The shop was a little hut with an earthen floor, a pair of scales, and one shelf crowded with brass things, made, not for the European market, but for the daily use of the people, such as drinking-vessels-lota is the pretty name-and big brass plates out of which they eat their rice and dhalbat.
"Olivia in India"
O. Douglas
But if this somebody had gone into the thicket, bobbing his head to avoid the prickly, wreath-like branches, he would have found on the other side only one person, little lota Bird, playing all alone with her dolls.
"Nine Little Goslings"
Susan Coolidge
"Lady Bird" Nursey called lota, because when, six years before, Papa fetched her home from China, she wore a speckled frock of orange-red and black, very much the color of those other tiny frocks in which the real lady-birds fly about in summer-time.
"Nine Little Goslings"
Susan Coolidge