The deli has ambrosia for sale. From LearnThat.org.
It's funny how ambrosia is a totally different thing here (and in Portugal as well). From Wordnik.com. [My Ambrosia] Reference
These are called ambrosia-beetles, because of the dainty food they eat. From Wordnik.com. [Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies] Reference
A more refined period demanded more refined food for the gods, such as ambrosia and nectar, but these also were finally given up. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference
A more refined period demanded more refined food for the gods, such as ambrosia and nectar, but these also were finally given up. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
"We shall expect ambrosia," laughed Lady Esmondet. From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
I am ambrosia and death, the existing and the non-existing. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
Spread thickly on warm rye bread, it was ambrosia for the soul. From Wordnik.com. [Jay Weston: The Atkins "Schmaltz" Diet: Memories of Jewish Food!] Reference
I'm going to do an ambrosia, the way my grandmother used to make it. From Wordnik.com. [Aretha Franklin Gives Christmas A Soulful Twist] Reference
Their food is ambrosia and nectar; their movements are swift as light. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Beauty, meaning and pleasure don't appear to be this crowd's ambrosia. From Wordnik.com. [Got Game, Will Travel] Reference
After their long diet of shrimps, it tasted like ambrosia to the two men. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
I had heard of it as I had heard of manna or of ambrosia, but no further. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
Mr. Emerson comes sometimes, and has been feasted on our nectar and ambrosia. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
The thought plagues us, intruding on the perfect ambrosia of salt air and suntan lotion. From Wordnik.com. [LETTER FROM FRANCE: CALL ME IN SEPTEMBER] Reference
But by noon my hunger was such that any state of anything edible was as nectar and ambrosia. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Calypso greeted her visitor kindly, bade him be seated, and set nectar and ambrosia before him. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Odyssey] Reference
By day she fed him with ambrosia, and by night covered him with celestial fire, to render him immortal. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
Nor can one (like thee) obtain strength (from such food), nor that gratification which ambrosia offers. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
It has the aroma of nectar and ambrosia; this does not say to us, "Provision yourselves for three days.". From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
No, for she would neither touch bread nor cake; she is used to licking ambrosia at the table of the gods. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
My words spill onto the page like ambrosia, nectar of the gods, filling an empty vessel with immortal life. From Wordnik.com. [Genius] Reference
TRYGAEUS No, for she would neither touch bread nor cake; she is used to licking ambrosia at the table of the gods. From Wordnik.com. [Peace] Reference
I will forswear ambrosia altogether, and to the end of my days feed on millet with the peasants in the Vale of Tempe. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
And there in this dim, ghostly Walhalla they sit like the Grecian gods, and drink mead instead of ambrosia and nectar. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
In the world it is necessary to have the appearance of living on ambrosia and of being acquainted with only noble cares. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
Acropolis with an owl perched upon her helmet; on your head she was pouring out ambrosia, on that of Cleon garlic pickle. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
Nectar and ambrosia, served from jewelled plate, could not have offered more temptation to the appetite of the weary group. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
She drank in the trills and flourishes of the selection which her friend had chosen as though the notes were golden ambrosia. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge] Reference
These are cherubs rioting in health, smiling old men, benignant matrons, radiant maidens, all feasting on nectar and ambrosia. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
It is not necessary to feed on ambrosia in order to become divine; nor shall one be accursed, though he drink of the ninefold Styx. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
The growth of this ambrosia-like fungus is induced and controlled by the parent beetles, and the young are dependent upon it for food. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
So the gods, satiated with nectar and ambrosia, disdain, as gross and impure, all the dainties of the most luxurious table upon earth. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
I never shall forget my sensations as I stood with face upturned, while the big drops, more delicious than ambrosia, came pelting down. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
They who had practised penances and observed excellent vows for amrita now seemed to be eager seekers after amrita (celestial ambrosia). From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
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