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peri (pēr`ē), in Persian mythology, supernatural being. Peris were said to be fallen angels who were denied paradise until they did penance. Originally agents of evil, in later mythology they were identified as benevolent spirits.
peri
beautiful fairylike creatures, guided way to heaven. [Pers. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 822]
See : Beauty
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"The Peri and the Pearl," a clever skit of a poem of two hundred lines, just finished, white hot from his brain, won the heart of the editor of a San Francisco magazine published in the interest of a great railroad.
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There was not a soul in Randolph Crescent, nor a soul in Queensferry Street; in this outdoor privacy and the sense of escape, John took heart again; and with a pathetic sense of leave-taking, he even ventured up the lane and stood awhile, a strange peri at the gates of a quaint paradise, by the west end of St.
Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
He had already withdrawn his eye from the Peri, and was looking at a humble tuft of daisies which grew by the wicket.
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