lotos
Americannoun
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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
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
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
His complexion is blue, his eyes are like the flowers of the lotos, and his visage burns with an eternal youth.
From Heathen Mythology by Various
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 Herbert M. (Herbert Müller) Hopkins
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