BLISS in a Sentence

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For BLISS, below is one of 79 sentences:
In it is described the way by which faith can be reached, and the happiness, above all earthly bliss, with which it fills the soul.

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 Meanings and Examples of BLISS
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bliss
 n.  a state of extreme happiness
Classic Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1  The Professor looked as if he had conquered a kingdom, and the world had nothing more to offer him in the way of bliss.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
2  Chance laid them somewhat apart; let them be once approached and bliss results.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  I have at last my nameless bliss.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  I feared my hopes were too bright to be realised; and I had enjoyed so much bliss lately that I imagined my fortune had passed its meridian, and must now decline.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  I looked up at him to read the signs of bliss in his face: it was ardent and flushed.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  Your bliss lies, like his, in inflicting misery.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
9  Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition, for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
10  In her desire to be matrimonially established, you might suppose her to have passed her short existence in the perpetual contemplation of domestic bliss.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXX
11  Traddles was very full of it; and said, that, picturing himself with such a home, and Sophy waiting and preparing for him, he could think of nothing wanting to complete his bliss.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
12  He saw nothing but her clear, truthful eyes, frightened by the same bliss of love that flooded his heart.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 15
13  Those six weeks had for her been a time of the utmost bliss and the utmost misery.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 4
14  In it is described the way by which faith can be reached, and the happiness, above all earthly bliss, with which it fills the soul.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 21
15  It must be pure bliss to arrange the furniture just as one likes, and give all the horrors to the ash-man.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  I like to go off on my own - to sit back and bliss out in a darkened move theater.
2  Lying on a sunny beach is my idea of sheer bliss.
3  The first six months of marriage were sheer bliss.
4  Mr Lowe has just celebrated six months of wedded bliss to his sweetheart Ellen.
5  But when he saw this small new-comer his soul was all ablaze with bliss in a moment.
6  Religion called -- Angels beckoned -- God commanded -- life rolled together like a scroll -- death's gates opening, showed eternity beyond: it seemed, that for safety and bliss there, all here might be sacrificed in a second.
7  And if I had loved him less I should have thought his accent and look of exultation savage; but, sitting by him, roused from the nightmare of parting -- called to the paradise of union -- I thought only of the bliss given me to drink in so abundant a flow.
8  We spent a blissful week together.
9  We preferred to remain in blissful ignorance of what was going on.