lotos
Americannoun
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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 J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
From the depths of the ideal, swarms of bedecked and bejewelled divinities escorted Brahm back to a lotos of azure.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus
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
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
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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