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

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

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

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