| 单词 | white lily |
| 例句 | If the nilas is disturbed by wind, the ice forms rounded discs called pancakes, which look something like white lily pads with their edges turned up. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z In every one, where he showed up to tell her she was going to have the baby of babies, even though she wasn’t married yet, he had a big white lily for her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know where Max got those curtains, but the material is dark and thick with white lilies printed on it, and I know immediately what they’re for. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Whose idea was it to draw a single rose in the center of all these white lilies? A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Albert’s coffin, covered in a deep pile of white lilies, was carried in a nineteenth-century glass-enclosed hearse, rumoured to have come from the Queen’s own stables. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The weight vanished, replaced by a thin silver chain from which hung a white lily made of the same kind of glass as my slippers. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The funeral home smelled of old hardwood, lemon furniture polish, and white lilies and gardenias. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Handed a white lily, she leaves it on the floor and exits. Review: These Rites of Spring Push Back at Ruthlessness 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z I wasn’t crazy; a few weeks later, a new playlist of hers popped up titled “have I misread this? I hope not,” accompanied by a picture of white lilies. I Bet You Think These Songs Are About You 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Huber said his creation was inspired by the grand balls Mrs. Astor held and has notes of American Beauty roses — her favorite — as well as yellow daffodils, white lilies, and apple and cherry blossoms. Wednesday’s Travel News and Tips 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z A dying woman asks a man to bury her and wait 100 years for her return — as a white lily. Review: A Japanese Writer’s Reveries Inspire ‘Four Nights of Dream’ 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Just an enormous bouquet of white lilies that scented the entrance. On the Runway Blog: Ralph Lauren: Black, White and Red All Over 2013-09-12T17:17:34Z The white lilies on the kitchen table were silk, the fiddle-leaf fig plant in the corner of the family room was plastic. How Kevin Durant Became Silicon Valley’s Hottest Start-up 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z If you are looking for the Monet effect of pastel pink, yellow and white lilies floating on the surface, the hardy lilies are for you. Perspective | The magical, mystical waterlily: A guide to varieties both hardy and tropical 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z The apartment was dense, dramatic, and opulent, with tassels here, inlaid cabinets there, splashes of leopard-spot upholstery and great white lilies wrought in Victorian embroidery. AD Remembers Fashion and Design Icon Oscar de la Renta 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Page took time to get the layout right: a rectangular pool, with floating lotus and white lilies in summer, surrounded by pea gravel paths and boxwood. The Case Against a Mammoth Frick Collection Addition 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z They left her cremains in front of multiple wreaths and a photo of her, with a smile as bright as the white lily she held and the streak of purple in her hair. Column: Laughter and tears as family and friends remember Gloria Molina one last time 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z Further down the hill, candle wax oozes down on to the stems of white lilies resting against a thin tree. Serbia school attack: Silence and teddies at scene of shooting 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Nellie is a “short, owlish woman. … almost dwarfed by the enormous bouquet of white lilies and pink roses that was thrust into her arms.” Kate Atkinson dazzles with ‘Shrines of Gaiety’ 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z “You’re on this giant white lily pad,” Scambos says, “and your only reference is that you’re used to having the sun in a certain place at a certain time of day.” Antarctica’s Collapse Could Begin Even Sooner Than Anticipated 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z The site is now marked by a small plaque where, on a recent day, a bouquet of white lilies had been placed with a card addressed: “To her late majesty.” An Aussie republic? In queen’s namesake town, they won’t drink to that. 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z At Buckingham Palace, 22-year-old student Adam Wilkinson-Hill arrived with a bunch of white lilies on behalf of himself and a group of his friends who could not be in the capital. Tearful crowds sing 'God Save the Queen' at Buckingham Palace 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Large funeral wreaths with red roses and white lilies lined the hall, along with more photographs of Dugina. Russians at Daria Dugina memorial push for tougher action against Ukraine 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z They pushed her into the viewing room, where the windows were layered with translucent adhesives: white lilies, green leaves, blue water that mimicked stained glass. Seeing Sierra one last time 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z This is usually hyper-literal, such as the lilium candidum, or white lily. The very specific rules for naming your houseplants, according to scientists 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Cyrus, back in Seattle by then, met her at the airport with a bouquet of white lilies and red roses. ‘I can’t believe I’m here.’ Iranian couple reunite after years separated by travel ban 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z By April 10, an Easter display of white lilies and green palms will take their place. This spring, take a stroll through gardens, embassies and historic homes 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z On the second day of the retreat, at 7 a.m., everyone gathered in the living room, where the tables were covered in white lilies. A New Luxury Retreat Caters to Elderly Workers in Tech (Ages 30 and Up) 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z A family lawyer told the children, “There were no absolutely white lilies here on either side.” The Family That Built an Empire of Pain 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z “I’m out of my mind just thinking about it. It’s Toronto,” said Augustino Speciale, who paused to smell a bouquet of white lilies attached to a lamppost. Toronto police delving into life of gunman in mass shooting 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z “I’m out of my mind just thinking about it. It’s Toronto,” said Augustino Speciale, who paused to smell a bouquet of white lilies attached to a lamppost. Toronto police delving into life of gunman in mass shooting 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z There were also white lilies and chrysanthemums, pink carnations, roses, variegated ivy and camellia foliage in larges vases either side of the altar in Westminster Abbey. Harry and Meghan choose wedding flowers 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z A bowl of exclusively yellow M&Ms. A room filled with white lilies. Jason Derulo: 'People are craving a new music show' 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z It rather resembles a white lily, with three layers of petals, called “whorls.” The earliest flower ancestor had both male and female parts 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Also, Joseph held white lilies to represent his goodness and obedience to God. Medora man builds religious shrine outside his home 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z People were setting white lilies and pink roses next to teddy bears in front of a rainbow flag and an American flag. Across the world, shock and condemnation at Orlando massacre 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z A bunch of chrysanthemums are a no-go area for the Spanish, because they are associated with death, much in the same way you wouldn't present a bunch of white lilies to a Briton. The perils of 'taboo' gifts 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Kerry placed a large, leafy wreath, made up of red roses and carnations and white lilies, on a tripod in front of the store. Secretary of State Kerry spends mournful day in Paris after terrorist assaults 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Accompanied by Mr. Fabius, Mr. Kerry presented a wreath made of red roses and white lilies, which rested on a tripod and bore a sash saying “United States of America.” Kerry Travels to Paris to Show Solidarity After Terror Attacks 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z My favorite entree was called white prawn: seven jumbo shrimp tossed with long slices of cooked yet still crunchy celery and white lily buds, the last of which were crisp-tender with a slightly nutty flavor. A Review of Moonstone in Great Neck 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Colours are becoming brighter, after decades of white lilies, pale roses and misty paintings of garden gates or ships setting sail. Greetings cards: The American way of death 2013-06-27T15:06:41Z He will walk a few steps down the center aisle of the banquet room, growl at the guests, then open his mouth to reveal a bouquet of white lilies. