Word: angelic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from a long silver trumpet, and the tintinnabulous sound of bells, the archangel, clad in white robes of dazzling brilliancy. From Thayer and Matthews and Hollis and Weld and Stoughton and Holworthy and Grays, rushed the frightened students. They stopped not to admire the classic features of the gleaming angel, but on they sped...
...Morgue is no longer a mere inanimate building. It becomes weirdly endowed with an awful personality. It is an explorer, it is an expounder, it is a preacher, it is a prophet, it is a stern moralist, it is a ghastly buffoon, it is a broken-hearted recording angel. Like some horrible ghoul, grinning and gibbering forever amid its dark mysteries, it stretches out awful hands to the wretched and the despairing throughout the vast, throbbing city, and whispers: "Come to me, come to me!" and they hear and shudder and turn cold at heart, and-come...
BOSTON MUSEUM.-"The Angel of Midnight. Performance...
BOSTON MUSEUM.-"Sweethearts and Tom Cobb" at 2. Benefit of Miss Annie Clarke, "The Angel of Millnight...
Morris Earle.Medora, a Grecian maiden made into an angel by her Uncle Yussuf, who fondly styles her "Me-dora...