How To Use Elysian In A Sentence
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This man afterwards sold them to Samuel Worthington, a cotton planter of Mississippi; whose letter, in reply to Gerrit Smith, arrived the day we were at his house; and he being in doubt how to effect the redemption of the family, and their safe transportation, thou wilt remember that I agreed to effect both, to what I shall call the Elysian Fields, or, more properly,
A Visit to the United States in 1841
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To desire to keep the old body seems to me to argue a degree of sensual materialism excusable only in those pagans who in their Elysian fields could hope to possess only such a thin, fleeting, dreamy, and altogether funebrial existence, that they might well long for the thicker, more tangible bodily being in which they had experienced the pleasures of a tumultuous life on the upper world.
Unspoken Sermons Series One
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In a career of more than 20 years, Mr. Hickenlooper directed several other feature films, including "The Man From Elysian Fields" (2002), with Andy Garcia in the role of a failed novelist who goes to work as a male escort for a dandyish boss played by Mick Jagger.
George Hickenlooper dies: Emmy-winning director was 47
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We visited the so called Elysian Fields and Avernus: and wandered through various ruined temples, baths, and classic spots; at length we entered the gloomy cavern of the Cumaean Sibyl.
The Last Man
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He feels his adrenaline rounding into a kind of sloshy, Elysian joy.
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As a student at the University of California he played in a rock band called Elysian
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The Elysian Fields have smiling groves, grass that is always green, the weather is always fine. No one is ever unhappy or ill.
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This part of the ocean may be called the Elysian Fields of Neptune's empire; and the torrid zone, notwithstanding Ovid's remark, "non est habitabilis æstu," is rendered healthy and pleasant by these gently-blowing breezes.
Wanderings in South America
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Berlioz wrote a severe test of tuning for unaccompanied choir in the final ‘mystical chorus’, and here the Elysian singers came up trumps.
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Those that had done well, went to the elysian fields, but evil doers to Cocytus, and to that burning lake of [6399] hell with fire, and brimstone for ever to be tormented.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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My antagonist led me across the rue St. Honoré, to a place which I suppose you know, called the Elysian Fields.
Anna St. Ives
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“Apollo and the Muses do not yet intend me to become the prey of the bony scytheman, as I have yet much to do for you, and much to bequeath, which my spirit dictates and calls on me to complete before I depart hence for the Elysian Fields; I feel as if I had written scarcely more than a few notes.”
Beethoven A Character Study
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This plateau was called the Elysian Fields, now Alyscamp, and is so thick with tombs that you walk over them as you follow the road that runs along the plateau.
In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc
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n. - kind of liliaceous plant; daffodil; Literature, flower of the Elysian fields. bog asphodel, British grass-like moorland plant. asportation
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An Associated Press article published by The New York Times a couple of months ago told us that the Elysian and Silver Lake, “two reservoirs that supply drinking water” to sections of Los Angeles, were found to contain “high levels of the carcinogen bromate.”
Treating Cancer with Landscape Architecture
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In classical mythology Elysium, also known as the Elysian Fields, was the paradise reserved for the heroes immortalized by the gods.
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
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But, in general, the wail of jazz trumpets and the melancholy echoes of domestic chaos remind you that Elysian Fields resounds with desperation.
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It was held at a nearby Mormon church, and the burial was at a small suburban cemetery called Elysian Fields.
Richard Paul Evans Ebook Christmas Set
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This is the doorway to the afterworld… heaven, hell, paradise, nightmares, Elysian, Tartarus… whatever name you want to grace it with, but it is not as people view it.
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The ancient mythology here seems revived; the naiades are placed on the borders of rivers, the nymphs in woods worthy of them, the tombs beneath Elysian shades, and the statue of Esculapius in the middle of an isle, while that of Venus appears to rise out of the waters: Ovid and Virgil might walk in this enchanting spot, and still believe themselves in the Augustan age.
Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy
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an elysian meal
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The region of the catacombs was called the Acheronian and [361] Acherusian plain, and likewise the Elysian: and the stream, which ran by it, had the name of Acheron.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)
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And think not that the felicity of the heroes and demigods in the Elysian fields consisteth either in their asphodel, ambrosia, or nectar, as our old women here used to say; but in this, according to my judgment, that they wipe their tails with the neck of a goose, holding her head betwixt their legs, and such is the opinion of Master John of Scotland, alias Scotus.
2009 February « Anglican Samizdat
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IT'S AN ELYSIAN Northern California morning, with unsullied blue skies and warm, piney breezes.
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We transport them from their grubby little lives to Elysian fields.
PAINT THE WIND
