paradisaic

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He revealed a splendid opening for an up-and-coming prophet at ancient, paradisaic Medina up the Red Sea coast.

From Time Magazine Archive

Honolulu, paradisaic melting pot of East & West, was tense with trouble last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

His propinquity was grateful to her Schneiderian membrane, at any rate; his odour was paradisaic; his pocket-handkerchief a musk-bag, his head an altar of incense, or magnified civet-ball.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

Bob paused, and then said, with defiant decision, as if resolutely turning his back on that paradisaic picture:

From The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George

The memory of that first state of Freedom and paradisaic Unconsciousness has faded away into an ideal poetic dream.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest