sacred lotus

How to use sacred lotus in a sentence

• Avenues of magnificent trees led up to squares with giant trees enclosing them, terraces, and ponds covered with the sacred lotus.

  Intimate China | Mrs. Archibald Little

• We knew that the flowers represented here, were a species of the extinct sacred lotus.

  Brood of the Witch-Queen | Sax Rohmer

• The capitals represent the full-blown flowers and the buds of the sacred lotus, or water-lily.

  A History of Art for Beginners and Students | Clara Erskine Clement

• Their tresses have not been deposited under the shadow of the sacred lotus, as Pliny tells us those of the Vestals were.

  Gryll Grange | Thomas Love Peacock

• On one arm of the Virgin is the Child, and in the hand of the other arm she carries the sacred lotus.

  The God-Idea of the Ancients | Eliza Burt Gamble