lotos
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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 Cruikshank, George
It was a lotos land for all who sojourned there.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
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
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 Lewis, Sinclair
She suffered from an affection of her breast, and this she dreamed:—She beheld the young god Harpocrates lying on leaves of lotos, and covered with bandages from the head to the feet.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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