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Answer for the clue "Figure that wrestled with Jacob in Genesis ", 5 letters:
angel

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n. spiritual being attendant upon God person of exceptional holiness [syn: saint , holy man , holy person ] invests in a theatrical production [syn: backer ] the highest waterfall; has more than one leap; flow varies seasonally [syn: Angel Falls ]

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" Angel " is a song by the British trip hop group Massive Attack . It was released on 13 July 1998 and is the third single from their third album, Mezzanine , and the tenth single overall. The song samples The Incredible Bongo Band song, "Last Bongo in ...

Usage examples of angel.

I then found myself: it was a sort of spite, because the angel whom I adored had displeased me by a caprice, which, had I not been unworthy of her, would only have caused me to be still more attached to her.

Tell me whether you are a man or an angel, for I fear lest I sin in adoring you.

Then, too, the crowds of admiring spectators, the angel host of captivating beauties with their starry orbs of light, and luxuriant tresses, curling in playful elegance around a face beaming with divinity, or falling in admired negligence over bosoms of alabastrine whiteness and unspotted purity within!

She is acting by me like an angel, and if she were to command me to turn anchoret, I know I ought to obey her.

Still, I do not mean you to understand that the child, already a fully developed and exceedingly wise angel, might not be able to visit that mother, and aid her on in her own progress toward angelhood, and this rule applies to all who go and all who stay.

This Maximus, that saw this thing betide, With piteous teares told it anon right, That he their soules saw to heaven glide With angels, full of clearness and of light Andt with his word converted many a wight.

Her eyes were smoky marbles in a bust of discolored lapis lazuli, and I regarded her at that moment as an angel of transcendent apehood, a woman well ahead of her time.

The Jewish speculations about Angels and Mediators, which at the time of Christ grew very luxuriantly among the Scribes and Apocalyptists, and endangered the purity and vitality of the Old Testament idea of God, were also very important for the development of Christian dogmatics.

He did so with an astonished stare, and, calling me his father and guardian angel, swore an eternal gratitude.

She was as we might well imagine a fallen angel to be, if indeed, as she herself once hinted and as Atene and the old Shaman believed, this were not her true place in creation.

Ride Shamu, tend the Jupiter Lighthouse, dive the Atocha, perform my one-man salute to Claude Pepper at the Kravis Center, become a surf bum in Jensen, join the harvesting of the oysters at Apalachicola, take a billfish on flyrod, double-eagle at PGA National, ride with the Blue Angels from Pensacola, deliver peace and justice to my Cuban exile community.

Another, and another wail, while the wretched man hurries off, stopping his ears in vain against those piercing cries, which follow him, like avenging angels, through the dreadful vaults.

Swift and sure, at ten yards off, his arrow rushed through the body of the driver, and then, with a roar as of the leaping lion, he sprang like an avenging angel into the midst of the astonished ruffians.

I have been a fiend when I thought myself the grandest of men, yea, a very avenging angel out of heaven.

She told me that I was an angel of goodness, and begged me not to tell anyone of what had passed between us.