lotus eater
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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
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
How they got home you must read in Homer:—Mr. Tennyson—himself, we presume, a dreamy lotus-eater, a delicious lotus-eater—leaves them in full song.
From Early Reviews of English Poets by Haney, John Louis
I felt a dash of the infatuation of the lotus-eater, in his "—land that seemed always afternoon."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
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