"Lote" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sorts of arguments. No answer being volunteered, they shouted to their women to await them, and betook themselves to walking with the party. One of the three ambassadors, a graceful rogue of twenty-five, marked all over with rocoa and lote, so as to earn for himself the nickname of "the Panther," gamboled and caracoled in front of the procession as if to give it an entertainment. His two comrades had garroted with their arms the neck of the chief interpreter: ...
— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, No. 23, February, 1873, Vol. XI. • Various
... q{u}am u it findes witterlike. He slagen [be] and we agen driuen. 375 Jn{}to raldom eu{er}mor to liuen. He gan hem ransaken on and on. And fond it or sone a{}non. And nam o breere eu{er}ilk on. And ledde hem sorful a{}gon. 380 And brogte hem bi{}for iosep. Wid reweli lote and sorwe and wep. o q{u}at iosep ne wiste ge nogt. at ic am o wol witter ogt. Mai nogt longe me ben for{}holen. 385 Q{u}at{}so{}eu{er}e on londe wur stolen. Lou{er}d q{u}ad judas do wi me. Q{u}at{}so i ...
— Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 - Part I: Texts • Various
... favoured me and fled, * 'By Allah picture him nor add nor 'bate in least degree!' Replied the Dream, 'I leave him though he die of thirst,' I cry, * 'Stand off from water-pit and say why this persistency.' Rained tear-pearls her Narcissus-eyes, and rose on cheek belit * She made my sherbet, and the lote with bits ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... the infusion of the leaves for washing the dead (ibid. ii. 105): this is especially the use of the "Ber" in India, where the leaves are superstitiously held peculiarly pure. Our dictionaries translate "Sidr" by "Lote-tree"; and no wonder that believers in Homeric writ feel their bile aroused by so poor a realisation of the glorious myth. The Homerids probably alluded ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton |
