Literary notes about Luscious (AI summary)
The word luscious is deployed with remarkable versatility in literature, often summoning images of rich natural abundance and vivid sensory pleasure. In works where botanical descriptions prevail, the term accentuates the ripe sweetness of fruits and the enticing quality of foods—evoking tastes and scents that seem tangible to the reader’s senses [1, 2]. In settings that celebrate the beauty of nature, luscious elevates landscapes into paradisiacal realms, transforming orchards and verdant scenery into symbols of overwhelming opulence [3, 4]. Moreover, its use extends into more charged, erotic portrayals, where the adjective intensifies physical desire and intimate allure with a luxurious, almost tactile, quality [5].
- All the sweet and luscious sorts, whether manured or wild, do help to move the belly downwards, more or less.
— from The Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper - O Pandavas, till ye meet with Arjuna, do ye stay here, partaking of luscious fruits, and the food of the Munis.
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 - There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum - There are luscious figs also, and olives in full growth.
— from The Odyssey by Homer - Then laying her limbs wide open, with knees bent, the magnificence of that luscious cunt lay in all its grandeur before me.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous