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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

Soft and elysian in its beauty was all around.

From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

The happy hunting grounds are merely a repetition of his present life, only in those blissful elysian fields a Good Spirit wills that game shall always be in abundance, and hunting facilities inexhaustible.

From Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography by Johnson, Clark, M.D.

Life seemed an elysian dream, from which care and sorrow must be for ever banished.

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee




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