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z On the table beside him is a vase of white lilies, which many persons averred were so natural that the birds flew down the cathedral aisles to peck at the flowers. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z Foul, foul sped the bullet that clipped the white lily, The flower of our knighthood, the whole army's pride! In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding 2012-03-26T02:00:41.847Z And they reared her into fulgent maidenhood, as a white lily is reared on a fragile stem. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z Upon the lid was a cluster of white carnations from Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and at the foot were two crossed palms with white lilies. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z I shall never forget the thrill of delight I felt on first beholding this noble white lily, some years ago, in an open fir forest near Mt. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Maria herself took some of the seed, and scattered it; and immediately there sprang up at her feet white lilies and cloves of every hue. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z He raised his mournful eyes toward the deep-blue sky, where the stars were floating, like white lilies, on the surface of a clear, calm lake. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z "I went to the meadow Day after day, To gather the blossoms Of April and May, And there was Mercedes, Always there, Sweetest white lily That breathes the air." Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z I could smell the white lilies where I sat. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z They are the flowers for Mozart, are they not?" said Mademoiselle—"heliotrope and white lilies; and we have been studying Mozart this morning. The Front Yard 2012-01-09T03:00:23.183Z By-the-way, you seemed to wish to have that curious little wild Bohemian air I sang the other night, ‘The Wanderer's Bride’—the song about the white lily, you know. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z The leaves that touch my hand with dew are wet; I find the tall white lilies I love well. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z Some brought roses, red and white and yellow; some brought heavy white lilies; some brought long trails of honeysuckle. Fairies I Have Met 2011-12-10T03:00:13.687Z Then, these huge white lilies, deep as goblets, from which one drinks fragrance, and never exhausts,—these thousand unknown jewels of the tropics. A Trip to Cuba 2011-12-05T03:00:49.610Z Big pink and white lilies stood in their short-lived bravery near the fountain, and amid these wild lilies lay bleached bones and pieces of torn cloth. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z Saint Agnes and her lamb was followed by a flock of pretty young children all in white, carrying tall white lilies that filled the air with their fragrance. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z Another cuerpo is that of the Azucenas, or white lilies, so called on account of its architectural urns, with ironwork flower decorations. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z A family of tall white lilies in pots were gathered together in one of the further windows. Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:31.283Z Flowering plants are comparatively rare; they include orchids and a beautiful white lily. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Did he give you 'There is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies grow,' for Julius is more light-hearted in such matters than you are, dear mouse. Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z If there were no innocent hearts there would be no white lilies.... Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z Under these brackets are the Ghibelline and Guelph arms; the former is a white lily on a red ground, the latter a red lily on a white ground, quartered with the crescent of Fiesole. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Fitful gleams of sunshine cast loving touches here and there on the roses and the sweet honeysuckle; and the tall white lilies never looked fresher or smarter. The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy 2011-09-18T02:00:22.467Z By means of a spring the lion's breast opened and from it fell sheaves of white lilies, the emblem of France. The Strange Story Book 2011-09-15T02:00:13.747Z In the centre was a hammock of silver cobweb, swinging by jewelled chains from the crossed stems of two tall white lilies, under a bower of maiden-hair ferns. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z They went through the forest, and suddenly she saw a beautiful white lily growing in their very path. The Swedish Fairy Book 2011-08-26T02:00:23.380Z The roof was raftered, each rafter painted with white lilies on a red ground, and heads of youths and damsels; and the roof outside was made of wooden tiles, shaped like shells and gilded. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z A choir and orchestra dressed in blue and adorned with white lilies accompanied the mass. Pope tells 1.5 million youngsters to spread gospel 2011-08-21T09:52:38Z Love looked up and saw the Princess standing in a cluster of white lilies. The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales 2011-08-06T02:00:04.530Z And roses, and white lilies, and numberless other flowers are never wanting in that country. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z When the tar began to boil, the old man said: "Now throw your white lily into the kettle." The Swedish Fairy Book 2011-08-26T02:00:23.380Z But one evening she wandered further than usual, and saw on a bank, at the edge of a cornfield, five big white lilies blowing. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z If this had occurred, the change for Paris from the red dominion of the Commune to the white lilies, with all they signified, would have been another strikingly dramatic episode in the chronicles of France. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z "There are tropical lilies which are venomous, but they are more beautiful than the frail and icy white lilies of the North." Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z II Or, haply, 'tis a Naiad now who slips, Like some white lily, from her fountain's glass, While from her dripping hair and breasts and hips The moisture rains cool music on the grass. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z Yet over all the mistakes made by her through defective taste and obstinate unwisdom, the beauty of Dorothea's character stands out as did Romola's—like a "white lily" in the garden. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z The wild white lily had opened, and behold the stain! The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z That Sultan was passing near Lala's cottage, and weeping; he was weeping so, and weeping, that his tears fell on the road, and wherever a tear fell a white lily sprang up right away. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z When the two with the blue and the white lilies saw their sister on the shore and her clothes gone, they began to laugh and make sport of her. Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 2011-06-29T02:00:25.760Z Then one night she had a dream:—She met on the top of a high mountain a glorious company of angels, clothed in white, with chaplets of white lilies. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z The white curtains flap idly in and out at the windows; a white and yellow butterfly comes in to light among the pink roses and white lilies in the glass dish on the table. Zoe; Or, Some Day A Novel 2011-06-11T02:00:13.290Z But while I consider these buds better they seem rather to be white lilies.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The masses of pure white lily and cool green foliage below are fine against the dark, solid greenery of the Yew, and the brilliant flowers above are like little jewels of flame. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Now see how that beautiful stem of white lilies is choked and covered up. