are monsters, if Lucille angels are good.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Mrs. Smeath in metamorphosis, from frame to frame, naked, exposed and desecrated, along with the maroon velvet chesterfield, the sacred rubber plant, the angels of God. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The angel watched with a kind of weary patience. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Maybe it was the angel necklace I found at the bottom of my jewelry box, the one Dad got for both of us that time our whole family got the “Flu of Doom.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z In one hand the angel held a sword and in the other, a lantern. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It seemed like that would make me a prince or a real strong angel or something but it didn’t work that way, I was just another fourth-grade punk. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Claudia was lost in remembrance of the beautiful angel she had seen. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Jam wondered—if real angels looked like this, then what did that mean for the angels in Lucille? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Maybe I was supposed to be a different kind of angel, one of those that swoop down from above when peoples die and then lead them up to heaven. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z It must be that I did not get the right training for the angels that work with peoples. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z I scrolled down until I saw it—the most precious little angel baby face I’d ever seen in my entire life.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Thunder cracked and the angel fell out of the sky. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z On the side table are little black angels. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z “Oh,” I say, “that is a nice thing, that angel on the incubator.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z “My mother gave me those angels. My mother!” she screamed at him. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z White clouds passed above him like angel caravans, perhaps carrying the complaints of others. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z “No saint, no angel. Corpus bones, I but delivered a child. Your wife never had a stomach worm.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “But the angels must have figured out how to find the ones that weren’t so obvious.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The gilded Statue of the Republic rose before me, set alight by the setting sun until it glowed as brightly as the angel Dumah’s flaming sword. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Good miss, be you an angel or a saint?” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “God and his angels are here, working right alongside us. They won’t let you be hurt.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “The angels, they had to do things underhand, dark things.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “One, he eats bologna for breakfast. Two, he sleeps on a pillow. And three, he is loved by an angel.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z She worries Mikey might have the fit and die and go to hell if he has any class of a sin on his soul though everyone knows he’s an angel out of heaven. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Many of the attendants seem surprised by her presence but they take their cues from Lainie, who is delighted at the sight of the living angel standing over her sister’s grave. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z If there was some providence or cosmic will, some scheme of energies or even some god or angel answering his prayers tonight, then they had to grant this part, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And a moment later the angel would have sprung into the air, but Will dropped his torch and leapt forward. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And Gran would’ve told me that maybe I was there as an angel before I chose to become Mom and Dad’s kid. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z An angel had put a curse on her: “Dance in your red shoes till your skin shrivels up and you are a skeleton!” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The angels were still standing watch up on the wall. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “Why, so the angels can jam, of course. They knew they were headed that way too, and who doesn’t like a good party?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at the dirty ginseng specimen O’Dell handed me, thinking of God and whatever angels He had assigned to the BCMA. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In a corner near the entrance stood the statue of an angel. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Stone angels leaned down from the balustrade—the salty air had eaten away their features and they were now as fuzzy as the coat of arms above the door. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I dreamed the stone angel looked down on me and said, “I am nobody.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z In his biography, it said that to this day, in Colombia, people come from far and wide to whisper their wishes into the cold stone ears of a Guillermo Garcia angel. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z By that time Cohn, who had been regarded purely as an angel, and whose name had appeared on the editorial page merely as a member of the advisory board, had become the sole editor. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The big shock, though, was all the pictures of Mary being presented with a lily by the angel Gabriel. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z This land had been won for them by angels. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z So here’s where I had to go and ruin that image of me as an angel. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The voices of the angels blew in through a vent above my head and echoed in the room around me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z This time when I walked into Gardner’s Pharmacy, the ringing bell on the door sounded like a choir of angels singing “Hallelujah.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Frau Elena’s midnight passage among the beds like an angel, murmuring, I know it’s cold. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Gripping his wand more tightly, he dashed out from behind the angel — “Impedimenta!” he bellowed, pointing his wand wildly over his shoulder at the Death Eaters running at him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It is a small white statue of an angel with broken arms. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z But the trees don’t make a canopy; rather, the sky is open and sun shines like God’s or an angel’s light. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She was lying on her back with her mouth slightly open, snoring at the plaster angel on the ceiling above her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Then this man—or should I say angel—simply walks away. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He read about the fall of the angels, God speaking to Noah, the Great Flood. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “Who was that?” said Will, trembling, facing the two angels. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It was like thinking of bloodroot and witches, or of mushrooms called “destroying angels” and “death cups.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z And there was my angel, my Marlena, smiling up at me, tired, radiant, with a blanketed bundle nestled in the crook of her arm. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Estraven meanwhile engaged in his customary fierce and silent struggle with sleep, as if he wrestled with an angel. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z But they were trained warriors, and a moment later their dæmons leapt at the angel, savage teeth flashing white in the gloom—and Balthamos flinched: he cried out in fear and shame, and shrank back. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Never mind, you’ve got the tarlaton for the big party, and you always look like an angel in white,” said Amy, brooding over the little store of finery in which her soul delighted. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “But why should he be human? Are angels supposed to be human?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Quasimodo has nine sisters and it is said his mother never wanted him but that was what the angel brought her and it’s a sin to question what’s sent. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z On the walls were cheap religious pictures depicting the Devil being slain by the angel Michael. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Initiates were required to swear an oath upon an emerald said to have been pried from the brow of a fallen angel, and when presented with this artifact, Thyon laughed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The deep part of him that could feel the energies followed them where they led, and it wasn’t only the angel that was altered. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I remembered the story about how a bunch of angels came down and rolled away the rock that was in front of Jesus’s grave to let him go to heaven. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But all of that—city and angel and calamity—seemed worlds away right now. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Amaranta Úrsula returned with the angels of December, driven on a sailor's breeze, leading her husband by a silk rope tied around his neck. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Yeah, you took quite the hit when we crashed.You’re lucky to be alive. Lucky to have a guardian angel like me to save your hide.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “Man, it feels good to stand up!’’ the first angel said. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The only thing about its smile that looked like Joey to me was that die angel had a great big dimple too. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z An angel is supposed to be a happy being, no? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z The days stand like angels in blue and gold, incomprehensible, above the ring of annihilation. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Already he knew enough to tell if Michelangelo had sculptured the little angel. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s just that in churches, you know, sometimes the angels are women in long dresses, and sometimes they are babies, and—” “Oh. Churches. I do not know about all those angels.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z “Settling ’cross the fields, hovering on angel wings and brandishing a blazing shield...” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Reduced to the size of a wandering but completely lucid angel, she was in full possession of her indomitable spiritual energy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She leaned forward, resting against the slope of the angel’s hand to peer over the edge and follow the line of Sparrow’s finger down to the rooftops. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The spike is the funky 1960s green thing we put on top of the tree instead of an angel or a star. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “Hope you don’t mind me saying, but you look like an angel sitting there.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z God, angels, and extraterrestrials have yet to come to our assistance; yet more and more phenomena have proved explicable by the dim reason of human beings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was the face of a blond angel, of a fifteen- year-old boy. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They can barge in and move angels out? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z But he gave me a lopsided grin and cleaned up like an angel, so I rolled my eyes and said, “Good job.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Albert said something else, but the words were lost to Joseph as a ghostly voice called to him from the attic, and the angel reappeared with outspread wings above an ocean made of fire. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I thought about rats and real men and Number One and angels and fame and first and last and love and nature’s way. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Funny angels in hoods and mittens,” said Jo, and set them to laughing. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I watch as she makes a snow angel, laughing as her arms and legs move back and forth, back and forth. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The angel is saying, ‘Nothing is impossible for the word of God.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Charles was beginning to think that people were more closely related to orangutans than to angels, if angels existed at all. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When my mom describes it all, she skips over the interrogation and the panic and says it was a time of three miracles—three things that couldn’t have happened without the intervention of angels. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The flush suddenly deepened; he was thinking of Lenina, of an angel in bottle-green viscose, lustrous with youth and skin food, plump, benevolently smiling. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I did, and the first thing, I saw a little baby angel. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I went down and down, until the wing tips of the angels brushed my eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z For a moment Clara ceased to be a distracted angel and came to stand beside a simple mortal who suffered, at fourteen, the first torments of love. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But I’m sure a girl angel would answer questions, too. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m glad you didn’t hurt Mrs. Davidson’s feelings. Keep the angel around, you might get to like it. Where do you want me to put it?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “What is it?” said Will as the angel appeared trembling beside him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The new grove was glistening like an angel on a Christmas tree, lit from within by the light of a diesel generator. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z So he taught the angel how to feel for the edges of the window, just as Giacomo Paradisi had shown him, sensing them at his fingers’ ends and pinching them together. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Or, as the pastor read off the program, “before God called his angel back home.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It glittered in the lantern light, and he held it out to the two shapes that stood beside him, the shapes who called themselves angels. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Michelangelo was once asked how he’d created one of his statues. He said, ‘I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.’ Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The angels were waiting in the hall when I opened the door. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “I’m not driving faster than our angels can fly.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She was an angel, a treasure, and was now, incredibly, Antain’s wife—and had been since a month after she left the Tower. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Jason first saw the angel at the ice cream cart. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The angel emblazoned on the front is only a confirmation of what she already suspects. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He only knew his mother believed him or wanted to believe him when she thought he was her angel. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z When I pass the stone angel, I reach out my hand and touch hers. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z There were horses rearing up and angels in flight in a summer-blue sky. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z They both needed her in an odd sort of way—their nettlesome guardian angel. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “What? What? No! I am not a dead people. I am an angel! A people is a people and an angel is an angel!” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z And so it was that the golden godson swore his oath on a blacksmith’s anvil instead of the angel’s emerald. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She insisted the people who buried her should leave lots of space in her grave so she could sit up to talk to the angels. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I thank and rethank the beautiful stone angel inside who granted my wish. