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Student If I could go to college forever, it'd be blis...
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She slides the prawns into a hot pan and instantly the roar of blis -
the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995
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_The Courtiers life full delicate it is, but where no wise man will euer set his blis.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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But welcome now my light, and shining lampe of blis.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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The two lovers were then brought together by the prince "in peace and joyous blis."
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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Personified in the being who presided over the Acrasian "bowre of blis."
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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Prince Arthur, having slain Corflambo, released Amyas from the durance of Paea'na, Corflambo's daughter, and brought the lovers together "in peace and joyous blis" (canto ix.).
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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"SONNET III": Cf. Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II, xii, 72: where Guyon first views Acrasia in the "Bowre of blis."
Sappho and Phaon Agnes Mary Frances 1796
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Dark is my day, whyles her fayre light I mis, and dead my life that wants such liuely blis.
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Who would not oft be stung as this, to be so bath'd in Venus blis.
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