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z O blood-red blossoms of war, with your heart of fire, deeper than glow and crimson you unfold the white lilies of Christ! A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z Her pure maidenly thoughts had hovered round it timidly, as a shadow haunts a white lily, but she was content with the perfume, without daring to touch the flower. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z The blue campanula of the mountain in reverence bowed its head; the great white lily distilled incense from its deep heart; the cicala shrilled aloud; the Forsaken Bird gave a long note from the thicket. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z He stands in a field, utters His words, pointing to some pure white lilies blooming, but not in abundance, in the field. A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z The white lilies were pure and shining virtues; the imagery of the Song of Songs was obvious and perfect and unassailable, for in this world there was nothing common nor unclean. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z His white lily should never go through the mire of a divorce court, nor must lack of money stand between her and the man of her choice. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z Only in the midst of all these ashes there grew a splendid, fresh, fragrant white lily. Caucasian Legends 2011-03-17T02:00:14.137Z Medicine Man, make me a sure medicine, A strong medicine, new to our people, That shall ease my weary eyes Of a red bird and a white lily. The Fire Bird 2011-02-07T03:00:26.667Z So that afternoon she mused what she would do as, sitting in the garden of her cottage, she made a wreath of white lilies. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z The student needs not to be told that this poet, born in 1772, the year after Gray's death, bore the white lilies of pure literature till 1834, when he too entered into his rest. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z A graceful little Hebe danced upon the handle, three names shone along the fretted brim, and three white lilies rose from the slender vase,—fit emblems of the maiden founders of the league. Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z And that frivolous-looking boy charged through and broke the Standard—the great white lilies of Florence—off from the famous 'Carroccio.' The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z When she wakes up in her canopied bed, she has the Georgia O’Keeffe white lily painting on the wall to her right, and the Mondrian study on the left. Artworks Are This 90-Year-Old's Best Friend 2010-09-30T13:40:00Z Along with the rosary beads, religious texts and blazingly white lilies, the tranquillity itself proclaims moral seriousness. | Connecticut: ?Reunited Masterpieces? at the Wadsworth Atheneum 2010-04-10T00:59:00Z At the company's China headquarters in Beijing's university district, a dozen locals laid a bouquet of red roses and white lilies on Google's sign at the company entrance. 2010-01-13T07:21:00Z "Eh! come now, my white lily," he persisted. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 These were the white lilies, but one of the Sisters died, and we made a cross. Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame So time passed, and she was unconscious of it, until a shadow falling over the great white lilies warned her that some one was near. Love Works Wonders A Novel Hers was the loveliness of some tall white lily cut in marble, splendid but chill. The Valiants of Virginia Tall white lilies still bloomed in the village gardens, and geraniums were beginning to show their scarlet glory. The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life The face reminded him of an old altar-piece in the cathedral representing the Virgin Mary standing in a garden of stiff white lilies and short-stalked crimson roses. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers I saw like pale Madonnas The tall white lilies blow. In a Belgian Garden and Other Poems They rested for a minute on the captain's face, and then, with a dreamy look, she glanced over the heads of the white lilies behind him. Love Works Wonders A Novel And in that stream flourished a beautiful white lily whose petals opened and smiled at will. A Bed of Roses The ordinary jimson weed grew so large that each blossom looked like a great white lily. The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines Georgie, in her wedding garments, looking like some pale white lily, is indeed "passing fair." Faith and Unfaith It was no easy task, nor did he find him readily, but at last he came upon him leaning out of a window and gazing at a white lily which he held in his hand. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life The garden path widened where the tall white lilies grew in rich profusion, and there Pauline and Captain Langton walked side by side. Love Works Wonders A Novel I used to think you very like a big white lily. A Bed of Roses Beneath her window grew white lilies, wafting her with their fragrance. The Shadow Wreath, delicately bound of roses and white lilies intertwined, thou shalt for the last time adorn my anxious brow. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) In an instant the grove was transformed into a garden of white lilies dancing under the leaves of the trees, or as some said, "into a snow-covered field." The Story of Chautauqua The star-like jessamine and scarlet creepers gave to the walls of the old mansion a vivid glow of color; gold and purple enriched the gardens, heavy white lilies breathed faintest perfume. Love Works Wonders A Novel On the occasion last mentioned, when we entered the building, full of hopeless sorrow, we saw pulpit and altar adorned with a rich violet pall, on which, at intervals, hung wreaths of white lilies. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 And she placed in her hair a wreath of white lilies, of which every flower leaf was half a pearl. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series You will be soon—a strong pink rose instead of a white lily—because there's the most gorgeous news to-day. The Brightener The fragrance of the white lilies in the garden blew through the hall. Old Friends and New A breath of fragrant wind came and stirred the great white lilies. Love Works Wonders A Novel As for the rotten chair and the white lilies, the first was thy brother Lionel, who is a murderer and an untrue knight; while the lilies were the knight and the lady. Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality She wore a white lily in her yellow locks. The Flower Princess The Flower Princess; The Little Friend; The Mermaid's Child; The Ten Blowers Instead of crust a peacock pie, Instead of bone sweet venison, Instead of groat a white lily With seven blooms thereon. Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems The steps before Sant' Antonio's shrine are half buried under the great white lilies that bear his name, and the tall dark angels that keep guard about his tomb bear sceptres of fresh lilies. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. She was pure and spotless as the white lilies standing near her; the breath of love had never passed over her. Love Works Wonders A Novel But I knew it, I felt it, for last night I dreamed a white lily was growing out of my basin, and this is the fulfilment of the dream. St. Peter's Umbrella It was the time of wistarias and wild white lilies, of the last yellow jas-mines and the first Cherokee roses. Strangers and Wayfarers She was like a new grown wet white lily pod in the dawn of the year. The "Genius" Ah, those pure white lily fingers, Once again could I but kiss them, Press them close against my heart, Melt away in silent weeping! Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine The motion loosened a delicate white lily pinned at her throat, and it fell upon the palette, sullying its purity with the dark paint to which its petals clung. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies grow; A heavenly paradise is that place. Language of Flowers Lady Erskine looked very beautiful; her dress was of pale blue velvet, superbly trimmed with white lace; she wore diamonds in her hair, and carried a bouquet of white lilies in her hand. A Mad Love You look like a tall, white lily to-night, with your white dress and your gleaming hair. Under False Pretences A Novel And from the moss white lilies rise, Of spring the fairest sweetest prize; Their bells in tuneful measure Ring in the May with pleasure. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. A poet might add, by an analogy drawn from the connexion of light and colour, that there is a ‘golden dawn’ issuing out of the white lily, in the rich yellow of the stamens. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Pure as white lilies in a watery space, It were something, though you went from me to-day. Poems When Miss Anthony, as vice-president-at-large, took the chair after Mrs. Stanton's departure, a great bouquet of white lilies was presented to her. