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Example sentences for "paradises"

Lexicographically close words:
parading; paradisaic; paradisaical; paradisal; paradise; paradisiacal; parados; paradox; paradoxa; paradoxes
  1. The second is the Sambhoga-kâya, or body of enjoyment, that is to say the radiant and superhuman form in which Buddhas appear in their paradises or when otherwise manifesting themselves in celestial splendour.

  2. Stags and wild boars were sufficiently abundant to make the keeping of them in paradises unnecessary.

  3. You may pull all your paradises about your ears save your earliest; that is to be yours sometime.

  4. Fare thee well and may the white disk of Luna show thee all Paradises of thy past and all Paradises of thy future youth.

  5. The highest heaven (following after the paradises of good thoughts, good words and good deeds) is called Boundless Light or Endless Light[547].

  6. The fourth gallery seems to deal with the five superhuman Buddhas[411], their paradises and other supra-mundane matters, but the key to this series of sculptures has not yet been found.

  7. My sick brother, as in hospital-maladies men do, thou dreamest of Paradises and Eldorados, which are far from thee.

  8. These paradises were places of beauty and loveliness, where the king and his friends might meet and walk together, and enjoy each other's society.

  9. Paradises or parks planted by the kings; gardens and shrubberies containing summer-houses by the wealthy; hanging garden, 130-1.

  10. Nevertheless, the kings had their paradises or parks, and the wealthier classes their gardens or shrubberies.

  11. All the Paradises are watered by rivers, such as the Kevser, the Tesnim, and the Selsebil.

  12. In the Islam faith there are eight Paradises arranged one within the other in ascending stages.

  13. One of the most remarkable of these is the Twelve-wired Paradise Bird, Paradises alba of Blumenbach, but now placed in the genus Seleucides of Lesson.

  14. It has been named Paradises aurea and Oriolus aureus by the old naturalists, and is now generally placed in the same genus as the Regent Bird of Australia (Sericulus chrysocephalus).

  15. The first is the Paradise pie (Astrapia nigra of Lesson), a bird of the size of Paradises rubra, but with a very long tail, glossed above with intense violet.

  16. Those remarks of yours about fools' paradises were not inspired solely by the affairs of Sellers.

  17. Doubtless the garden owes its name to the eight heavens or paradises mentioned in the Quran (Hughes' Dictionary of Islam s.

  18. There are those among the servants of the Lord who would utter groans like the damned in hell if one put them in possession of the eight paradises without Him.

  19. The seven seas are then no more than a pool of water; the seven planets are a spark; the eight paradises are only a single curtain; the seven hells a mass of ice.

  20. I should be loth to leave it too," he added, surveying with extreme content the pleasant refuge in which they had taken up their rest; "for in all the paradises of Babylon was never so green and lovely a spot as this!

  21. But when the devil's advocate has made his round, we must still plough and eat, and the paradises must just be laid out for new sowing.

  22. Taine has passed, fools' paradises must needs fall in market value.

  23. Chaos, however, is not so much to be feared as those "little provisional fools' paradises of belief" exposed so brilliantly by William James.

  24. In particular what wonder that all little provisional fools' paradises of belief should appear contemptible in comparison with its bare pursuit!


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