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z An army of soot-stained angels glared down at us from marble reliefs. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But surrounding the two children were a dozen or more angels, gazing down at them. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did she feel, like, light, like an angel? Did she tell you anything?” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z That day, Jeremie, I am so happy I drag cane like angel, like superman, I am fast; I am magic; I have wings to work. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Wool Pooh pulled me closer I could see that it was a little angel, and wait a minute, it was Joetta, looking just like the angel Mrs. Davidson had given her! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Three prisoners in chains—and, among them, the little pipe, the sad eyed angel. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “So he was a man,” he went on, “and then...Do people become angels when they die? Is that what happens?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There, her back will never be tired, and she’ll fly with the angels and not say once, Slow down. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z At first Will thought he was warning Balthamos, but then with a little shock of embarrassment he realized that the bear was agreeing with the angel. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She was stunning, with the face of an angel and a body that could not only stop traffic but make it back up a little. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “Yes, Lance; tell us how you got on, and leave out about the angels.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a button nose and a hard little set-back chin, a gripping jaw set on its course even though the angels of God argued against it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When I mentioned it, he said it was special—angel hair. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Ruta Skadi said, “The Pole, sir. You said these angels were making for the Pole. Why would they do that, do you know? Is that where heaven lies?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I ask Mam if the angel just brings the babies and then forgets about them. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I could ask the angel all kinds of questions and I’m sure he’d answer, unless it’s a girl angel. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Her long hair hung loose, shimmering like Christmastime fiber glass angel hair. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It is said, in the Book of Enoch, that two hundred angels led by Azazel, the keeper of God’s throne, came to Earth after falling in love with the human women they had watched. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Bonnie wasn't much of a shopper, but after a pronounced bout of whining, she decided she wouldn't mind adding to her lifelong angel collection. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z When her mother woke her, angry that she had dozed off, Victoria claimed that angels had come and put her in a sleeping trance, then fanned the baby to cool the fever. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Who the old angels were, if they weren’t human? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z None of her faith was left to her now, but she knew about angels. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z An angel in the mist with eyes like beams of light. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Tiller told Lucy that all the Popsicles had disappeared in the night, but in their place, an angel had brought Lucy Soup, only for Lucy, not for Buddy or Tiller or Sairy. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Instead, she taught them to make angels by lying on their backs and waving their arms and legs. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Who knows? They don’t talk about him. Now let me show you the other one. See that big carved marble angel over yonder?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z As soon as the angel spoke, she fixed her attention on three jagged peaks below her and memorized their configuration exactly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Get everybody to sing out on Don't you hear the bells now ringing, Don't you hear the angels singing? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z There was a gold angel charm hanging around her neck and gold crosses hanging from her ears. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z If she does that again, he thought, I’ll rush and knock her over, and he turned to whisper that to Balthamos; but the angel was nowhere near. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Here is the lawn where Cordelia fell down backward, making a snow angel. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I knew it wasn’t a good sign when you started seeing angels so I kicked and flapped my arms and started going toward the sky! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But once it rested in his hand, he was forced to fight an angel to keep it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The great repair and the trap wars and the angel in the mist, none of it would have happened without the leaky boat. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Jam sighed and freed her hands from her mother’s so she could say the words, lifted from an old Gwendolyn Brooks poem, words the angels had used when they gave Lucille back to itself. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The paneling that surrounds me is carved with figures of angels and the apostles. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Joseph imagined Leo, perhaps a century ago, looking up at this same angel and drawing it on a small scrap of paper. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I walk farther away from everyone and decide to make sand angels to see if that will calm me down. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “A ministering angel,” said Bono, and pressed her free hand to his lips. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She was proud when people stopped her on the street and said, ‘Is that little angel your sister?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Is the angel flying through the wall of the Annunciation of St Anne intended to be an accurate representation of what Mary saw? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Is an angel not always a hunter, is a hunter not always an angel? it replied. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Dreams of angels skipping over his head and occasionally resting their pink heels on his nose. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Once again the angel had to stop and recover. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I guess when even ole witch ladies call her purty and say she look like a angel, Biddy got something to smile about, fat or not. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He stared at the metal angel and focused his mind, as though by doing so he could give her strength. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z My favorite is the Book of Revelation, which is about the end of the world, with demons and angels having these big wars. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z And we couldn’t eat merry-go-round horses and stone angels. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I passed our homeless friend from the Embarcadero, who was still trying to warn the other guys about the metal angels from Mars. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z They will soon fly with angel wings and He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, nor will mourning or strife or pain. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The grandmother clucks at her granddaughter, then confides to the young man, "She's going to look just like an angel, pink and blond." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z May always said we were angels before we were ever people. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z This was not the language of angels, but the curse of demons. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z My angel costume is done and all that needs finishing is my evening gown. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z They didn’t look like angel wings at all. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Even if they were society’s pariahs, they were going to be angels in a marble white heaven and sit on the right hand of Jesus, the Son of God. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe I could wait by the bed of a dying person and then when a transport angel comes, I could follow the angel and the dead person up to heaven. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z I will tell him that his father has come, that an angel brought him back from Heaven for a while. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Then running her hand over the carved angel, she said, “I shore wisht I could get one a-them angels for Pa.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The Christian churches could not abandon their belief in miracles and angels, but Christians could certainly retreat from their insistence on the reality of witchcraft, demonic possession, poltergeists, levitation and second sight. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Is she a real angel and I am not? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z “What is that...” said the angel fastidiously, indicating the Kendal Mint Cake. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He hurled himself so hard at the faint form of the angel, and he expected so much more resistance than he met, that he couldn’t keep his balance. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She looks like an angel or a goddess out of some kind of mythology story. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “You were hardly the angel. Your place was crawling with all those skinny girls. You didn’t want strings, remember?” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “I thought you knew a lot about angels. I am not a boy or a girl. I am angel. Angel. Angel!” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z He made it out to read, in cursive and black ink: The angels taught the humans too much. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z But then I realize that the angel has not yet come to ask the questions a Muslim hears after death: Who is your God? Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z An angel does not need a bed, but sometimes I think the bed needs an angel. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z If angels guided her safe through the woods and she made the north edge, she’d have to get past the guards watching over King’s Bridge, where New York Island touched the rest of America. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a short, square-built, cotton-headed individual with the face of an angel and the cunning of a stoat. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Both of them always dropping their rattles or rubber pacifiers and tangling themselves in blankets, why so tortured, little angels? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “No, Willie, all I seed was that fat little white baby angel. But wasn’t no mistaking that voice ... ‘I want some children.’ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I used to be an angel, you know. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z These I hope—and the angels—will get me to Toño. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Like a tiny angel, a little cherub, sleeping after the wind had blown a lullaby into her little ears. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z She is a people and I am an angel! The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Even the air in the alleyways tasted of snow, and only the wings of the carved angels and dragons high up on the rooftops felt any real warmth from the pale sun. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I knowed it would be kinda like pretending you were a angel. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z It is so unexpected, then, when the angel comes to my bed that night. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was the angels who took apart the prisons and the police; who held councils prosecuting the former officers who’d shot children and murdered people, sentencing them to restitution and rehabilitation. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He was both, angel and devil, like the rest of us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So little angel Jeffy can be safe from my evil cooking schemes? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I picked up her photo off my desk and was struck by how sweet Caitlin looked, like an angel. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He had told Alma the day before she left that had God not killed the Grigori angels so many years ago, their baby would have lived. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “No sir, I ain’t never seen nothing so clear as that little angel baby.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z You lie back in the snow like an angel made by children and go to sleep. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Walton helps me get dressed in my angel costume and has me review my vocal techniques. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z His voice would drop down three, four, five notes, and he’d hold the Good Book level, and you’d think he had the angels at his command. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z But the aliens looked exactly like angels—so beautiful, and completely naked with gleaming silvery-white wings. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Saints and angels could not have behaved any better. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And Enoch, who did not die but was taken away by God and made into the angel Metatron, kept God’s throne, invented the art of writing, and communicated God’s word to those on Earth. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z As we went shopping for bulk foods or kicked sand at the beach, we were always thinking about the invisible viewers who hovered around us like a band of watchful angels. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As stunned as I was by the angels, I was more concerned with the skeletons. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Great brown angels with halos of hibiscus blossoms descended from heaven, pulled down by their enormous gourd breasts and ripe honeydew bottoms. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Ube smiled at her when she walked in, and Jam took an index card from his counter, writing her question about angels down on it. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Poppy said, “She thinks your friend is—the angel—of her friend, who was killed in the ’67 war. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z That room was silent with the fury of avenging angels sharpening their radiance before they strike. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I do not suppose you will have heard of our bitter & cruel loss Thank God, she suffered hardly at all, and expired as tranquilly as a little angel.... Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But Will could see what it was, this enemy: another angel, much bigger and stronger than they were, and Baruch’s hand was clamped over his mouth. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Every time he calls me love, an angel gets its wings.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The light blue Caribbean sky was alive with angels of all colors and sizes; they fluttered merrily toward some unseen source of brilliant light. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z A medical orderly had been summoned, but it was clear that there was little hope for the angel: he was wounded sorely, his wings torn and his eyes dimmed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But here in my moment of comeuppance, she arrived at my shoulder almost like an angel. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Lord Asriel and the angel were close in discussion with the engineers, and men were clambering down from the craft itself, one carrying a clipboard, another a length of cable. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The angels launched new investigations, new policies and programs meant to fix the blind spots they’d created by claiming that the monsters were gone. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Tell me about Metatron, and what this secret is. Why did that angel call him Regent? And what is the Authority? Is he God?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I suddenly picture him alone and frightened, and for the first time in my life, I hope that Gran is right about the angels. