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• His answer offers no fairy tales of salvation or a paradisiacal afterlife. Michael Brenner: The Buddha As Icon
• The sub-species _sapientum_ (formerly regarded as a distinct species _M. sapientum_) is the source of the fruits generally known in England as bananas, and eaten raw, while the name plantain is given to forms of the species itself _M. paradisiaca_, which require cooking. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
• But no one who lived in those days has returned to testify how paradisiacal they really were.
• Some of the paradisiacally named islands include Ile au Miel WordPress.com Top Blogs
• It is said that the specific name _paradisiaca_ is derived, either from a supposition that the plantain was the forbidden fruit of Eden [151], or from an Arabic legend that Adam and Eve made their first aprons of the leaves of this tree, which grow to a length of five to six feet, with a width of 12 to 14 inches. The Philippine Islands
• And again, I find myself in kinship with him, because in my focus on religious, philosophical, and spiritual horror, I'm walking an analogous line between the paradisiacal potentials of these things and the nightmarish ones. Dark Awakenings and Cosmic Horror : The Lovecraft News Network
• Fletcher Christian and his conspirators, by contrast, eventually settled on the paradisiacal Pitcairn Island, where life descended into a Hobbesian hell when the new inhabitants turned on one another. Bounteous Misperceptions
• The first trees were the most excellent of all, abounding with the choicest fruits, and were called paradisiacal trees, being such as are never seen in any country of the natural world, because none such ever grew or could grow there. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
• Have I properly established how paradisiacal that May day was? ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• At the sight of all these things the companions of the angels exclaimed, "Behold heaven in form! wherever we turn our eyes we feel an influx of somewhat celestially-paradisiacal, which is not to be expressed. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love