PARADISE in a Sentence

paradise

 n.  garden of Eden; any place of complete delight and peace

1  Candide, driven from terrestrial paradise, walked a long while without knowing where, weeping, raising his eyes to heaven, turning them often towards the most magnificent of castles which imprisoned the purest of noble young ladies.

Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In II

2  To sacrifice the world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow.

Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING

3  Legends, chimeras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, are provided for them to swallow.

Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING

4  It was from this paradise that Monseigneur Welcome had passed to the other.

Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING

5  To live free, rich, happy, respectable with Cosette; to see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of her misery.

Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...

6  She thought she was gazing at paradise.

Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL

7  Little white Paternoster, which God made, which God said, which God placed in paradise.

Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS

8  In the cloister, hell is accepted in advance as a post obit on paradise.

Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME

9  When the doctor has signed the passport for paradise, the undertaker's company sends a coffin.

Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...

10  When she entered the lowly cabin, she filled it with paradise.

Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED

11  If Jehovah himself were present, he would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot.

Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL

12  No paradise becomes terrestrial in our day.

Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR

13  They proclaimed right furiously; they were desirous, if only with fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise.

Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...

14  The laborer, the harvester, the sailor, the blacksmith, will appear to you in glory like the blessed spirits in paradise.

Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...

15  We have happiness, we desire paradise; we possess paradise, we desire heaven.

Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE

1  There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love and innocence.

2  The oblique rays of the sun on the orchards create this typical landscape that traditional iconography would associate with an earthly paradise.

3  The Koran describes paradise as a place containing a garden of delight.

4  The hotel felt like paradise after two weeks of camping.

5  She indeed lives in a fool's paradise as she always dreams about making a huge fortune overnight.

6  There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love andd innocence.

7  Dreaming in the memory is not as good as waiting for the paradise in the hell.

8  Parts of California seem like paradise to me.

9  His idea of paradise is to spend the day lying on the beach.

10  They know marriage in paradise is better than on earth.

11  This state of things should have been to me a paradise of peace; but, in fact, my racked nerves were now in such a state that no calm could soothe, and no pleasure excites them agreeably.

12  Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be allowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unworthy of such a privilege.

13  And if I had loved him less I should have thought his accent and look of exultation savage; but, sitting by him, roused from the nightmare of parting -- called to the paradise of union -- I thought only of the bliss given me to drink in so abundant a flow.

14  In those days, Scandinavia was known as a veritable workers' paradise; not it isn't;