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked like those paintings of baby angels— what do you call them, hubbubs? The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The angel that brought Margaret and the twins comes again and brings us another brother, Michael. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I am never seeing other angels, not even when I float north and visit the goats. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Part of me suspects she thought it was one of her angels. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z You don’t see that many angels in real life, though. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “But it’s mine now. Just to run, of course. I employ the butchers. Three of them. No dirty hands here, angel. What’s your address?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z A billboard plastered with Arletta Paisley’s face smiled down like a Texan angel sent from above just for me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z My angel is leaving, so if I can get this to you, I will. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Their wings were like angels’ wings, except the eagles’ wings were fully unfurled, flying. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “If there were angels, then bad things wouldn’t hap- pen. “Maybe angels aren’t always meant to stop bad things.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z After mopping its brow with a filthy handkerchief, the angel lit a cigarette by clicking together two nails on its left paw, inhaled deeply, and immediately had a long drawn-out coughing jag. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps there are infinite angels; perhaps I see two angels in their consecutive moments. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On the left side of the case on yellowing paper was a tiny pencil sketch of a beautiful angel, his wings outstretched. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z She peered up, squinting at the underside of the vast metal wings, and the soles of the great angel’s feet, and the sky she could see around the edges. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Like an angel of the annunciation, Mother Ermentrude spreads her arms and folds her hands over my head. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I fixed my eyes on Lightfoot as if she was one of Granny’s angels come to fetch me, and put my arms tight around T.R. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Now, we must examine the possibility that it was an angel. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe Zola is an angel and I am a people. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z As I lie on the hard wood and dirty straw of my bunk, I think about the night the angel came to me, giving me my new voice. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z That night the angels came back for her, like she’d asked them to. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It definitely didn’t sound like a cute baby angel’s. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He ground out his cigarette on the foot of the stone angel. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “Okay, fine,” Redemption continued, “but monsters must’ve looked like something at some point. The angels had to identify them, right?” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The whole of the apse had been taken over by a monumental furnace, and a brick chimney cut right up through the center of the frescoed dome, obliterating the heads of angels. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Mommy, have I missed the angels again?” he whispers softly while reaching for my neck. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The angel never forgets the babies and comes back to make sure the baby is happy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Mrs. Davidson had bought Joey a little angel that was kind of chubby and had big wings and a halo made out of straw. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t understand this because I’m sure angels would never leave a sick baby on the seventh step.There’s no use asking Dad or Mam about this. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It has an angel and some stupid prayer about heaven. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Maybe I’ve landed in New York as an angel of reason. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “I saw you communing with the angel as well as your grandmother.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Cordelia’s Christmas tree is not like others: it’s covered in gauzy angel hair, and all the lights and decorations on it are blue. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A statue of an angel; her arms were folded, and she was looking holy. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The image of an angel is emblazoned on it, the word Temperance is lettered beneath. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “That’s grown-up dead. This little baby couldn’t even walk yet. He’s going to be an angel. But only if someone closes his eyes.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He laughs and my mother laughs and I think, Isn’t it curious the way big people laugh over the angel who brought them a new child. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He said I sang like one of God’s own angels. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t take a pretty for them angels!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I thought of the three angels, singing their songs in a hot kitchen on a cold city morning. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The bronze angels stepped in front of us and folded their wings like shields. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z He hoped she’d call him “angel”—not that he wanted to be called that all the time. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Then she stood and walked back, making her face look just like that of an angel, which got my heart beating fast with fear. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z She thought about Edgar the drowning dummy and gigantic seabirds with wings like angels. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z His whine opened my ears, and I heard the angels still singing. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “No, no,” she said, “don’t grab your skirt like some clodhopper. Think of making wings, like an angel. Like this. Now sink. Slowly! Don’t plummet, child—you’re not a rock.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z When it woke and made its croaky sound, the transport angel would come. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z I would try to help out, jumping down from my perch and coming to their aid like some guardian angel. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Then Grandma fell backward, arms spread out. At first I thought she slipped, but then she started swishing her arms and legs, making a snow angel.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z “Of course. I’m not nearly finished. I’m not a finished angel, like you.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z And all around heaven were groups of angels—all of them white people. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Went up there picking a guitar and got all de angels doing the ring-shout round and round de throne. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “No, ma’am,” Katherine says, a smile breaking out over her face, making her look like an angel from a painting. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Lord Asriel was so surprised he stood up involuntarily, sending billows of smoke swirling around the angel. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I plug some headphones into the family laptop, select the angel food cake episode of The Great British Baking Show, and turn up the sound so I can’t hear them arguing. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z There were angel statues delicate enough that Toby didn’t want to go too near. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Or painted by an old master as the face of an angel. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I couldn’t be easily comforted by the suggestion that my dad had gone to a better place or was sitting with angels. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Although he looked harmless, I knew he was a dreadful angel counting out my many sins. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z That wasn’t what a hunter did, and it wouldn’t be what the angels would do, but Jam didn’t want to be an angel. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I saw the angels, or at least I imagined I saw them, watching us scrap, stepping forward and catching the car batteries or jagged lengths of steel tubing that Dad launched across the yard. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z What I saw was an upside-down town, small, quiet and peaceable, whose citizens went about with the sweet civility of angels. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The statue leaped high in the air, so high the sun framed her and gave her glaring angel wings. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “Had I not followed God’s orders to stop these fallen angels from living with the humans, then people, us, everyone, would have been taught to be as smart and powerful as God himself?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “Where were your angels then? Why didn’t they roll you off the tracks? Why didn’t they stop the train?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “And now it’s safe, or it will be when the angels fill the great chasm in the underworld.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z As if to emphasize my point, an exhausted father watched his little angel pull a laptop off the table and throw it onto the ground with dead-eyed glee. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z This mayor is an angel; the last couple of mayors have all been angels. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Show her into the library, of course,” cut in the “angel girl.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I don’t want to be a doll hung up on the Wall, I don’t want to be a wingless angel. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He said he thought that was better than being one single angel. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Then, softly, surely, an angel’s voice broke through the tumult, offering a place for that raggedy mix of voices to land. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I’m not sure I got all of it, but I got that he don’t call himself no angel. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When the surly handyman showed up that afternoon to nail up a few boards, he seemed an angel from heaven wielding a hammer. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t take the cake from the angel’s hand. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He came from the water and the marsh possessed by a stern angel that burned in the blood around his eyes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Now she could find it again, if she needed to, despite what the angels might think. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The next moment, the two angels were embracing, and Will, gazing into the flames, saw their mutual affection. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He read that the angels had taught humans the art of war, had taught them astrology, anatomy. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z And the child was named Angela for the Angelus which rang the midnight hour, the New Year, the minute of her coming and because she was a little angel anyway. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z When this had somewhat abated, and the coyote angel was only wheezing and gasping a little, Amarante dared to speak. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Will followed the angel’s voice and soon found the spot he described. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The group of men clustered on the front steps did not look like angels, but they could have been in disguise. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to concentrate on the angel’s voice instead. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Christ, isolated against a large rock that echoes His shape, is comforted by the angel bearing a golden cup, symbol of the Passion. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z This was what I had heard under the braided rug, that when you die an angel carries you off to a place called Heaven. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Proof that my ancestors walked that peak, watching and waiting, angels at their command. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z At his side, the angel carried the same kind of jagged bronze sword the Boreads had, and Jason’s last encounter with them hadn’t gone so well. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z About her feet were the winged heads of angels, the babes of Limbo. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But if Zola is an angel, then maybe she knows where the heaven is and where the angels are meeting, and maybe she knows what the rules are. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z He was asleep and he looked like an angel. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z She’s so quintessentially practical that most people would never guess she has a thing for angels. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Quito is a big, beautiful city, so much prettier than those boondocks where you live now. And my daughter needs a maid desperately. She’s an angel. She’ll treat you well.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She was sure there was a letter somewhere near an angel...or was it rolled up in someone’s hand? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Everybody thinks my sister is an angel straight down from heaven, but I know better. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z As I reached for the angel, the fifteen-foot ladder swayed a bit, but I slipped the decoration into place. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z They were without shame and without desire, like the angels. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Near the grove, off the highway, there was a shimmering temple topped by a golden statue of the angel Moroni. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I was going to stay and wait and ask the transport angel all my questions, but it did not seem right to interrupt the flight of Signora Mondopoco. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Then, on Easter Saturday, a dour day, the first quiet Easter Saturday in Ifemelu’s life, her mother ran out of the kitchen and said, “I saw an angel!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In one of the angel’s hands was a sword, glinting in the sunlight, and in the other hand was a lantern, burning a small flame. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Another night came, and still the angels flew on. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been hard for the other angels to hear it, to see one of their own confess to being something else, something other, something ugly. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He knew that a hellish angel hovered over them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Baruch and Balthamos told me that they used openings like that to travel between the worlds. Will angels no longer be able to do that? Will you be confined to one world as we are?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Another was Ob’s idea of heaven, and I thought his angels just might come off that thing and fly around that house trailer any minute, so golden and light were they. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z She dreamed of the ship that would take her, a magnificent schooner with sails like angel wings, cutting across the violent sea. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Instead, she stood at the door and watched her angel, his lids closed, the form of his body beneath the covers, rising and falling as he breathed in and out. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z If we were free and at home in Rhode Island and these were our sheets and our laundry lines and our snow, she’d dance like an angel. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not too late to repent. Even angels are allowed to do that. Let me hear your confession.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He reminded me of one of the golden angel heads with wings that hovered at the feet of the Virgin in her pictures. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I rejected several drawings because I didn’t want a pair of moronic angels but faithful portraits of Rosa and Clara, with their faces, their hands, and their real shape. