Thesaurus / halcyon
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Relatively, it touches those old times when religious houses, with their quaintly-trimmed orders, were in their halcyon days.
OUR CHURCHES AND CHAPELSATTICUS
And yet subsequent generations have viewed with unconcern this halcyon period in the history of art.
THE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING, VOLUME 1 (OF 4)RICHARD MUTHER
This is the halcyon period of primers, introductions, handbooks, manuals.
Do you know the periods when the Mediterranean is troubled, and when the wintry halcyon days come?
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY, VOLUME I (OF 2)FLORENCE A. THOMAS MARSHALL
Sleighing parties from Wheeling frequented this old tavern in the halcyon days of the road, and were handsomely entertained.
THE OLD PIKETHOMAS B. SEARIGHT
There is little to add, then, to the story of that halcyon trip, and not much to elucidate.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
But there is one little ceremony to be perfected before I can be allowed to enter upon so halcyon a state of existence.
THE PRIME MINISTERANTHONY TROLLOPE
That time was a halcyon time for me, falling in no whit short of what I had always pictured it in anticipation.
A FRONTIER MYSTERYBERTRAM MITFORD
Could such halcyon moments last, it were worse than madness to seek the wealth and honours of this world!
WILD WESTERN SCENESJOHN BEAUCHAMP JONES
They had twenty-four days of halcyon voyaging between Vancouver and Sydney with only one rough day.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
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