lotos
Americannoun
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On the bosom of the water were scattered the wrecks of what had recently been a beautiful bed of Egyptian lotos.
From The Mayor of Warwick by Hopkins, Herbert M. (Herbert Müller)
Must I not guard myself against the funeral song of the land of the lotos flowers, against the Indian barcarolle of Nirvana?
From Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von
With them were gallinules and small green herons, and across the pink mist of lotos blossoms just beyond, three egrets drew three lines of purest white—and vanished.
From Edge of the Jungle by Beebe, William
Great cities wore wreaths of red lotos on his feast-day in commemoration of the manner of his death.
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
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