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I had vampire nightmares; every night the fangs grew longer, and my angel wings turned pointed and black. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “The lovely green angels who live just below.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The angel, startled by Amarante’s voice, froze stiff with its ears lying back flat; and then, realizing there was no immediate danger, it turned to observe the puzzling natural phenomenon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z TJ attaches the angel wings by wrapping elastic over my shoulders. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She says, as if to the mountain, “Am I an angel?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z And God ordered his left hand, the angel Gabriel, to go down to Earth and stop the lawlessness. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “The wings of the seabird were huge. They looked like they belonged to an angel.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z And it isn’t about magic, or some idea that maybe God is looking right at you, or an angel is sitting next to you, or anything like that. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z And those bright angels were youths in dirty corduroy trousers, some study-raddled and some learning the small vices of their fathers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The angel folded up his giant wings and disappeared as Joseph bolted up from bed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I try to tell the angel Mam is bleeding to death. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In his own angel shape, shimmering like a heat haze in the sunlight, he said, “You were foolish to go to her. All you want to do now is see the woman again.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Still others wear all kinds of avatar items, virtual cat ears or antlers on their heads, enormous angel wings on their backs, hair and eyes in every color. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “There was some water damage in 1928,” said Penney, “and the original gold mosaic on the interior dome was replaced by the painting of the angel.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “My father used to call all soldiers angel warriors, ” he said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And in the center of the floor, there’s a large stone angel facedown on the ground, her back broken. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z There she was over there on the other side of the table thinking I was an angel, and here I was on my side feeling about as far from an angel as anybody could be. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z So she flew on, never losing sight of the angels, and gradually as she came closer they took on a clearer shape. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They turned to the angel and saw she had understood, and that she felt as sorrowful as they did. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Because, through the heavy water, I heard the sound of an angel calling my name, calling me to the only heaven I wanted. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Adam heard of the development of the I.W.W. with its angry angels. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “And what did you mean about angels?” she went on. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There are Celtic crosses now, and the occasional angel. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They’ll watch with open mouths as the breeze ripples over my blue dress and the sunlight shines on the lace trim; I’ll look like an angel. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z God looked at the representative angel as though He was about to admit something that He did not want to. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z He smelled like a vinegar barrel or a sour angel. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I had pictured us taking off to the United States of America, angel wings on our shoulders. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “Do you know what a guardian angel is?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Human beings were stronger than angels, stronger even than great powers like this one, and it was true: he was bearing the angel down to the ground. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Well, she said ‘Aaah’ a few more times and then that angel started to walk off the ceiling. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is no need for me to forgive you, for you are an angel,” I say. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The ceiling, which was twice as high as the ceiling in our house, was painted blue like the sky, and there were clouds and angels. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter was close enough to see the being in the litter: an angel, she thought, and indescribably aged. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z We said our good-byes to the angels, who flew off to party with their statue friends. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “Not if I whisper,” said the angel tartly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Twins snuff out the angel’s breath, Who holds the key to endless death.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Tourists navigated around the angel’s huge wings without a second glance. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The angel appears to kneel on a mysterious oval cloud, which envelops the sleeping disciples. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But instead of arms, Max has drawn Helena and me with angel wings, spreading from one end of the paper to the other, and under our wings are thirteen faces. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It was carved in black wood, with a canopy of angels in relief and a few scraps of red brocade that were frayed with age. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He had brought scones as well, and some sandwiches, and an angel cake. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z In Iran, when a guest comes, you tell them they may be angels, they are welcome and the whole house is filled with the joy of their presence. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The angels rode flying white horses and slashed swords and threw thunderbolts. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z So Will lay down on the warm sand, and somewhere nearby, he thought, the angel was keeping watch; but that was little comfort. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When he turned back to me, a gentle angel’s smile lit his expression. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Well, anyhow, I’ve never seen anything like this. The Old Man’s accomplishment. Incredible. His presence is everywhere. They hush when he passes, like an angel of the Lord. You ever see anything like it?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She could see the angel Xaphania gliding above the landing ground, and then rising and wheeling up to the tower as the craft made for the ramparts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Powerful angels, safe in heaven! they smile when sordid souls triumph, and feeble ones weep over their destruction. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z And then he added in his thick, flat Chinese, “Like the angel of light.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel -— Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Many people thought it wasn’t enough; but the angels were only human, and it’s hard to build a new world without making people angry. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z His face was flushed and radiant as an angel’s. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “You remember?” he asked, his angel’s face grave. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “If I was someone’s angel,” I reply, “I’d have more money than I do.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Do the other angels know what they are doing? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z And she doesn’t just collect angels; she believes in them. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “One of the angels is flying down to carry out God’s orders.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like being pulled into a whole other world, one with ghosts and angels and monsters, and I lose myself in it. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z She makes up her mind and as you pass by informs your back that she is daddy’s little angel child. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard the angels singing— It’s all the children Moses led, I heard the angels singing. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Let you think of beetles or honey, sweet baron, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest” “Nonsense,” exclaimed the Wart. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten feet from Cedric, Harry dived behind a marble angel to avoid the jets of red light and saw the tip of its wing shatter as the spells hit it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I marveled at the Book of John, with its terrible revelations of angels and beasts loosed at the end of time. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The wind angel—or whatever he was—whisked in and out of the pink granite windows, then disappeared on the other side. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We had been to Rockefeller Plaza, where we saw a huge decorated Christmas tree, statues of angels, and the people ice-skating. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She said when we were finished being people we’d go back to being angels. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z And, though highlighted already, the words “angels have corrupted” were also circled in black ink. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Maybe angels would be a better word for them. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Florent motioned to the pictures by the bed, the ones of Joseph and Albert and Frankie and Leo and the angel. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “It’s strange to think that angels don’t know the way to do this,” Will said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Bod had grown up in a graveyard and was used to images of winged people, but the angels on the headstones looked nothing like this. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “Some angels climb to heaven backwards,” Caroline said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Maybeth wandered among the rows, studying the statues of angels and lambs. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The black- light walls are lined with plaques paid for by families of the dead who are asking the angels to bring their loved ones back to life and give them a happy eternity. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “She said I looked like an angel, with a halo all around me.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Heaven needed an angel,” his dad said after a while. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Only Bo slept as peacefully as an angel, as if all his worries had come to an end that night. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z His angel’s face was only a few inches from mine. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Her eyes move, looking at the ceiling above me, and she smiles sweetly, as if she is seeing angels. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z And now here I am, sitting in the church, staring at the white spot on my left foot while the minister talks about God and heaven and angels. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z There are no stairs in this house and that means no angel ever on the seventh step. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Jesus Christ,” the angel whimpered, staring forlornly at the healthy bean plants. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But Lucille, the mayor and the council and everyone who came together to take away the monsters, those were angels, not these, she signed. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He had been ministered to by angels, he said, like the prophets of old. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I couldn’t imagine how an angel could be any more glorious. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She was tired, but she had called him “angel.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z And she scrambled up, hand over hand, forcing the beating wing aside, and seized the angel’s hair to wrench back his head and bare his throat for the snow leopard’s teeth. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The angel didn’t reply: it was too hard to concentrate. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z That night I am flinging here and there on the balcony, all mixed up about peoples and angels. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The afternoon sun poured in through one of the stained glass windows that lined the walls and the golden hue made Florence look like an angel. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Here we have religion and robbery the allies of each other—devils dressed in angels’ robes, and hell presenting the semblance of paradise. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z “There are the angels, and there are men, who Allah made from mud, and then there are the people of the fire, the jinn,” says Salim. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z They went rather hesitantly down into the cutting, half expecting the fiery, thundering angel of Frith to appear out of the twilight; but the silence remained unbroken. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You were always a good man,’ the angel said to him. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A band of angels coming after me Coming for to carry me home. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know angels wore spectacles,” he said, tugging on one of Phoebe’s curls. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Rosemary appears from a side hall like an angel from heaven. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “And when the Lord chooses an angel to do his work, you never know what they going to come back looking like.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z "Me? No, no. An invisible angel chased him away." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z "Oh—the angel sang it to me," I say nonchalantly. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I bet you are a clever angel,” she says. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z This was my latest information from the boys on angels: Every person carries his or her own angel inside. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z A glider...my brain grappled with the shape of the thing, a Concorde...a mutant angel falling to earth…. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z My angel costume is fitted like a large choir robe, so I slip that on in the living room over my clothes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z This is the face of a man who has killed an angel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There was nothing but the angels singing, and the warm wind. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He may have started off as a hoodlum, but Marcus Bloom had become a kind of angel to us. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It wasn’t like the angels wanted to be painted as heroes, but the teachers wanted the kids to want to be angels, you see? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Twig rolled off me, onto her back, and started making a snow angel, right in the middle of the snowball fight. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Then she added, “May you walk with the angels always.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Each child, mesmerized by the assault of color, stared into the drift of presents with a seasonal greed as pure as angel hair. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was monstrous, with two alabaster angels guarding the gate, and a dome-shaped fountain sputtering in the front yard. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I never heard our mother call Harry “my angel” again. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Don Bernardo really was our next door angel disguised as an old Spaniard with an ailing wife. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Funeral wreaths and angels, constellations of dust, stellar or otherwise, the puzzles left by spiders. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “While she was pregnant, Amina, the Prophet’s mother, had a dream with an angel calling her newborn Ahmad, which is a variation of Muhammad.