Delightful intercourse of short duration and rare occurrence.
“(Visits) Like those of angels, short and far between.”
Blair: Grave, pt. ii. 586.
“Like angel-visits, few and far between.”
Campbell: Pleasures of Hope, line 375.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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