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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

She is a land of violent contrasts; level plain and broken sierra, elysian garden of Andalusia and tractless wastes of Castile, frosty Burgos and sunny Seville.

From Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

In the history of a passion, it is doubtful if any mood is more elysian than that which accompanies the waking moments on the morning after the great discovery.

From The Mayor of Warwick by Herbert M. (Herbert Müller) Hopkins

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




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