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Jam thought about how Bitter had said the angels had to do dark things, hard things, to remove monsters from Lucille. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “You want to know about angels?” said Joachim Lorenz. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Jam tried to imagine Lucille’s angels as hunters, remembering how Bitter had told her they’d had to do dark things, hard things. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z There are also immaterial entities—the spirits of the dead, and friendly and malevolent beings, the kind that we today call demons, fairies and angels. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This angel that looked like Joey was telling me I had to swim up one more time. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The angel wasn’t quite close enough to reach in one movement, though, and in truth the pull on his dæmon had been painful and weakening. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He cut swiftly, and looked up: that other angel from the sky was only seconds away, and his expression was terrifying. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “It’s the wing of an angel, isn't it?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Sharpe reported, in words uneven and slurred, that angels had no arms. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z At those moments I forgot the itch of my flea bites and the sting of my cracked cheeks; I felt pure, like a scrubbed-clean angel dropped straight from heaven. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z An angel from heaven or a minion from hell? Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In the center of the room, the broken angel is upright, with a stunning crack zigzagging across her back beneath her wings. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He testified that he had beheld angels and demons. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Will cut through the crystal in one movement and reached in to help the angel out. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Someone’s voice seemed to call to him, and soon he found himself in the arms of an angel, floating high above a burning city. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I walk over to the angel and when I’m finished wishing my second wish—you always get three wishes, right?—I join Grandma in front of the painting. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Maybe in this moment the angels of Los Angeles have gathered to watch over me. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Obinze said, “The little girl that played the angel was very good.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I want to say they showed up like the angel Gabriel appearing to the Virgin Mary, setting events in motion I could never have guessed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Cordelia throws herself backward onto a blank front lawn, spreads her arms out in the snow, raises them above her head, draws them down to her sides, making a snow angel. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The tiled floor establishes a spatial framework, although this is not maintained in the bodies of Mary and the angel or in the architecture. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And that devilish angel kept on laughing to beat the band.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Disconcert them, she thought, keep them off balance; and this angel did not know what he should do, so he did as she told him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “He sent the metal angels. He turned you into a tree to preserve you.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The girls had never been called angel children before, and thought it very agreeable, especially Jo, who had been considered a ‘Sancho’ ever since she was born. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The child angel had been cleared of moss and planted all around with snowdrops and white narcissus that poured out an overpowering scent. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Could I get a please, Miss Zeus’s Kid?” an angel asked. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z How can peoples go around thinking angels are pigeons, or pigeons are angels? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z She stood and watched her angel while he was that. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Then I thought, how could this Doctor Gordon help me anyway, with a beautiful wife and beautiful children and a beautiful dog haloing him like the angels on a Christmas card? The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The stone angels looked down at them as if they'd been expecting them. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “Not even a whole angel, just a wing. And that’s supposed to be worth five million lire?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z "I see that angels have landed on his eyelids." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z For all of history and all over the globe she has been a nuisance, a pain, and an angel of death. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z And my sister, Maisie, ever present, an angel on my shoulder. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He was also very wrong about there not being anything like magic powers or genies or angels. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what I’m talking about. You’re the one who believes in all the angels.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A pair of tiny angels, dangling between his finger and thumb as he searched for the right branch. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Maisie, if it snows, can we have a snowball fight? Can we go sledding and make snow angels?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She could tell he was following her thoughts: Twins snuff out the angel's breath. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “We have been perfect angels,” said Moss, putting the food on the counter near the stove. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He turned around to see the two angels talking closely together, and then they came up to him, humble and awkward, but proud, too. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The bird let his rider step off, and then flew to the bracket by the door as the orderly announced the third of Lord Asriel’s high commanders, an angel by the name of Xaphania. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z We make angels and devils of our own want and regard, improvising from ourselves along the way. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The girls’ line was neat; they looked like angels in their starched white dresses, each pair of hands holding a white prayer book and a rosary. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever you see pictures of saints, men or women, they’re always looking up to heaven where there are clouds filled with little fat angels carrying flowers or harps giving praise. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z You could almost see the angels bending down to earth—even to rowdy old Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m bargaining with Him up there now. I’m asking Him, ‘Do I get to be one of the angels?’ Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z What I see as I look down aren’t angels but butterflies, the arm swings connecting to the leg swings like a pair of wings, our heads poking out in between! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The dragon appeared and threatened Billy, who was dressed as a girl; the angel with a sword and lantern descended from heaven. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Nothing changed; no more angels flew out or inward; the high winds tore at the clouds, and the clouds endlessly renewed themselves, not parting even for a second. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Angel, on the top of the incubator, just above Jake’s shriveled head, someone had fastened a miniature golden angel, maybe from a necklace or something. The angel was gazing down into the incubator.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z The space occupied by the stars is heaven, the habitation of God, the angels and the elect. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My friends teased me: “She is otherworldly, you know.... Our Jeremie has become angel with no thought of body.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The clipper was something else entirely, a machine angels had built. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z We put on his ruffled Sunday suit and I tell him that we are expecting a sweet angel and where angels tread, the hosts must be as beautiful as floating hibiscus. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “You do not know whether there are not ghosts on earth or angels in heaven.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your mother ever say, ‘Oh, Suds, you’re such an angel, you don’t have to clean your room anymore’?” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They were both trembling, the angel and the man, but one from weakness and the other from excitement. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “We are angels of death,” said Scythe Goddard. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Some friend or enemy or angel would kill you by defiling the marks you left in your passage. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And then on my right shoulder, there is a little tiny white angel. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Both angels slashed outward, and the skeletons went flying across the road. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The blackbird flew off his shoulder and vanished in midair, and there was the angel again, sulking in the half-light. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She cries and cries, asking for forgiveness, until finally another angel takes pity on her. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Then, just when I am calming down, she says, “Are you a boy angel or a girl angel?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z She sang in the choir in a clear beautiful voice like an angel. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And in theology, angels and demons occupied space, even if they did not have bodies in the conventional sense. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Where are you?” he said to the angel. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “The statue in the museum is an angel. It’s dressed in its altogether. I don’t know yet if an angel was lost...” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z When I looked up and saw the drawings of angels on the domed ceiling I thought of her. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In the pure light of heaven the angels praise Him and one another unendingly. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Heaven must be like this: Jesus, and his Mother, and the dumb beasts, and angels fluttering ’round like birds. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z The voices were singing a psalm and coming closer, and then she saw a procession of angels carrying a litter. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I sat in Amélie’s favorite café for an hour waiting for an old man whose name I don’t know to tell me, “L’ange descend en dix minutes-” Ten minutes till the angel comes down. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z A howl of rage strangled on the angel’s lips. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Gluten-free for Byrd, and angel hair for Aunt Nancy, who doesn’t like thick pasta. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z All around me are the cherubim, seraphim, continually crying “Holy, holy, holy,” the angels, archangels, that sort of thing. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He read that the angels’ children became unruly, savage beasts. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The poor wee lad was sitting on the stairs talking away to an angel. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Maybe I was supposed to be a transport angel but by mistake was dropped off as a ground angel. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z An angel food cake is baked from scratch. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s whatever you want. No limitations. If you’re into angels and halos and ghost dogs, then cool. If you wanna fly, you do you. If you wanna go back in time, knock yourself out.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “You know the stars are candles in the sky. Every evening, the angels come out and light them for us, so if we lose our way, we can still see.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not like the rest of us are exactly angels. Last night I saw Agnes eat a whole lizard in one bite.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Mark lost hold of Deedee’s hand and saw her disappear into the crowd, her sweet little cry like that of an angel among demons. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z But now, in the tower, here is the Zola girl, and she seems not at all surprised to see me, and she is saying, “An angel?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z A large chest of polished latoun had saints and angels enamelled in the panels. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The angels carrying the litter left the Clouded Mountain and flew south. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Clayton’s mother only said, “No, angel,” until one day she just cried and cried. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Great swathes of incandescence trembled and parted like angels’ wings beating; cascades of luminescent glory tumbled down invisible crags to lie in swirling pools or hang like vast waterfalls. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Maybe Mary Miller was an angel and God did have a plan for me, like Mrs. Merritt had said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Agnes took her vows at Pentecost, and seemed a veritable angel as she sang in the choir. But she deceived us. By the Feast of All Saints, she was heavy with child.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I am afraid, the angels, they do not sing to me,” he says. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z We’d be out there for hours, having contests to see who could slide farther without falling, chucking snowballs at each other, making snow angels. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z I wanted to look, to see my wings, but I was an angel of stone, so I could not move. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z In the morning, in the mess tent, I asked Lieutenant Carroll why he had called Jenkins an angel warrior. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the size of a house and decorated with so many angels, it looked like a convention of them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It had taken the angels a long time to get rid of that kind of dangerous in Lucille; it was a fight that had started decades before even Bitter was born. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I believed I saw angels lurking behind the eyes of the living, waiting. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z She had summoned me, and I stayed in the tower watching over her until another angel came and took her away. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Each one was an angel with feathered wings. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “So,” Gabriel began, taking a bite of the sandwich, “if I am an angel, what’s stopping me from just flying out of here?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “So—” Will stopped what he was doing, which was arranging his rucksack so the heaviest objects were in the bottom, and tried to see the angel. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “I dunno. Whatever it weighs, it has to be handled delicate. Like it was a real angel.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z There were still people in this town who would stop Toby and comment on the way his grandfather could sing and play—like an angel or a devil, depending. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z On the other side was a different angel, with wings upraised. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They complain about it, instead of begging God to bring them back and pretending they were little angels. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z And he had a guardian angel—a beautiful fairy in a yellow rubber raft. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z They sang about gathering by rivers, beautiful, beautiful rivers, with bright angels and crystal tides. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Union families called her an angel of mercy. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z It didn’t come with a fanfare of angels blowing trumpets and I didn’t reflect on it right away. