paradisiac

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So it is, perhaps, that the world's most fabled paradises are being lost each day yet never seem to lose their paradisiac allure.

From Time Magazine Archive

If it was adopted, the Pacific would become a filigree of 22 bases, stretching from Hawaii to the China Seas, from the barren Aleutians to paradisiac Samoa.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under the April showers and sun-shafts they became tragic, enchanted, horrific, paradisiac.

From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir

And now I feast upon sweet cakes and honey, and think it paradisiac enjoyment to play whist—for love—in a farm-house parlour.

From Birds of Prey by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Neither is the serpent the mere storm-cloud in those paradisiac legends of Chaldea and Phœnicia in which we have been able to discern a relation in form to the record in Genesis.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various