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Idyllic   /aɪdˈɪlɪk/   Listen
Idyllic

adjective
1.
Excellent and delightful in all respects.
2.
Suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene.






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"Idyllic" Quotes from Famous Books



... This idyllic condition was interrupted by a disturbance on the promenade, which caused them both to look in that direction. Some one was pushing ...
— Sandy • Alice Hegan Rice

... change in the sky, islands, or sea. They had had idyllic weather for the six weeks since their planeting, no sign of any such trouble in the ...
— Key Out of Time • Andre Alice Norton

... to overlook another idyllic picture in the same exhibition, Whispers, an illustration of Horace's well-known line, "Lenesque sub noctem susurri." In this charming work, amid masses of crimson flowers and green leaves, two lovers are seen ...
— Frederic Lord Leighton - An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work • Ernest Rhys

... you were permitted to see Cosette with her old grandfather, M. Fauchelevent; those hours of sweet pain when it was impossible to determine whether it was Rebecca or Rowena who seemed to give most light to the day; the flirtations with Blanche Amory, and the notes placed in the hollow tree; the idyllic devotion of Little Emily, dating from the morning when you saw her dress fluttering on the beam as she ran along it, lightly, above the flowing tide—(devotion that is yet tender, for, God forgive you Steerforth as I do, you ...
— The Delicious Vice • Young E. Allison

... was an idyllic picture that the dear old lady drew, and I have often wished myself amid the rush and roar of modern life, that we might go back to the simpler methods of ...
— The Autobiography of Methuselah • John Kendrick Bangs


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