Careful Words

ministering (?.)

A ministering angel shall my sister be.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.

O woman! in our hours of ease

Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,

And variable as the shade

By the light quivering aspen made;

When pain and anguish wring the brow,

A ministering angel thou!

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Marmion. Canto vi. Stanza 30.