ambrosia
noun
the food of the gods.
Example Sentences
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O lady, arm'd with equal power, If e'er within celestial bower, With messmate gods reclined, My muse ambrosially hath dined, Lend me the favour of a smile On this her playful toil.
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Elizur Wright
Each contended that she was the "fairest," and therefore should have the "fruit of pure Hesperian gold That smelt ambrosially."
From The Story of Troy by Michael Clarke
He smiled, and opening out his milk-white palm Disclosed a fruit of pure Hesperian gold, That smelt ambrosially, and while I looked And listened, the full-flowing river of speech Came down upon my heart.
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
He thought that no goddess had ever done so divine a thing so ambrosially as she when she smiled and shook her incredibly exquisite head.
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh
