Elysium

How To Use Elysium In A Sentence

• The Elysium seas feature a large scavenger called a gaper, whose hinged jaw is easily capable of taking up a person in a single swallow. Old Mans War
• The king, "with such a secretary in his closet, felt himself in the very Elysium of Heren-hausen. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
• The last time we chatted was in the central lobby at the House of Commons, and looking at his sheer pleasure you'd imagine that he had just got a day pass to Elysium.
• Everything was perfect. She was in Elysium.
• In classical mythology Elysium, also known as the Elysian Fields, was the paradise reserved for the heroes immortalized by the gods. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
• Homer's heaven was an elysium which he describes as a plain at the end of the earth or beneath, with no snow nor rainfall, and the sun never goes down, and Rhadamanthus, the justest of men, rules. New Tabernacle Sermons
• He looked at me with a kind of impatient, tourist sympathy, a man passing quickly through problem country on his way to Elysium. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
• From here, it seemed dark, but it was that shore known as the bright place, the fields of elysium, the last shore: there, the fairylands of flowers and blowing grasses grew like the hair of the dead in their graves, beneath a sunless sky.
• But this time, rather than a desolated world, survivors are trapped on a spaceship named “Elysium.” PANDORUM DVD Review – Collider.com
• As a sample of the religious sentiment of Pindar we give the following fragment of a threnos translated by MR. SYMONDS, which, he says, "sounds like a trumpet blast for immortality, and, trampling underfoot the glories of this world, reveals the gladness of the souls that have attained Elysium: Mosaics of Grecian History