Lotos

The mariners in Alfred Tennyson's great poem, "The Lotos Eaters" land on the idyllic shores of a Lotus Land where life on the beautiful beaches is complemented by the intoxication of eating the "Lotos" leaves brought by the natives.

Covenant Zone 2008

Mr. Barsky also confirmed his company is interested in acquiring the 53% stake Poland's government holds in the country's second-largest refiner Grupa Lotos SA.

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I'm lucky enough to do what I like, even if I was making more money at Lotos Club than here.

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Mr. Barsky also confirmed his company is interested in acquiring the 53% stake Poland's government holds in the country's second-largest refiner Grupa Lotos SA.

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Its attempts to sell controlling stakes in companies such as smaller utilities Energa SA and Enea SA, which together could net $5 billion, or in crude oil refiner Grupa Lotos SA have gone less smoothly, however, for reasons including antitrust concerns and the ministry's tough purchasing conditions.

Poland Steps up Push on Asset Sales Marynia Kruk 2011

I met him once at an Authors Guild event at the Lotos Club in Manhattan and he was as charming as I expected.

Krishna 2008

“Mark Twain, the Lotos Club Dinner,” New York Times, November 17, 1900; quoted at www.twainquotes.com.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Howells swept Clemens up into the Anti-Imperialist crusade, introducing him at a Lotos Club dinner on November 10 as the ascendant satirist laureate of the country.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Clemens traveled to New York, where on August 6 he watched from the Lotos Club as the catafalque, drawn by a line of black horses, passed by, en route from the train station to City Hall.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

It would be always after dinner in that society, as, in the land of the Lotos-eaters, it was always afternoon; and food, which, when we have it not, seems all-important, drops in our esteem, as soon as we have it, to a mere prerequisite of living.

Lay Morals 2005