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  • He pulled down her brassiere, cupping her breasts, sighing in bliss.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » A Delicate Subject 2008

  • He opens his eyes again and leans into me and I close my own eyes and suddenly butterflies are swirling in rapid succession in my stomach and I am overtaken with something that can only be described as bliss.

    blog: Drowning 2009

  • He opens his eyes again and leans into me and I close my own eyes and suddenly butterflies are swirling in rapid succession in my stomach and I am overtaken with something that can only be described as bliss.

    blog: June 2009 2009

  • '' That's my shot, '' he said of a nervous day that ended in bliss.

    Spurs fufill dream with first NBA title 1999

  • With such soil to till, and among such Queen worshippers, the distressed British farmer would be in bliss.

    Canada in 1953 1953

  • Tom kept looking at her with a nod or a smile so like old times, that for a little while, she forgot Maria Bailey, and was in bliss.

    An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

  • But the achievement of happiness is not an "all or none" process -- with some effort all of us can make definite improvements in our levels of happiness, we can all become happier than we are today, even if we don't achieve complete "bliss."

    Q & A with Dr. Howard C. Cutler, co-author of The Art of Happiness 2010

  • To feel completely loved, I would imagine, for her was equal to my own, different kind of bliss.

    Self-sufficiency and the embrace of Jesus Andrew Beckner 2007

  • To feel completely loved, I would imagine, for her was equal to my own, different kind of bliss.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Andrew Beckner 2007

  • Appearances may be of sights, sounds, odors, tastes, physical sensations, or ways of being aware of something, such as bliss.

    Making Sense of Tantra ��� 10 Kalachakra 2002

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