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 John Addington Symonds
But we had a disgustingly clean table, with a mad, reckless picture worked in silk, showing two doves and a boiled lotos flower, hanging near us, to intimidate us.
From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis
I only see the scrambling goat, The lotos on the water float, While an old shepherd with an oat Pipes to the autumn breezes.”
From London Lyrics by George Cruikshank
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 John Addington Symonds
Hari awoke, and dispelling sleep from his lotos eyes, looked upon me, and then arising said,—‘Welcome, welcome, O Pitamaha! my dear son!’
From Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India by Hargrave Jennings
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