Sentence examples for threshold of paradise from inspiring English sources

"If he had drunk the milk, when the Day of Resurrection came and my foot was on the threshold of Paradise, I would not have entered without taking Ibn Muljam into Paradise too".

At the summit of Purgatory, where repentant sinners are purged of their sins, Virgil departs, having led Dante as far as human knowledge is able, to the threshold of Paradise.

And it is, as critics always say of the Mackay vision, suburban — as kitsch, as unexceptional, and yet as rich in history and wonder as a plain Victorian terrace house, its garden alive with "mahonia and hypericum, snowberries, bitter blue currants, spotted laurel", its threshold radiant with tiling and stained-glass birds of paradise encased in leaded lights.

This has assisted the evolution of some 40 species of birds-of-paradise.

The fifth clade (E), consists of Paradisaea birds-of-paradise, Wilson's bird-of-paradise (Diphyllodes respublica), magnificent bird-of-paradise (Diphyllodes magnificus), and king bird-of-paradise (Cicinnurus regius).

Thus, Macgregor's bird-of-paradise (Macgregoria pulchra) is a giant honeyeater [ 13], while the cnemophiline birds-of-paradise form a distinct lineage well separated from the true birds-of-paradise clade [ 13- 15].

The third clade (C) consists of the twelve-wired bird-of-paradise (Seleucidis melanoleuca), Drepanornis sicklebills, the standardwing bird-of-paradise (Semioptera wallacii), riflebirds (Ptiloris), and the superb bird-of-paradise (Lophorina superba).

Within this clade the genera Diphyllodes and Cicinnurus are sister lineages, while the blue bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea rudolphi) is sister to other Paradisaea birds-of-paradise.

This model was proposed to explain the apparent rapid radiation of the birds-of-paradise.

This clade is supported as the sister group to the core birds-of-paradise (remaining genera).

A longer generation time in polygynous male birds-of-paradise, compared to other passerine birds, may thus influence the inheritance rate of phenotypic characters in polygynous species of birds-of-paradise.