Being by nature a lotus-eater, I hope to avoid this fate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference

The fabled lotus-eater wished never to leave the isle whence he had plucked it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference

About it were chairs and divans that would have satisfied a lotus-eater.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Can't Have Everything] Reference

If one has been a lotus-eater all summer, he must turn gravel-eater in the fall and winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter Sunshine] Reference

All this has its delightful aspect; and he who would view a lotus-eater in his paradise should watch an.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay] Reference

The fog lifted and I've been living the life of a lotus-eater -- but now I've got to go back into the fog.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tyranny of Weakness] Reference

Foolish we may often be, yet we cannot accept this Gethsemane for a garden of the gods; the most wilful lotus-eater must perforce see the streaming tears, the stain of blood, the shadow of death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little] Reference

Looking back later upon that fateful night, it seemed to Stella that she must indeed have slept the sleep of the lotus-eater, for no misgivings pierced the numb unconsciousness that held her through the still hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lamp in the Desert] Reference

Turning into a dark doorway, the woman switched light into an electric dome, illuminating an interior apartment transformed, by a wildly original taste in eccentric decoration, into a lounging room of such distressful uniquity that it would have bred unrest in the soul of a lotus-eater.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day of Days An Extravaganza] Reference

"I am no lotus-eater by nature," he went on with energy, "and so I fought and conquered it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Centaur] Reference

To lie there careless of everything, quiet and warm, and with no weight upon the mind, to hear the clinking of the plates in the far-off kitchen as the scullion rinsed them and put them by; to watch the soft shadows come and go upon the ceiling as the sun came out or went behind a cloud; to listen to the pleasant murmuring of the fountain in the court below, and the shaking of the bells on the horses 'collars and the clink of their hoofs upon the ground as the flies plagued them; not only to be a lotus-eater but to know that it was one's duty to be a lotus - eater.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way of All Flesh] Reference

'He has the look of a lotus-eater.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conan Chronicles]

His was not the temperament of the lotus-eater.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Vanished Hand] Reference

"He has the look of a lotus-eater.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bloody Crown of Conan]