paradisaical

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When Queen Elizabeth’s yacht, Britannia, steamed to the Maldives’ main island, Male, in 1972, she was the first head of any state to visit the paradisaical speck of Britain’s Commonwealth.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2012

Quadruple the footprint, pad the seats, replace The Time Traveller's sodding Wife with a microwave, and it becomes the bibliophile's paradisaical starter home.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2010

From her apartment in "Jerusalem," one of the House of David's less than paradisaical buildings, Ada Jeffrey was minding the colony's dairy operation as she has done for 60 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Byron's Life and Letters and the completion of Rogers' Italy with Turner's paradisaical designs had recently awakened to its full the romantic interest which long had been gathering around "the sun-girt city."

From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund

Another tells you that morality, or philosophy, will lift you again to those paradisaical heights that tower high above your straining vision.

From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)