lotos
Americannoun
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The lotos, it is well known, was a sacred flower in Egypt.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington
If she was not like Rama, fair as the jasmine, or the moon, or the fibres of the lotos, neither had she, like Krishna, the complexion of a cloud.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various
His Egyptian medals are few and of questionable genuineness: the majority of them seem to be purely Hellenic; but on one he bears a crown like that of Isis, and on another a lotos wreath.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington
Some compared her to the unblown white lotos as it sways dreamily in the breeze.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis
His complexion is blue, his eyes are like the flowers of the lotos, and his visage burns with an eternal youth.
From Heathen Mythology by Various
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