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “We’ll find him. At least we know what the lines of the prophecy mean now. ‘Twins snuff out the angel’s breath, who holds the key to endless death.’ The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “And will we see you again? Will we ever speak to an angel once we go back to our own worlds?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She was bearing an angel food cake with fourteen candles. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then it is as much of a mystery to me, I assure you,” said the angel. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But my better angels lost again, defeated by drink, by the person I am when I drink. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder if the transport angels ever make mistakes and take the wrong peoples, ones who are not actually dying. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z The prince of the angels looked at her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then Mrs. Coulter found the angel’s face under her hand, and she dug her fingers deep into his eyes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In a painting dark with smoky grime, a naked Adam and Eve turned from the avenging angel. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Sometimes I’m sure there’s a light there and if everyone’s asleep I sit on the step in case the angel might be bringing another baby or just coming for a visit. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “The angel came closer to the man, and, with tenderness, led him to a bench nearby, where they sat down. “ The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Today at two o’clock my brother was without a dream team or a guardian angel on the jury. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Zola cannot be angel if so many peoples see her and she has a brother, right? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z “Well, yes, it might seem that way, but this angel—” “Zola, angels are not pigeons!” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z So far they had described an artichoke, a butterfly press, a sneaker, a ring of keys, a potted hibiscus, a carved Christmas angel, and a sandwich. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “Yes. It was still fuzzy around the edges and still all blue-white, but it gave off a very comforting feeling, and I knew it was an angel.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z In this church of surging hope, of thumping and clapping, where Ifemelu imagined a swirl of affluent angels above, her mother’s spirit had found a home. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z After she was done piling sand and I was done with my angel, we stared up at the sky. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh brother, you never saw such a bunch of motley angels as we got hovering over this town,” he crowed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She weeps for her children, Their smothered faces Of sleeping angels . Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z O dear good faithful tender Joe, I feel the loving tremble of your hand upon my arm, as solemnly this day as if it had been the rustle of an angel’s wing! Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Now that they’d found Lyra, the angel had begun to withdraw back into his grief: he was silent, distracted, and sullen. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They briefly mentioned other angels, those who weren’t human, but only to say that Lucille’s angels had been named after these other ones. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Ah,” she said, “here is our little angel.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Laura and her daughters would take the escalator, marveling at the moving staircase, she teasing them that this might be the ladder Jacob saw with angels moving up and down to heaven. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Matt’s voice was high and sweet—an angel’s voice, Celia said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He set off along the edge of the lake, away from the travelers, and the angel followed him, invisible in the bright air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Everyone has sins. Otherwise you’d be an angel—they don’t have sins.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I don't want to tell him that I'm not his angel. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Clayton looked forward to “double shift” nights posted on the refrigerator door, held secure by one of his mother’s many angel magnets. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z The twelve golden angels — including this year’s new one—one for every year of my life. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Not cute little Christmas angels, but high, stern angels in white robes, whose faces were sad and serious from being near God all day and hearing His decisions about the world. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is a spring halfway down the slope,” said the angel, “just above those trees.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The angel could see the little green thing dimly through the backs of his clasped hands, and she was sinking her powerful jaws again and again into his palms. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The ghost/prophet/inspector/angel was gnawing some kind of plastic strip off her wrist. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z With that, Lightfoot sank down on the empty grave of Mr. Royal Garnet Lacey, put her head against the angel’s stomach, and cried and cried. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The priest had watched every inch of the way, and he was sure now where the angel was standing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “To the armory,” Lord Asriel said shortly, and turned away to talk quietly with the angel. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And I raised my camera and took a picture of those angels cooking that food that smelled like heaven. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “What can you do then, besides play so well that Tehlu and his angels would weep to hear?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Ghosts poured from the angel’s huge metal hand, wielding knives and meat hooks, and the Tizerkane fought them off blow by blow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Pop Pop says I’ll look like an angel as I sing “Amazing Grace.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “You . . . you didn’t see an angel?” he asked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then that angel laughed harder and the moan got louder.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z So, when she finally went, I figured that some efficient angel had made Aunt Florentine’s bed and it was time for her to go. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Most of the angels had walked around like ghosts the whole time, shocked to their core at what Hibiscus had done. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z One thing Trout said that Rosewater liked very much was that there really were vampires and werewolves and goblins and angels and so on, but that they were in the fourth dimension. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “He added an angel, with a sword and a lantern, and Billy knew it was his brother, Marcus, who was now immortalized on the ceiling of the theatre...” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Dad tells me the angel is right, I shouldn’t be afraid, and I tell him what Mikey Molloy did to me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z And I’m sure there was an angel in Birmingham when Grandma Sands wrapped her little arms around all of the Weird Watsons and said, “My fambly, my beautiful, beautiful fambly.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When Mama passed, Grandma told me Mama is always gonna be my guardian angel. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z There was no twisting away from the repercussions that the angels brought, justice rising like a sun over the hill in a loud morning. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He sat down, and the two angels, their forms clearer in the moonlight than he had ever seen them before, sat with him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A disembodied voice, an angel voice, wafting through the air. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z And for a minute, Louisiana almost looked like an angel, with her pink dress and the blue sky lit up behind her and all her barrettes glowing. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z “What you think is God might be Satan appearing as an angel of light.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z They were not the kind his mother would let sit at her table with dirty hands to handle her salt and pepper shaker angels. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “He’s always protected angels with broken wings,” she said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He was beautiful the way an angel is beautiful—timeless, perfect, remote. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “But Mamma,” Etty said, “where do the women go, for all the angels are men.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Encircled by her army of angels, she drifted across the avenue to photograph a juggler, while I hobbled off toward home, a clear outsider in a city I'd foolishly thought to call my own. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Transcendentalism is a beacon to the angels, even if it be a will-o’-the-wisp to man. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z How could twins snuff out an angel’s breath? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Back home, where the house smelled of pork chops, peas, and potatoes—his least favorite meal, but there would be one less angel at the table, and that made Clayton smile. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z At first glance they looked like Valentine angels—a dozen chubby little Cupid babies. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I do not know where heaven is nor where the angel training center is nor where any other angels are. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z But the angel was equal to that: he became a mouse and crept into Will’s shirt as if he were shy. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z We went to the mall and sat on Santa’s lap, and I wore my angel costume again in a holiday pageant at church. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z In the stillness, for a second, I thought he might be stalking a spirit or an angel. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “No, worse. We are not of a high order among angels.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Probably some fat old lady. Then the chisel slipped, so he made a skinny angel instead.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z And that, the story went, is how man claimed ascendency over the world that was Zeru, while the demons were stricken from it by the angels. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I think Pet was an angel, Jam said. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Well, honey, I can’t say it isn’t, but an angel’s an angel, what do you think?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I picture myself charging ahead on its back with my head held high and the guardian angel pointing me onward. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He was still lovely, his skin so smooth and of a rich olive color, his hands long and slender like those of angels in illustrations, holding their choir books. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z We have inherited many attitudes from our recent ancestors who wrestled this continent as Jacob wrestled the angel, and the pioneers won. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She thinks I am “sweet and loving and peaceful”? So Zola tells me a story about a fearsome battle between angels and evil beings. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z In school, we learned about the world before ours, about the angels and gods that lived in the sky, ruling the earth with kind and loving hands. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z The form of the angel seemed to condense and swirl into a little vortex in midair, and then a blackbird swooped down onto the grass at Will’s feet. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When I got tired of this, I said, “Do you want to see an angel?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I lay next to Harry in his bed, watching the changing light reflect on the painted angels peering down from the ceiling. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Or was this little angel face telling him more lies? The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z How am I not even knowing angels from peoples? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z A child whose parents could not introduce him to books like Grimm’s Fairy Tales, I was introduced to the spheres of enchantment by the nighttime Catholicism of demons and angels. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Byron called this little area the World-Famous Watson Pet Hospital and he made me and Joey believe that magic powers, genies and angels all lived back there. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “As I was never allowed to meet any angels,” said Sir Lancelot with a smile, “it’s the best thing I can do.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z However, his arms encircled the angel’s wings, cramping them to his side. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When he returned to the rosary Lillian was speaking the first part of the angel’s greeting to Mary. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Joseph tried to focus on the drawing of the angel and on Leo. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “No one I know looks like an angel.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “He came to prominence long after I was exiled,” the angel said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The orange orb has wings like there’s an angel taking it to the hoop. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z I’m no angel, but I’ve never really done anything worthy of punishment. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He said the play itself was no masterpiece, but that the Lunts, of course, were absolute angels. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z And he went out foraging in the deserted places, and lo, an angel of the Lord came down, and brightness was all around him, and the angel said, “Be not afraid.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Your mother's an angel, his grandma always said. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z And when they asked her what happened, she said she’d met an angel. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Jam and Redemption had given their testimony in private, just to the angels, who had exchanged meaningful looks that no one would explain before letting them go. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “And so you shall, like an angel as you are!” cried Laurie, resolving, with a glow of philanthropic zeal, to found and endow an institution for the express benefit of young women with artistic tendencies. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z And then an angel comes down and shows him what life would be if he had never been bom. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z I saw a billowing white cloud enter the backyard, like an angel of death. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I’m not a Jackboot. How can I believe in angels?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “Perhaps the Conte has one of these beautiful carved angels,” Hornet ventured. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Not only was the king her chief accuser, he was also human, unlike the angel or Lord Roke, and she knew how to play on him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “That sounds just like the angel Leo drew, the one on the ceiling of the theatre!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “And suppose he’s sent those angels to look for your daughter?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The other two babies were fast asleep like little angels dropped from heaven. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Right in my own tower all the time, an angel? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Will found that if he looked at the fire, with the angel just at the edge of his vision, he had a much stronger impression of him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z "We are sinners, yet shall we be saved. Let us pray for deliverance, then you must go to your angel, take her away." