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Paradise   /pˈɛrədˌaɪs/   Listen
Paradise

noun
1.
Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.  Synonyms: Eden, heaven, nirvana, promised land, Shangri-la.
2.
(Christianity) the abode of righteous souls after death.



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"Paradise" Quotes from Famous Books



... made and named Cape Fear on the 23d, and a first landing the next day, and on the 26th came to Wococa where Amadas and Barlow had been the year before. They disembarked and at first mistook the country for Paradise. July was spent in surveying and exploring the country, making the acquaintance of the natives, chiefly by means of two Indians that had been taken to England and brought back able to speak English. On the 5th of August Master ...
— Thomas Hariot • Henry Stevens
... down into the old Samnite lands, past Beneventum that closed its gates and mourned over its devastated fields, on across the Volturnus, descending at last into the Falernian plain, the glory of Campania, the Paradise of Italian ...
— The Lion's Brood • Duffield Osborne
... over the rocks and beneath the little patches of snow forgotten by the sun. And to these two, whether in the depths of the vast forest or, as now, at the edge of the merciless desert, stretching away like a world without end, their environment seemed nothing less than a paradise. ...
— The Girl of the Golden West • David Belasco
... livid. Maisie said nothing, but encouraged Dick with her eyes, and he behaved abominably all that evening. Mrs. Jennett prophesied an immediate judgment of Providence and a descent into Tophet later, but Dick walked in Paradise and would not hear. Only when he was going to bed Mrs. Jennett recovered and asserted herself. He had bidden Maisie good-night with down-dropped eyes ...
— The Light That Failed • Rudyard Kipling
... "I know my duty, and I beg you will leave me to do it. I, with my sword, have hopes of paradise, as well as you with your breviary. Show me my path to heaven. I will show you yours ...
— Pioneers Of France In The New World • Francis Parkman, Jr.


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