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elysian

[ih-lizh-uhn, ih-lee-zhuhn] / ɪˈlɪʒ ən, ɪˈli ʒən /


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But Phillips’s songs—ethereal, elysian, toothsome—have inspired plenty of scholars and fans to go scouting for more information, beginning with the musical apparatus that might have been responsible for that celestial chiming.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 20, 2016

Now 2 & 3 Part Inventions, a work of elysian balance and serenity, is performed at N.Y.C.B.

From Time Magazine Archive

To this wild mountain region came Florence Howard, after luxuriating on the picturesque Hudson, and dreaming herself in elysian realms among the "thousand isles" of the queenly St. Lawrence.

From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton

Beyond their claims, the memorial parks, columbariums, homes of eternal rest and elysian lawns offered choice lots—with a special discount on caskets—on the installmentplan.

From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore

Ball-going is elysian when one is very young and cheerful and active, but it is a pleasure which, for nine men out of ten, soon palls.

From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by George William Erskine Russell


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