Word: nectareous
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Soon the Chief was hopping and strutting gleefully with a silver-headed cane from Bond Street, presented by the Duke and Duchess. Grateful, he prepared for them a bowl of the sacred nectar kava, "by drinking which the Chief is brought near and like unto his people." When this potent beverage had been mixed, stirred, and the more solid ingredients pounded in a great bowl, the Chief personally strained it through a filter of woven bark, saying: "This make kava very nice. This take out all the grit." The Duke, no weakling, downed a huge swallow of kava. Thereafter, although...
...There are those who, having attained "Oneness with Brahma," would discover soup-stains on that one's waistcoat ; who, sitting on a lotus flower in the selfless Nirvana of Buddha, would find withered petals ; who, wandering deified through the Greek Elysian Fields, would discover a fly in Hebe's nectar; or who, reading that perfect periodical TIME, would stumble over idiosyncrasies...
...Vagabond has often been denounced as a mere aesthetic dilettante, an intellectual butterfly flitting from lecture hall to lecture hall, and sipping nectar from the more exotic flowers of the curriculum. This morning I intend to free myself forever from this imputation, for the early hour of 9 o'clock will see me hurrying to Emerson J, there to hear Dr. Prescott lecture in Education B on Mental Conflicts...
Here * is a five-star, sporting-final edition of Utopia?subject, of course, to instant change without notice. All previous Utopias are cancelled; this is the very latest model?2,000 rooms, 2,000 baths and running iced nectar on every floor...
With failing breath their nectar sips...