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Lyra held each other’s hands tightly as the angel came toward them, with the light of another world shining on her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Whose angel child is this? they want to know. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z And may the flight of angels take thee to thy eternal rest. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I prayed earnestly to Tehlu and all his angels, asking for the draccus to die, just slide quietly asleep and pass on without turning around to see the city’s fires. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She looked like an angel, solemn, compact, made of air. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a thought: Maybe her angel will come out. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Joseph unwrapped it and found the small leather case with the picture of Leo and the drawing of the angel inside. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Most of them are drawings of common images—horseshoes, angels, stars, mermaids—but others are pictures of huge works of art after they’ve been tattooed onto actual people. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Neither Condivi nor Vasari, Michelangelo’s biographers who knew him personally mention the master carving this little angel; they mention only the angel carved for the altar in Siena. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Uncle Ob and Aunt May from West Virginia visited, and they knew an angel when they saw her and they took me on home. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z “And flying things got treasure! Flying things—angels—crystal treasure!” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “The man looked at the angel in surprise. “ The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Or was it an angel come from Heaven to take me to the safety of God’s sweet embrace? Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Floating angels and trumpet-wielding infants danced all over the walls and ceiling. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “No. But we saw angels the other night, making for the Pole.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Over his bed he has a pink-and-white plaster angel, some pictures of famous athletes, and two or three photographs of naked women. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z As I watched Janina’s little body jump with every spank, I couldn’t imagine the angel inside her putting up with such a disturbance. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Serafina followed his gaze and said, “If we camp with you tonight and keep guard against the Specters, will you tell us more about this world, and these angels you saw?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Just before the boy opened his mouth to speak, a large bird flew overhead and landed on the angel’s shoulder. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The snow angel has feathery wings and a tiny pin head. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But I’m twelve going on thirteen and I might be too old for angels. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Like this little town your angels have made. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She found Dustfinger behind the house, standing on a lawn of short, rather rough grass where a solitary deck chair stood next to a plaster angel. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Yeah. I heard about that. What did you do anyway? How did the angel child get grounded?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “Fair as an angel. Is he your brother?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z And how does Zola know what angels are supposed to do? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z To my surprise, the avenging angel waiting for me was not Dr. Schultz, but Mr. Fender. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z She understood that God was asking her to open her heart to us, and he’d sent that woman as a guardian angel to tell her everything would be okay. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I still don’t really know who the woman in black is—if she’s my guardian angel, if she’s an ancestor from my past or my future—but I know that she’ll always be with me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “We need to keep this angel warm. Put her in one of the bread pans. Pad it with a blanket first. Then set it on the oven door.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z This noble war in the sky elevated my spirits; I clasped my hands, and exclaimed aloud, “William, dear angel! this is thy funeral, this thy dirge!” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z I have to get my wish in that angel’s ear immediately. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z A flight of angels, armed with spears and swords, had emerged from the Clouded Mountain to meet the witches head-on. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “She asking about angels and monsters and things,” Bitter called over her shoulder, her voice a blend of amusement and pride. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Gran’s cat, Viper, made the cat Lucifer from the Cinderella movie look like an angel. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He stopped in astonishment: the word angel reverberated in his mind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It would be of salmon- colored Italian marble, with statues made of the same material showing Rosa and Clara with angel wings, because they were, and always would be, angels. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A draft from the open door sent an eddy of air across the bed, and the particles of the angel’s form, loosened by the waning of his strength, swirled upward into randomness and vanished. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Hatsue found under birch trees a half-dozen destroying angels and pointed them out to her daughters. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z "And is that why Gwenforte liked you so much? Because she knew you were an angel?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z But War Relic had been an angel for exactly one and three quarter races, and he was pushing his limits. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z What would she call him if he threw the glass salt and pepper angels across the room? Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Serafina watched her go, and then turned to see the last of the gleaming angels disappear far away. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I have to keep it inside or I can talk to the angel. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z When Bitter told Jam that the angels must have had to do dark things, hard things, Jam had thought of Hibiscus and the way his eyes sometimes looked like sad stones embedded in his head. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She must have been part angel to take care of the cranky old lady. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z An angel appeared to him, and told him that the words of one of his sons would be learned and repeated throughout the world for all generations to come. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I made an angel with my arms and legs. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Above them on a stone tablet stands another woman, this time with angel wings: Victory or Death, or maybe both. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I dream Cordelia falling, from a cliff or bridge, against a background of twilight, her arms outspread, her skirt open like a bell, making a snow angel in the empty air. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Always listen to the angels who find you,” she said. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The last words I’d written were the ones from the diner, back before the wolves and the angels. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I do want to see all the pretty angels who wear white dresses and fly in the air. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z The snow-white angel alone remains, hovering over Tara Burgess’s fresh grave, holding a single black rose in one hand. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “My lord,” said the officer who came in, “an angel has just arrived at the western gate—wounded—he insists on speaking to you.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She had never sold anything in her life beyond an occasional angel cake for the Altar Guild in the basement of the Episcopal church, but she began to sell bonds by the bale. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z What did St. John Rivers think of this earthly angel? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z One angel food cake with chocolate icing dripping down its sides—Lucas’s favorite. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “We met an angel. She told us all about that, and other things as well. It’s true, Lyra.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Instead of sleeves, the white eyelet blouse had frills at the shoulder, floppy as the wings of a new angel. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z So silent, the both of them, the angel and the snow. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “Look, this is serious. If you saw an angel, then tell me.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z How many angels could dance on the head of a pin, and with what matters did God occupy himself in all the infinite aeons before the Creadon? Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The heavens were inhabited by angels, demons and the Hand of God, turning the planetary crystal spheres. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Every time one batch of angels left, another batch came out of the chest. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “The government doesn’t want you quiet, Titid,” says Lally, smiling like little angel. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, Will saw with dismay, he was cowering against the wall of the cave, back in his angel form, trembling and whimpering. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will looked around for the angel and saw his shape outlined in droplets of mist in the late afternoon light. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He looks like an angel, if a broken one. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z All the swirling angels suddenly seemed much closer together; the military man was making out with one of the mermaids; even the palm trees swayed seductively in time with one another. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z From somewhere unseen a chorus of swelling chant rolled forth, filling this celestial space with sounds that made me think of the measured beating of angels’ wings. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The priest raised his eyes to the place where he thought the angel’s face would be, and saw him for the first time: just a shimmer in the air, but there was no mistaking it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And soon, if the angels are gathered close, I will own cloud-white tennis shoes. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z There weren’t any Good Samaritan beer angels floating around waiting to gift us our weekly Friday buzz. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Bending over the glass, I stared around Saint Cecilia at the organ and all the painted angels and flower garlands to see if something of Grandpa would stare back at me. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He loved to draw and grew obsessed with the angel on the ceiling of the theatre. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “Come see your snow angels. Look how cute! Fifi’s is so small!” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I mean, compared to some of the real creeps in school—the ones who cling to Jenny Flick as if she’s some sort of rock star because she gives out—James is an angel. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z As Tam Lin said, if you didn’t know Tom well, you’d think he was an angel bringing you the keys to the pearly gates. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She asked the angels to take charge of him. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z We sped up, so I could tell the angels were excited. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The angels looked at each other and shrugged. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z There was one called the “destroying angel” that would kill people who ate it so they were absolutely dead in a few days. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z According to legend, the angel Gabriel told him, “Recite!” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “If you were a scientist,” said Will, “I don’t suppose that was a good thing for them to say. You might not have believed in angels.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z "He wasn't so nice. Everyone's making him out to be some kind of angel." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I was an angel with stiffened wings strapped on my back with a gold harness. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “The angel touched a burning coal to my forehead, bringing a sharp and blissful sorrow, and I saw before me the shining face of my dear Savior.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She looked me over real hard and said, “Honey, you look like an angel come down to earth. Don’t know why you’re wearing that coat in the summer, though.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z My first thought was of angels descending, their burning brands flashing, their fierce wings stirring up things. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I just have to make a snow angel. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Inside the dome was a painting of an angel, his great white wings spread out across a dazzling sky, as if captured midflight. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He had no idea where he had got his picture of academic life—perhaps from the Dore illustrations of Dante’s Inferno with its massed and radiant angels. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The mothers were told it had been an “angel baby,” which had gone to heaven, to prepare a place for her. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The two cards, one a familiar playing card and the other a tarot card emblazoned with an angel, are amongst the papers on the desk. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I told her that if I ever saw an angel, then I would believe,” I said, feeling foolish, ashamed, hating and pitying my believing granny. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z After that night I just stayed around the house like a good angel. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She took her mother’s hand and pulled her toward the angel books. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He stopped by a white angel, arm uplifted, a stony sadness. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted the angel to come down and show us how Uncle Billy’s life had meaning. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z To either side of it, on the wall, there are angels. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “I made a program—that’s a set of instructions—to let the Shadows talk to me through the computer. They told me what to do. They said they were angels, and—well...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When the rest of you is killed, the angel comes out and flies off to Heaven. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “You broke my angel!” she shouted at him. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z It was the kind of thing that would make you ’shamed the next time you ran into a real angel or a real abolitionist. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Either the old pirate was following us around like some sort of weird guardian angel, or Abbey and I were the luckiest two kids in Florida. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z However you looked at it—whatever the ijji had been, and whatever had killed them, angels or not—this mound of bones was an epic mass grave. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Angel after angel, outlined in fire, their wings ablaze, tumbled screaming from the air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Irene thinks of herself as a guardian angel with metallic wings. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z When they began speaking the angel language again, they looked around as though they weren’t sure what might be lurking in the darkness. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I took each one to be an angel announcing nearby land. