elysium

• There were great roses and sweet elysium, mignonette, peppermint pinks, crępe myrtle, riotous vines and creepers. —  Sally of Missouri
• And at the end of this elysium, which was not wild in its beauty, but trim and orderly in its gracefulness,--as might be a beer-garden at Munich,--there stood among flowers and vases a pedestal, grand above all other pedestals in that garden; and on this there was a bust with an inscription:--"To Von Bauhr, who reformed the laws of nations It was a grand thought; and though there was in it much of human conceit, there was in it also much of human philanthropy. —  Orley Farm
• The place, once of all most hateful, painted by fancy became an elysium: employment enlivened by plays, rum, and tobacco, was described as a cheering vicissitude in a life of crime. —  The History of Tasmania , Volume II
• She had imbibed ideas of a spiritual life and existence, which she fancied could only be enjoyed in the Indian elysium, and instructed as she was by the old story-tellers, she could not do otherwise than deem the light and sprightly little men who made the fairy footprints as emissaries from the Happy Land_. —  The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians
• Mr. Stistick, however, did do so; he had to hand Mrs. Stistick down from that elysium which she had so exquisitely graced. —  The Bertrams

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