How sleek, smooth-tongued, paradisaical a deluder art thou, sweet Self-conceit!. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
And wind, but that's just the black-fly bite the gods throw in to remind us of mortality when New England gets too paradisaical. From Wordnik.com. [Meanwhile, back at the ranch...] Reference
Primarily, the area extends into Afghanistan in one direction, into India in the other direction, and it's a verdant, sort of paradisaical land where the Buddha's image probably first evolved. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Ragogna: The Buddha Image...Out Of Uddiyana: A Conversation with Collector Nik Douglas, plus a Forward by Tibet House's President Robert Thurman] Reference
The cover, in black and white, depicts some cheerful-looking figures from one of Bosch's more paradisaical paintings who have been superimposed on a photograph of a foggy beach at Big Sur, California. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Henry: Henry Miller and a Sunday in Big Sur] Reference
The youthful imagination is apt to dress the institution of Marriage in too many garlands, and to consider it full of ethereal joys and paradisaical blessedness such as can exist only in the chambers of an untaught fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
I read and re-read her letter, and some softened feelings stole into my heart, and dared to whisper paradisaical dreams of love and joy; but the apple was already eaten, and the angel's arm bared to drive me from all hope. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
“Yes, it WOULD be a paradisaical existence!” agreed. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Souls] Reference
Where in America do I go to enjoy this paradisaical condition. From Wordnik.com. [Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com] Reference
Margarita is a paradisaical island off the northern coast of Venezuela. From Wordnik.com. [All Categories Featured Content - Associated Content] Reference
Here is a religious world, idyllic, paradisaical in its immediate relation to the. From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
But neither the climate nor the general "conditions" of the city can be called paradisaical. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference
To see a single peach upon its stem makes an impression of paradisaical fertility and luxury. From Wordnik.com. [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers] Reference
Nor does it appear, that the whole earth, though fitted for great fertility, was made paradisaical. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Mosaic Account of the Creation and Fall of Man.] Reference
Zoe's paradisaical notions took a still higher flight, she dreamed of becoming celebrated as well as grand. From Wordnik.com. [Zoe: The History of Two Lives] Reference
I break my fast upon fruit, and we lunch upon fruit, and in the evening, also, partake of that paradisaical food. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference
Situated in the most paradisaical location ... its a destination that one only sees when one goes on pilgrimage. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to French holiday firm debuts 'Eco-Nature' resorts] Reference
I have no paradisaical evening interviews, stolen from the restless cares and prying inhabitants of this weary world. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference
Of the Roc de Tayac, in and against which this paradisaical hotel is plastered, I shall have more to say in another chapter. From Wordnik.com. [Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe] Reference
It softens the dying bed, bridges the river of death, and in chariots of fire takes God's Elijahs to the paradisaical city of the. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,] Reference
We entered the inn, homely as it was, quite certain that any transition must be paradisaical, compared with our late hopeless condition. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference
How seldom it is that a mortal is permitted to enjoy a paradisaical scene, unhaunted by some painful vision from the past or the future!. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II] Reference
He had recently left Brook Farm, had just been married, and with his bride he settled down in the "Old Manse" for three paradisaical years. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
Another tells you that morality, or philosophy, will lift you again to those paradisaical heights that tower high above your straining vision. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons to the Natural Man] Reference
The soil is rich even to exuberance, the verdure of the trees and hedges, in short the whole of this paradisaical region is without a parallel!. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in England in 1782] Reference
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names aka that band with a name that doesn't fit on the shelf and they've taken to task the paradisaical jaunt that. From Wordnik.com. [the culture of me] Reference
"But why a fellow may not get as near a paradisaical condition as he can, with the drawback of marriage, and in this mundane sphere, -- I do not see.". From Wordnik.com. [Nobody] Reference
"Whatever," Priestley rhapsodizes, "was the beginning of this world, the end will be glorious and paradisaical, beyond what our imaginations can now conceive.". From Wordnik.com. [Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham] Reference
At the time, I had also read books by extreme natural foodists who had similar agendas and whose motives were to find paradisaical environments to live off the land and create their own Edens. From Wordnik.com. [New York Daily Photo] Reference
But suppose that after all this trouble to get himself bolted and screwed into a paradisaical tabernacle of a dormitory, there had suddenly rung through the house the cry of FIRE -- FIRE -- FIRE! how was Dr. From Wordnik.com. [Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2] Reference
The kind of place an otter, it seems to me, would find downright paradisaical. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Moment Of The Magician]
A sort of confused atavistic memory recalls to her a period before clothing was known, and reveals to her as a paradisaical ideal the customs of that human epoch. ". From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy] Reference
I think of parasitic, paradisaical tubers. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-05-01] Reference
"What a charming place this is, a paradisaical place, so to speak. From Wordnik.com. [Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication] Reference
"Exquisite -- charming -- enchanting -- paradisaical -- divine!" murmured. From Wordnik.com. [Romance of California Life] Reference
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