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She told what had happened when she flew up to meet the angels, and then of her journey to Lord Asriel’s fortress. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The angels rose up into the stormy air and vanished. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But she trusted to her flesh, and to the strange truth she’d learned about angels, perhaps especially those angels who had once been human: lacking flesh, they coveted it and longed for contact with it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Momma went and got the angel and sat next to Joey. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Critically, yes? Can’t believe everything everyone tells you, even in school, it’s good to question. But remember, is Lucille angels that organized we. And what did we learn from that?” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “You believe in spirits,” Miss Joe says, “but do you believe in guardian angels?” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Then after that some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “I saw him eat last night. That man can throw down some food—angels don’t burp like that!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Swooping from the skies like great heavenly birds gathering the angels who had fallen below. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Aché were neither angels nor fiends—they were humans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “We saw many other things. We met an angel,” said Pantalaimon quickly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He thought she looked like an angel—with her round brown face and soft white uniform. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Good night, sweet Prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest . The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He believed he had seen transmutation performed; he evidently thought it likely that the anonymous stranger who had performed it, in his presence and with his assistance, was an angel, no less. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I remembered the angels’ voices waking me up that morning. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “I’m talking about not being an angel baby anymore. I’m talking about taking care of Number One for a change.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z No angles angels showed up in the sky, and nobody sang any pretty carols. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Darling, the angels have themselves a lifetime to come to us.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z That’s the job of an angel, even the one on the seventh step. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It was taught in school: how the monsters had maintained power for such a long time; how the angels had removed them, making Lucille what it is today. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Cartesianism, by making an unambiguous divide between the material and the immaterial, left it unclear how angels and demons might be present in the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I’d pray for anyone, angel or demon, to keep me from being sick, but no one was listening or they didn’t care. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z And as Metatron raised the bloody stone high, a golden-furred shape sprang up like a flame leaping to a treetop, and the monkey sank his teeth into the angel’s hand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It was angels, she would say, a small tear falling to the corner of her smile. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Just like a little kid, making a snow angel and laughing and laughing.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z She picked up the angel saltshaker as if it were precious and tapped it lightly over her food. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Then he thought she looked like an angel resting with her wings spread out behind her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I wished I could wear my angel wings that Adele had made, but of course they had been left behind. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “I am not a bird. I am an angel.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Zola is right: Some are women and some are babies, and it is a puzzlement because never I see these angels in real, only in stone and in paintings. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Behind our picture is a poster of Maná, the terrible Mexican rock band that I hate, because all their songs are about weeping angels or something equally lame. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z One of them had found our friend the homeless guy, and they were having a serious conversation about metal angels from Mars. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Ifemelu was in the living room with her father, and when her mother said “I saw an angel!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z How long ago, an angel who kept the herd of cows in the sky married an earth girl, the Spinning Maid, and took her to live with him in Heaven. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She had asked Baba Joseph if angels were the same as ancestral spirits, and he had been vague about it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But Mama held him and rocked him and sang songs that Hanako had not heard since Akira was a baby, songs about falling asleep and moonbeams and angels. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Young lady, pray to God and all the saints and your guardian angels.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z “Stone angels. Now they're opening the gate. Wow, those dogs are big.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “So was the seabird actually an angel? Was it doing a good deed and saving the baby?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z The gilded mosaics of angels, kings, and saints, which decorated the walls and ceilings, only shined at certain times when the sunlight fell through the church windows. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Meg sings like a freaking angel and is one of the strongest actors in the school. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z I tried to cry like my sister, but I was too busy looking for Mrs. Milgrom’s angel. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “Remember what Papa used to say, ‘Behind a white cloud, a bird looks like an angel.’” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z ‘The verses of your son who was the poet were very popular in Rome,’ the angel said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She smiles at me, the smile of an angel, benign but remote. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “So, you really think that these angels were that smart?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z It was like trying to stare down a destroying angel. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z His skin was sad, with the bones almost exposed, and he had a pronounced round stomach and the expression of an old angel, which came more from simplicity than from goodness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But Jam trusted her mother for those brutal truths, and that’s why home was the first place she brought the books with the angels in them. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Then she thought about the other lines of the prophecy: The twins snuff out the angel’s breath, who holds the keys to endless death. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z That beautiful, innocent angel reborn; Sandy said her face will be scarred for life. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Each of them wore the remains of a black cap and ages ago they had stood in two demure rows and their voices had been the song of angels. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I have shed myself, put on someone else’s truth, and filled this space with my voice, acting as Rose from Fences, Camae, the angel in The Mountaintop, and Lady in Blue from For Colored Girls. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z And second, Hassan began to come home in the evenings complaining of angels. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Lainie and Mr. Barris stand next to Tara’s grave, the angel hovering over them close enough to lay its hands upon their heads. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I think that kind of angel only does transport. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z We looked blithely at the road ahead, quadruplet angels. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And then she was an angel and it didn’t hurt her anymore. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z She did look rather like a little angel, Johnny thought—just as people were always telling Cilia on the street—and so graceful. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “The angel touched the man’s shoulder, and they were both projected far into the future. They were in an immense setting, surrounded by thousands of people speaking a strange language. “The man wept with happiness. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they see the angel, played by a farmer’s son in a tunic covered with goosefeathers. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Alcante had such a beautiful presence that he seemed like the guardian angel of the pavilion, but Farmer worried about what would happen when he returned to his home in the central plateau. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He wasn’t sure where he was any more, maybe back in the jungles again; he felt a sick sweat shiver over him like the shadow of the angel Auntie talked about. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The angel’s head was turned, and his sweet face seemed to be watching over the audience from the clouds. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z His shoulder hit the angel’s, and knocked Balthamos off balance; and in throwing out a hand to save himself, the angel let go of the insect dæmon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There, hanging by unseen ropes, was the angel, played by Marcus, wearing white wings and carrying a sword and a lantern ...” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I sit on the seventh step a long time and I’m sure the angel is there. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z This God created a world with people at the top, near the angels, and all the other animals down below, unrelated to human beings. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, “Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,” and he would have meant the same thing. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She told him about the fortress, about the allies, about the angels, about the mines and the foundries. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z This was not boasting—it was a declaration of equality rooted not in better angels or the intangible spirit but in the sanctity of the black body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “We must kill the structures all the way to their roots,” the angels had said, “and only then will Lucille be safe.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Her bare feet moved swiftly over the cool metal of the angel’s palm, as though she were trying to keep up. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I was glad of the scones and the angel cake. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z And the old man, grinning, had scratched his head and then said stiffly, “Well, boy, if he’s an angel, he’s sure a murderin’ angel.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He explained briefly, feeling his cheeks warm with the shame that the angel must be feeling. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “You have the voice of an angel,” Reverend Tweed told her as he shook her hand after the service. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Will stood up, meaning to say “Hold him tight,” but even as the words came to his mind, the angel sagged against the ground, dissolving and spreading out like mist, and then he was gone. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “No matter who that poor man is he deserves our respect. He was once someone’s little angel baby.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “No,” said Maniac, “I don’t think I’m bad. I’m not saying I’m an angel, either. Not even real good. Somewhere in between, I guess.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They have stacks of Bonnie’s books on ghost hunters, psychics, and dangerous angels. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z In those paintings, angels cluster around the living and the dead who sit peaceably on thrones, making signs with their hands. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The angel casting them out looks a mite bit like the mayor. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Every one of those bees could have descended on me like a flock of angels and stung me till I died, and it wouldn’t have been the worst thing to happen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Now you be me, Lucifer, the loveliest angel of them all. dud: What do I do? devil Well, sort of dance around praising me, mainly. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z In the daylight the angels were less visible, though to any eye their strangeness was clear. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But angels came and told them not to be afraid because God would be with them. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Jam waved goodbye and watched him break into a jog, his body moving with an easy grace, then she went to the library to look up pictures of angels. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It let out a great call just before the angel Gabriel spoke. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z He knew that Hob had worked on Cully for fourteen hours a day to teach him his trade, and that his work had been like Jacob’s struggle with the angel. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Heaven was crystal lit with white angel Fire, colored peach at the edges. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z In the sky above Weep, the angel folded its wings, and the moonlight and starlight that for fifteen years had been held at bay came flooding in, seeming sun-bright after such long absence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She brought the oar down again on that angel face. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Aunt Helen ... and the trees kept moving . . . they just wouldn’t stop moving ... so I laid down and made a snow angel. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z As Will had found with the smoke of his fire, that had the effect of defining the angel’s body so he could see it more clearly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The goats are not worrying about who is an angel and who is a people or what is fair and what is ghistly. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z I did not see that angel because I was outside collecting figs, but I heard the flooshing and saw the golden light. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z She stopped to cough, then cleared her throat and said in a still husky voice, “How could I manage? You’re the plague of my life—my—my guardian angel.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes a people needs an angel and sometimes an angel needs a people. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z I laugh, making a snow angel too, my whole body cold from the snow, but warm from the moment. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The angels took the laws and changed them, tore down those horrible statues of rich men who’d owned people and fought to keep owning people. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The angel was occasionally visible now in the long shadows of the trees. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “You know, like they have in big churches. An angel like that is probably quite valuable, but only if it has both its wings. And he has probably somehow lost one of them.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z He tells of another refugee: the baby Jesus, whose family had to flee the land of Israel and go to Egypt after an angel told Joseph they were in danger. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It was said that Green Lake was "heaven on earth" and that Miss Katherine's spiced peaches were "food for the angels." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “What happened, honey?” she asks in an angel’s voice. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z With its great black wings of spray, arcing above the rigging, it rose before them like an angel of death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z |
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