lotos
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Nowadays, everybody has travelled to some distant land, has seen, with everybody’s eyes, the charmed isles and lotos shores that used to be only in books.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 by Various
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 Lewis Wingfield
This was the lotos, of a peculiar red colour, which the people of Lower Egypt used to wear in wreaths upon his festival.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
In Paris, the poet was captivated by the charm of young Matilde Mirat, his "lotos flower," as he called her, or also "la mouche."
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson
Afar from the scene of their sorrow, in the lotos a-bloom on Vishnu's head, they beheld the primitive Humor, the laughter of infinite Strength springing from bar to bar in the great gymnasium of life.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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