One a mourning piece, with a very tall lady weeping on an urn in a grove of willows, and two small boys in knee breeches and funny little square tails to their coats, looking like cherubs in large frills.
The rush of conflicting feelings was too great for Maggie to say much when Lucy, with a face breathing playful joy, like one of Correggio's cherubs, poured forth her triumphant revelation; and Lucy could hardly be surprised that she could do little more than cry with gladness at the thought of her father's wish being fulfilled, and of Tom's getting the Mill again in reward for all his hard striving.
"Disputation is not amusing to cherubs.
" "He flew in a mantle of fire," cried another, "and lovely little cherubs peeped out from the folds.
When a child, her head must have resembled one of Raphael's cherubs; it was still an angelic face, with its white locks of silvery hair.
" "He flew in a mantle of fire," cried another, "and lovely little cherubs peeped out from the folds.
" "He flew in a mantle of fire," cried another, "and lovely little cherubs peeped out from the folds.
