lotus eater
Example Sentences
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About it were chairs and divans that would have satisfied a lotus-eater.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
It was aristocratic, enchantingly indolent, like the face of a happy lotus-eater.
From The Garden of Allah by Hichens, Robert Smythe
Is this the existence of the lotus-eater, Marian?
From The Bachelors A Novel by Orcutt, William Dana
If one has been a lotus-eater all summer, he must turn gravel-eater in the fall and winter.
From Winter Sunshine by Burroughs, John
His was not the temperament of the lotus-eater.
From A Vanished Hand by Doudney, Sarah
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.