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years When we reached Third Avenue, Eunice stopped before a florist's window, and we looked in at a cluster of great white lilies. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself Destiny has brought forth from the mire of our sin a beautiful blossom, a sweet white lily. The Grandee She was very tall, one of those cool, gray-eyed, ivory-skinned brunettes who always remind the beholder of white lilies blooming in the dark. The Co-Citizens The great rooms had become a dream of paradise, with silver rain and white lilies in a mist of soft green depending from the high ceilings. Exit Betty The child in the garden resembles the dead Bell as one white lily does another. Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It He sends you by me a red rose for your love, a white lily for your chastity, purple violets to strew your grave, and green palms to flourish over it.’ Callista : a Tale of the Third Century I remember that he had tall white lilies and scarlet passion flowers, or something like them, held above one shoulder, and floating like a banner in the bright, white air. The Gates Between Her dress, of rose colored silk, was misty with delicate lace that shaded her neck and arms like gossamer on white lilies. A Noble Woman Languid, sad, yet not rebellious or sulky, her beautiful girl stood drooping like a white lily in the stern old frame of the window. Angelot A Story of the First Empire On the afternoon of the memorial service the frame of the portrait was draped with smilax, entwining bunches of violets from South Carolina, and beneath stood a jar of great white lilies.... The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The woman he had fancied her was a spotless white lily. The Dominant Strain But the most beautiful offering there was a basket of delicate silver wire filled with fragrant pure white lilies sent by Emma Cavendish to Alden Lytton. Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend You looked like a shining white lily among all those handsome, overblown Rhaetian women.” The Princess Virginia She was what the Countess Biron had likened her to when the photograph was shown––a white lily, slender, blonde, with the peculiar and attractive combination of hazel eyes and hair of childish flaxen color. The Bondwoman It was all covered with great white lilies and their green pads. Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad Ah low he sings, ah sadly, Fainting with sweetest pain; O lily, snow white lily, Hear'st thou the dying strain? The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 "I will tell you," said a tall, graceful white lily that grew near the garden gate, one day, as she inclined her fair head toward them. Harper's Young People, July 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly The tiny lawn was smooth as velvet, and a row of tall white lilies, flanked with fragrant lavender, filled up the one narrow bed that ran by the side of the privet hedge. Lover or Friend Out of that obnoxious mud of iniquity were growing the pure white lilies of Christian character. Heart Talks Then he drank, and looked at the garden ablaze with flowers—blush-roses and damask roses, and sweet-williams and candytuft, white lilies and yellow lilies, pansies, larkspur, poppies, bergamot, and sage. Harding's luck "He had got a good haul o' fish, anyway—if he was ever so!—and we aint none of us white lilies." Say and Seal, Volume II There—amongst thorns and weeds— Cheap herbs and coleworts, with the common seeds Of chesboule or tame poppies, he did sow, And vervain with white lilies caused to grow. Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II "I saw her in her coffin, with a white lily in her hand." The End of the Rainbow There lay a bunch of beautiful white lilies, nestling in a mass of delicate moss-like green. Soap-Bubble Stories For Children Zosia threw over her head a white gown, and rolled up a little white handkerchief in her hand, and thus, all in white, she looked like a white lily herself. Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 "I'll creep into the heart of the white lily and beg it to shelter me." Say and Seal, Volume II Where the white lilies quiver By the sedge in the river, I fly in and out, I hunt all about; For I am the daring kingfisher, kingfisher! The Nursery, June 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 6 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers On the couch lay her fair form, pale as the white lily which floats on the blue water, and beautiful as Eos when her light dies out of the sky in the evening. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies show; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature On the ruined stems of my white lilies I find a portion covered with a scrap of green skin. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Foul, foul sped the bullet that clipped the white lily, The flower of our knighthood, the whole army’s pride! How the Flag Became Old Glory As he spoke, he placed a green wreath upon Rosemary's head and gave her a white lily, on a long stem. Master of the Vineyard It is no strange, unreal story of the wilderness day, this fluttering in and out of a little life, where no rosewood grew for coffins nor florists made broken columns of white lilies and immortelles. Winning the Wilderness Here is one picture of the human world: An unreaped field and Death, the harvester, Taking his rest beside a gathered sheaf Of poppy and white lilies. Pan and Æolus: Poems We still love most of all the white violets we have as children picked in an English wood, and even this great white lily will never supplant them in our affections. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty They approach the caravan; the young merchant sits pensive and motionless, thinking of his beautiful wife, dreaming, in the land of the blacks, of his white lily beyond the desert. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen There is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies grow; A heavenly paradise is that place Wherein all pleasant fruits doth flow. Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age Yes, and a future century jeers at the white lily. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales And then Polly got some white lilies, and I got some sweetbrier sprigs, and laid round her in the coffin. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 The bees hummed busily round the white lilies and the lavender, and on the warm turf of one of the narrow paths lay Archie Carroll. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 That would not do; she buried them in the depths of a wonderful white lily, and so sang the old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence. The Old Helmet, Volume I Fair is my Love, but scornful: Yet have I seen despisèd Dainty white lilies, and sad flowers well prizèd. Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age Only Esther was a white lily; the one I tried to describe, or did not try to describe, was a red one. A Red Wallflower She asked me if I didn't smell the clover-blows, how sweet they was; and then she talked about white lilies, and how she liked 'em most of anything, without it was sweetbriers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 It was the time of roses; and in the midst of their opulent bloom stood the tall white lilies, handmaidens to the queen. Aunt Jane of Kentucky They went down the last steps together, into the sea of white lilies and drifting fragrance, and disappeared into the darkness toward the back of the garden. The Windy Hill She was all clad in a tight riding-dress of green velour cloth, and her white face seemed to come from the close collar like a white lily from its sheath. A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales If I liken her to a lily, I do not mean those fair white lilies which painters throw at the feet of Franciscan monks, and dedicate also to the Virgin,—Annunciation lilies, so called. A Red Wallflower Fair wild-flowers crowned her tresses and her dainty little feet Were encased in two white lilies from the great lakes pure and sweet. Indian Legends of Minnesota She lay there like a white lily in the moonlight, but her lips were cold as marble and her eyes held the mute sorrow of despair, not the rapture of a granted joy. The Mystery of a Turkish Bath If I were a sunbeam, I know what I’d do: I would seek white lilies Rainy woodlands through: I would steal among them, Softest light I’d shed, Until every lily Raised its drooping head. Graded Memory Selections He was in the orchestra when Rachel played, and he heard Liszt play when the Countess d’Agoult sat in the stage box and threw the master white lilies. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Ruphelle seems to me like a little white lily of the valley, all pure and sweet, but I was no more fit to be with her than a prickly thistle. Aunt Madge's Story As Olympians, they lunched on the greensward carpeting the bank of a little inlet; while their shallop floated among tiny white lilies at their feet. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest Masses of pink lotus, white lilies, Victoria Regia, and other varieties of the lily family formed great patches of color on the miniature ponds that were their setting. Travels in the Far East Her creamy skin is as fair and flawless as the inner petals of a white lily. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 To the end of her days the scent of the white lily would bring back to her the feeling of actually living again through that first time of numbing grief. The Arbiter A Novel Somewhere near him, though he could not see it, a bosquet of heliotrope and white lilies sent an intoxicating fragrance into the air. "Unto Caesar" The renunciations of marriage are like white lilies—bloodless, impurely pure, as anæmic as the soul of a virgin, as cold as the face of a corpse. The Green Carnation The amber water rippled merrily over the rocky bars where the river was low, and in the still reaches it spread out broad and smooth, covered with white lilies and fringed with tall grasses. Days Off And Other Digressions Pistil, or Pistillum, is that part of a flower which projects directly from the centre, and is longer than the rest; we observe it in the white lily, fuchsia, honeysuckle, etc. The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling Hence the white lily in full beauty grows. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II His eyes tried to pierce the marble walls behind which there bloomed—stately and proud—a beautiful white lily. "Unto Caesar" "Oh, I don't know, Gracious, only it seems to me you are like a pure white lily bell, and I want to creep into your heart and live in its fragrance, but—" She stopped abruptly. The Right Knock A Story As that spring drew on towards summer, the blindest eyes could no longer refuse to see that the white lily had faded at last, and the star was going out. Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century The centre is much smaller than that of the white lily—not exceeding in diameter the third of an inch. The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling Thy bed shall be among the hyacinthus, Thy cradle built up with the petals of white lilies. A History of Nursery Rhymes Lilies, lilies, white lilies and yellow— Lilies, lilies, purple lilies and golden— Calla lilies, tiger lilies, lilies of the valley— Lilies, lilies, lilies— Bulb, bud and blossom— What made them lilies? The Book of Humorous Verse But shall I ever forget a-comin' into my kitchen on Easter Sunday, and seein' the sun shine in upon five pure white lilies! Bulbs and Blossoms But the day of white lilies was over. The Lost Girl The centre is formed similar to the white lily, but not so large. The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling It was a great, white, limitless field of dead white lily bloom, unbroken, unsullied, like the perfect damask of napery, purer in tone than virgin snow. The Heart of Unaga From each dimly seen column shot forth one of those slender-stemmed, flaming white lilies of light, such as had bloomed in Our Lady's garden, as the pasos moved blossoming through the streets. The Car of Destiny There on each mound stood one of the 'ugly flower pots,' but the pot itself was sunk in a bed of moss, and a lovely pure white lily raised its glorious head in the sunshine. Bulbs and Blossoms Around the necks of the cattle are white lilies, and from the horns droop garlands of many-colored flowers, freshly picked from the dewy grass. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 In this place may also be mentioned the curious deviation from the ordinary structure occasionally met with in Lilium candidum, and known in English gardens as the double white lily. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants The wedding cake was delicately ornamented with white satin ribbons, frosted silver and white lilies, and was forty-two yards round. The Magic Fishbone A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Miss Alice Rainbird, Aged 7 We made several handsome bouquets, and arranged one of syringas, white lilies, and the feathery green of the cedar, to be presented, in the name of the ladies, to the orator of the day. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 At twilight, past the fountain, I wandered in the park, And saw a closed white lily Sway on the liquid dark; And a fire-fly, perched upon it, Shone out its fitful spark. Stories in Verse The devoted Marney, carrying what appeared to be a bridal bouquet of white lilies and roses, dashed up just in time to make a last attempt to accompany her mistress. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Even as Indian ivory, if one stain it with sanguine dye, or where white lilies are red with many a rose amid: such colour came on the maiden's face. The Aeneid of Virgil There were some beautiful white lilies close by—lilies that might have come from the same plant as that one lying between the little girl's hands in church. Odd As a white lily among war correspondents, he was ever trusted. Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman "Our visit is nearly at an end, Sarah; how have you enjoyed it?" she asks, in an interval, during which Sarah is at her feet, sewing on more securely one of her white lilies. Molly Bawn You don't know what you mean to me, Diana—a star dropped out of heaven; the pure air of the veld I love; white lilies growing on a mountain top. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Sonya was like a white lily found growing in some underground dungeon. The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army Preceding the bride came her little niece, Miss Elizabeth Thackara, in a gown of white muslin, carrying a basket of white lilies. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. Saint Agnes and her lamb led a troop of pretty little girls carrying tall white lilies, filling the air with their sweetness. Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag The trim gardens blazing with hollyhocks and large white lilies, and the orchards with the apples shewing their rosy cheeks to the sun. The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year The borders were brilliant with vast sunflowers, white lilies, and blazing “red-hot pokers” tangled together in splendid profusion, a very type of richness and glory of life. The Daughters of Danaus Her appearance is as grand as you know, and on the day I speak of, in her simplified mourning, under those vaguely gleaming lambris, she looked as beautiful as a great white lily. The Path Of Duty To Scott, the very religion that he sought to question, was a pure white lily reverently to be placed beneath his microscope. The Brentons The Fairy Queen had a new carriage made from a petal of a white lily and drawn by two butterflies. Sandman's Goodnight Stories It was only by a chance that he had gathered a fair white lily instead of a desert poppy. A Soldier of the Legion The young soldier pulled up the faded linden-tree and hurled it into the Rhine, while on the newly-made grave he planted white lilies. Legends of the Rhine But on trying 'Lilium' in Loudon, I find no mention whatever of any wild branched white lily. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers Oh, red rose, wise rose, Silence for my sake, Nor drop to-night a petal light Lest my white lilies wake. The Dreamers And Other Poems In the burning noons, we hung suspended between two heavens, in our boat on glassy forest-pools, where now and then a shoal of white lilies rose and crowded out the under-sky. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 These little people had white caps, for all the world like the white lily blossoms that were bobbing up and down around them. Queer Stories for Boys and Girls Her ears are like roses and white lilies. The Lady Paramount They were all white—white roses, white lilies, snowdrops, chrysanthemums—all the flowers that are pure white without any color. A Girl in Ten Thousand "I am sure that she will like this tall white lily," said one of the children. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs And the small white lily of the valley, sheltered and concealed in its green leaves like a hidden tear of Joy, and almost as rare! The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Were his words part of one last graceful dream of the dynasty of the white lilies, or was his loyal submission made now to a Majesty not of France, not even of this world? Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls The coffin came presently on a hand-truck—a black velvet pall lay over it, and on the sombre cloth a wreath or two of white lilies. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers There never were such deep damask roses as hung over the trellis, there never were such flaming sunflowers, or pure white lilies as looked in at the sides. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes And he longed to see her holding masses of white lilies to her breast, as she walked all white in the white lily-garden. The Golden Silence "But you won't betray us to anybody?" she said, holding up, as if in prayer, her little hands, that looked like the delicate petals of the white lily. Dr. Dumany's Wife Pure white lilies sprang up on every side, and the odour of a million flowers filled all the rooms and corridors. A Chinese Wonder Book The listless black figure strayed through the sunshine down a walk between a mass of scarlet Oriental poppies on one side and a border of swaying white lilies on the other. August First Oh, come gentle spring, breathe soft on the flowers, And clothe them in raiments of beauty, The rose may reopen its petals in tears, And sunbeams unfold the white lily. The Poetry of Wales Above the little grave in the wood where he had been buried there suddenly sprang a white lily, remarkable for its beauty and the exquisite perfume it shed abroad. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 Lush white lilies line the pool Like laces limned on looking-glasses! Gentle Julia Constance might have been sister to Cordelia; she is one of the white lilies of womanhood. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country But it all corresponded, for she wuz the white lily herself, as tall, and fair, and queenly. Samantha at the World's Fair One of the recesses formed by the large chimney was turned into a leafy bower, the bells of white lilies fringing the green archway. Divers Women For instance, Davis place is situated close to a large pond covered with white lilies. The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside A deer when startled by the stealthy ounce,— A bird escaping from the falcon's trounce, Feels his heart swell as mine, when she Stands statelier, expecting me, Than tall white lilies be. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art In the leaf of the white lily there are as many as 60,000 of these openings in every square inch of surface and in the apple leaf not fewer than 24,000. Arbor Day Leaves A Complete Programme For Arbor Day Observance, Including Readings, Recitations, Music, and General Information These four red and white lilies make together the form of a Maltese cross, and between each of the arms is a purl rose with yellow centre and graduated blue petals. English Embroidered Bookbindings "They are put here to sell," said Mr. Lee, "and I know you will like that beautiful pink rose-bush a great deal better than a mirror—or that great white lily." Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy The walls were hung with paper covered with sheafs of white lilies; white fur rugs—wolf-skins and skins of polar bears—were strewn over the polished white floor. By the Light of the Soul A Novel In the spring this garden was a wonder of tulips and hyacinths and lilacs, of sweet daffodils and white lilies. The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York The candles were all lit and great bunches of white lilies gave forth a heavy scent. The Man and the Moment And when Mary went the next day to pray there, behold the grave was surrounded with white lilies, which grew from the stick and spread themselves in rows over the mound. I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross And, honey, what is stranger than all, I saw you there, and I thought the Blessed Virgin took a white lily out of her bosom, and laid it on your head, and smiled. May Brooke All the toilet articles were ivory and the furniture white, with decorations of white lilies and silver. By the Light of the Soul A Novel I said: "No, I can recall one that was greater than the white lilies." Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures Or, haply, 't is a Naiad now who slips, Like some white lily, from her fountain's glass, While from her dripping hair and breasts and hips, The moisture rains cool music on the grass. Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses You're wrong, it's not the violet, Nor yet this pure white lily: It is this straggling mignonette,— I know you think it silly,— But hear my story; then, perhaps, You'll freely grant me pardon. The Nursery, No. 107, November, 1875, Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers A few white lilies and evergreens were scattered among the lights which burned around it; and May knew that some young virgin had gone to her espousals in the kingdom of the LAMB. May Brooke As an example of flowers having a qualified or disagreeable import take the following:— Ragopargee.—The white lily. Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah In the province of Ylocos is found a large tree whose blossoms resemble the white lily, and taste like fish. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century He unlocked his arms, and stepping back she stood erect, like a fair white lily, needing no prop nor stay. The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century There was a border of white lilies about the altar, a sprinkling of early stars in the evening sky; solemn hush and sacred music within, and the cry of some stray night-bird without. Beth Woodburn He went and got some more water for a jug of white lilies that stood on the table, and began to put things a little straight—as if he were a woman. Prince Fortunatus The late roses and white lilies were in full bloom, the latter filling the air with a sweet odor and making a lovely background. The Cromptons Anon, the proud white lilies Were gathered one by one, Each to crown a festal Rarest under the sun. Debris Selections from Poems Charlie's white lily was too fair to be left to wither alone, and I knew Harcourt Manners would be worthy to win the prize. Uncle Max Arthur was watering the tall white lilies by the water-side and all was still with a hallowed silence they dared not break. Beth Woodburn If you should sow human seed inside the door of hell, some of it would yet come up white lilies. The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis The spring, with all its breath and bloom, Hath not so dear a flower, As the white lily's languid head Drooping beneath the shower; And health hath ever waken'd less Of deep and anxious tenderness. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827 Round her head she wore a wreath of white lilies, and in her hand she carried a bouquet of white flowers. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town I thought she looked more than ever like Charlie's white lily, only now there was a touch of colour on her face. Uncle Max Bee, who stood near her like a maid of honor to a queen, was dressed with her usual simplicity and taste, in a fine white crêpe, with a single white lily on her bosom. Ishmael Or, In the Depths At their feet rare flowers sprang up, crocuses and asphodels and white lilies; and the air was filled with the odor of orange blossoms. Hero Tales Contrary to his expectations, black was becoming to Katy, who looked like a pure white lily, as, leaning on Wilford's arm next day, she stood by the grave where they were burying her child. Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering He could have a circle of rose-buds, if he liked, outside; and a great white lily or camellia in the centre. Macleod of Dare The native flowers are not so rich as you would expect to find; but the white lilies of the water are as pretty as anywhere, and the flowering shrubs are beautiful. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East Oh, what a delicate white lily she was when we first brought her to our home; but after a while she was won from her sorrow, and grew into a maiden of great beauty. Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories "Thank you," and she took her seat like a queen on her throne, looking fair and gracious as any white lily. Red Money They all glanced at Miss Cresswell, who lay softly back in her chair like a white lily, gleaming and bejewelled, her pale face flushing under the scrutiny; Mrs. Grey was horrified. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel Her dress was of ferns and sweet grasses, her moccasins were of white lilies, on her head was a wreath of wild flowers, and in her hands were beautiful blossoms. The Child's World Third Reader There were also plenty of wild flowers of other sorts, such as scarlet and white lilies, larkspurs, eschscholtzias, evening primroses, and many others whose names I do not know. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months Thus we left the staid brother and sister quietly gratified by our call, and returning to Nieder Olang found the kellnerin of the now deserted inn awaiting us with a nosegay of stately white lilies. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 If I were a sunbeam, I know what I'd do; I would seek white lilies, Roaming woodlands through. McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader Instead of here and there on the pond, the whole country is covered with white lilies. Around The Tea-Table Plucking white lilies in a field I saw Fair women, laden with young Love's delight: Some sang, some danced; but all were fresh and bright. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series He was holding Christine's hand, and she stood as a white lily in the glow and color of his dark beauty. Scottish sketches He embodied, materialized, the wind, the voice of the sea, the angry, hot scent of certain flowers, of the white lily, the tuberose, the hyacinth. Flames He noticed the flowers at his feet, in the drenched grass which was already lifting up its battered stalks, and along the margins of the streams—deep blue colombines, white lilies, and yellow anemones. The Marriage of William Ashe No,—not roses; I've a whole page already; this great white lily, I think. Real Folks Though he can write There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies grow, he brings into his songs none of the dye and fragrance of flowers. The Art of Letters We begged that we might sit out here, which the priest gladly allowed, for the sight of the green grass and the tall white lilies standing amid was a mighty refreshment in the hot noontide. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 A friend in London went to call upon his young wife, his "white lily." Stage Confidences The green leaves forming the base were of transparent emerald, and the white lily which surmounted the stem blossomed out clearer than any crystal. Strange Visitors And I put out my rash hand, For I thought to draw to land The white lily. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. The white white lily blanched a paler white, For anger that she was not praised. The Poems of William Watson Two men in knee-breeches opened the double doors and they went in between golden grilles and rows of tall white lilies. The Beauty and the Bolshevist I see the mystery of the Resurrection in its beauty, and why white lilies are its deepest symbol. The Forgotten Threshold By the wayside many rare and beautiful ferns are to be seen; and in their seasons, the large white lilies of the country, hydrangeas, violets, orchids, and an endless variety of wild flowers. Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs Then cull white lilies for the graves Of Liberty's loquacious braves, And roses red. Black Beetles in Amber And out of the white lily leaves the Princess peeped too, and asked what was the matter. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 Upon the monument that bears her name, graven on a cross, amid a cluster of white lilies, is inscribed: "I thank my God upon every remembrance of thee." Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography Like a white lily that had begun to fade, that of Juliet had drawn the eyes of the curate, as the whitest spot always will. Paul Faber, Surgeon Little Boy Blue, blow a merry, sweet note, Over the pool where the white lilies float,— Fill out the sails of a little toy boat. The Court of Boyville Her eyelids will have turned to violets, Her bosom to white lilies, and her breath To roses. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 He stood on the opposite side of the little table, and in a glass between him and the girl a white lily and a rose, freshly cut, were emitting a sweet perfume. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes I went to the Madeleine at Easter time, all purple and white lilies, and fainted from trying to imagine ecstasy when the Host was raised.... The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections During the rainy season they are covered with ferns and orchids, while exquisite white lilies, larger than Easter lilies, dot the hillsides. The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) Instead of crust a peacock pie, Instead of bone sweet venison, Instead of groat a white lily With seven blooms thereon. Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume II. Then, these huge white lilies, deep as goblets, which one drinks fragrance from, and never exhausts,—these thousand unknown jewels of the tropic. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 We waded across bayous and ponds, where white lilies floated on the water and thronging lilac-flowers splashed the green marsh with color. Through the Brazilian Wilderness The tiny hands, as they peeped from beneath their long sleeves, looked like two white lilies intermingled with the thick clustering blossoms of the running rose. Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland From thicket now and thorn let violets spring, Now let white lilies drape the juniper, And pines grow figs, and nature all go wrong: For Daphnis dies. Theocritus, translated into English Verse She was a white lily sort of girl and I—well, I'd gone the pace long before I met her. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth What he drew was a fragile maiden form, sitting with clasped hands on a mossy ruin, gazing on a spray of white lilies which lay before her. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Or will you rise at dead of night and go out on the lake with me and watch field after field of white lilies flash open as the sun touches them with his spear? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 On his shaggy breast, Like a white lily heaving on the tide Of some foul stream, the fairest woman slept These roving eyes have ever looked upon. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 On the left one giant specimen of amole, reared from a base of exquisitely waving leaves, ran up the side of the drawing and broke into an airy and graceful head of gold-hearted white lilies. Her Father's Daughter The wedding-cake was delicately ornamented with white satin ribbons, frosted silver, and white lilies, and was forty-two yards round. Holiday Romance He bore in his hand a tall stalk of white lily, with open blossoms and buds and tender fluted green leaves, such as one sees in a thousand pictures of the Annunciation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Two sulphur butterflies sported around the tall white lilies at the farmery door. Gathering of Brother Hilarius The sacred place was radiant with white lilies. The Man Between, an International Romance There it stands in all its grace and loveliness like a tall white lily against the blue sky, pointing ever upward, in the grand old faith of the shepherd-boy. Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters A white lily was not obtainable just then, but the effect of a tall blue iris placed in one of Anne's folded hands was all that could be desired. Anne of Green Gables Covered with white lilies, slowly the casket sank into earth. The Harvester Then, in great impatience, she caught at the white lilies under which he lay; and, as she broke the flower-crowned stems, Hilarius stirred and cried out in his sleep, whereat she plucked the faster. Gathering of Brother Hilarius Several species of tree yuccas in the same desert, laden in early spring with superb white lilies, form forests hardly less wonderful, though here they grow singly or in small lonely groves. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon Truly they have saints and angels enough this time--rows upon rows of sweet faces and white lilies. Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters Tonight a spike of white lilies faintly perfumed the room like the dream of a fragrance. Anne of Green Gables First walked the Harvester alone, with bared head, and he carried an arm load of white lilies. The Harvester Panting a little, the woman came towards him across the many-hued marble floors; and, as she passed, a vase of great white lilies caught in her draperies of cramoisie and fell. Gathering of Brother Hilarius Her creamy skin is as fair and flawless as the petals of a white lily. The Golden Road There was the flash of diamonds, and the moonlight glimmer of pearls beneath this flimsy covering; and at her belt a few white lilies. Remember the Alamo The tall white lilies were reeling in the moonlight, and the air was charged with their perfume, as with a presence. Sons and Lovers He opened the larger one and took from it an arm load of white lilies that he carried up the hill and divided between the mounds under the oak. The Harvester A light, fanciful bamboo table stood in the middle of the room, where a Parian vase, wrought in the shape of a white lily, with its buds, stood, ever filled with flowers. Uncle Tom's Cabin Iris and white lilies rose out of the grass in sheaves, and the green alcoves filled themselves with amazing armies of the blue and white flower lances of tall delphiniums or columbines or campanulas. The Secret Garden But, Freckles, there was never a place anywhere in the Limberlost, or in the whole world, where the thistledown floated and sprang up and blossomed into white lilies! Freckles She was as pale as a white lily. An Enemy to the King Through their dark locks was wreathed the white lily of the Nile,—that flower being accounted as welcome to the moon, as the golden blossoms of the bean-flower are to the sun. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 265, July 21, 1827 In her dress of softly folding silver cloth she was a tall white lily. It Happened in Egypt Round about Melicent were nodding armaments of roses and gillyflowers and narcissi and amaranths, and many violets and white lilies, and other flowers of all kinds and colours. Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship There's a star-lit breeze that stirs The glimmer of white lilies in the gloom. Georgian Poetry 1918-19 Just as a heavy plow will meller up the soil so white lilies can take root, or any other kind of sweet posies. Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 1 There is one beautiful tree, with flowers like immense white lilies, and buds that look like shut lily blossoms in white wax. Life in Mexico She was like some tall white lily, unconsciously beautiful, unconsciously grand; and the meanest natures kindled with a faint glow of poetry when they came in contact with her. Henry Dunbar A Novel I could scarcely keep them off the one white lily in my chamber, what wonder then that the stinking carrion brought from the nocturnal London parks was black with them? The Bride of Dreams Those who admired her most compared her to a tall white lily, alike stately and graceful. Run to Earth A Novel Gather the flowers of the sweet white lily, while they are fresh, and stew them in sweet lard. Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers There, reposing in stately beauty, lay the great white lily with its golden bell. Ester Ried Yet Speaking At his right side was a dim taper in a gold candlestick; on the left a dainty golden vase, filled with white lilies, freshly gathered: these were offerings from the king. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok The white lilies in the jar were beginning to fade, yet they still exuded a pure and strong perfume. L'Assommoir The heat was intense; the smell of charcoal deadened the air, while the branch of white lilies slowly faded and filled the room with their sweetness. L'Assommoir Pound the roots of the sweet white lily, and put them on to boil in rich milk; when soft, thicken it with crumbs of bread. Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers They sang all together, with those who lay on the beds of white lilies and violets: a song of unheard sweetness. The Path of Life My mother took a rose, and presented it to the lady, who placed a fair white lily in her hand. The Magician's Show Box and Other Stories A bouquet of large white lilies bloomed in what had once been a brandied cherry jar. L'Assommoir Come, fill my apron again, and give me those large ones, with the white lilies, for the mantel-pieces. The Old Homestead The Abbot looked down on the ground where he had poured his milk, and behold! there were only white lilies, without a single yellow one. Historical Miniatures A white lily is fairer than a flaunting peony, and the joy into which sorrow accepted turns is pure and refining and good. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms They went down to the pond, which was dotted with sweet, white lilies, and watched the fish splash in the water. The Graymouse Family “You have been away again?” she asked presently, looking down at the wild white lilies which she had been gathering. An American Politician When she came down, an earthern pitcher, crowded with great white lilies, honeysuckles and sweetbriar, stood on the windows or mantel-pieces of every room. The Old Homestead A trailing eugenia bears dark red flowers shaped like a mop, and a tiny white lily with petals and strangely protuberant anthers scents the air as with honey and almonds. Tropic Days And when an hour after, she descended, in a sweeping robe of silvery blue, white lilies in her yellow hair, and pale pearls clasping her slim throat, she looked fair as a dream. A Terrible Secret Or it will be some large-eyed, slow-moving, long, lithe Southern girl who will look like a great white lily turned into a woman. A Daughter of Fife In the summer white lilies haunted it, standing out in the dusk with their demure cajolery, looking, as Hazel said, like ghosses. Gone to Earth The central feature of the garden is that beautiful white lily called Love. Adventures in the Land of Canaan James the gardener gave me a white lily. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room But I am a fool to be jealous of you, my white lily. A Terrible Secret In the early days of the second winter came the Angel of the Annunciation, bearing a white lily to Draxy. Saxe Holm's Stories It was worth while to hear the poultry cries of the gallinules if nothing more; and often several of the birds would be seen swimming about among the big white lilies and the green tussocks. A Florida Sketch-Book Over the lake—ah! nearer float, Down on the water's breast; Let me look deep, and gazing doat On that white lily's nest. A Hidden Life and Other Poems Just above it, Mrs. King deposited a wreath of white roses, in the centre of which Eulalia timidly laid a white lily. A Romance of the Republic They come with the white roses and prepare the way for the white lilies of the garden. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 Let the first descend The temple's stairs, and with a downcast eye Upon the lowest pavement prostrate lie: In creeping violets, white lilies, shine Their humble thoughts and every pure design. England's Antiphon Isabelle has gold, and lands, Fate gave her a fair lot; Like the white lilies of the field Her soft hands toil not. Poems The flower is generally the large white lily of our gardens, "the pure white petals signifying her spotless body, and the golden anthers within typifying her soul sparkling with divine light." The Folk-lore of Plants "Wait for me a few minutes, Esther," he whispered; and I betook myself to the window-seat and looked over the dusky garden, where the tall white lilies looked like ghostly flowers in the gloom. Esther : a book for girls Weep ye, who never fell-for whom, unerring, The soul's white lilies keep their virgin hue, Ye who when thoughts so danger-sweet are stirring, Take the stern strength that Nature gives the few! The Poems of Schiller — First period Mine eyelids then She touched, and when I upward turned my amaze, Heaven's wide expanse was filled with angel-boys, Who bore white lilies in their hands, while tones Of sweetest music floated through the air. Maid of Orleans I have just finished a picture of white lilies that grow in the moist land by the watercourses. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe Are there none Like those white lilies, luminous and cool, Plucked from some hemlock-darkened northern stream By fair-haired swimmers, diving where the sun Scarce warms the surface of the deepest pool? Nets to Catch the Wind So, when our day is past; When we lie stilly Under the earth at last, Clod by white lily. Perpetual Light : a memorial Gather the white lily blossoms when in full bloom, and put them in a wide-mouthed bottle of brandy, cork the bottle, and it will then always be ready for use. Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children If I were a sunbeam, I know what I'd do; I would seek white lilies, Rainy woodlands through. Types of Children's Literature In the evening the girls went over to the Meads to practice Easter hymns; but I sat at home and made a cross, eighteen inches long, of cedar and white lilies. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe If their banners waved over its Southern Continent, that was no reason, he argued, why France should not unfurl her fair white lilies in the Northern. The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation The room was cool and full of the fragrance of white lilies. The Iron Woman The white lily root sliced is another valuable external application for bruises. Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children Everything is bright and neat and beautiful; the air is sleepy with jasmine scent and odor of white lilies; and the palm—emblem of immortality—lifts its head a hundred feet into the blue light. Two Years in the French West Indies And if you were here, we would go together and gather azaleas, and white lilies, and silver bells, and blue iris. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe The puddle is suddenly drained off into some law-ordained receptacle, and the white lily is swept away with it. A Knight of the Nineteenth Century Among these was a rare and beautiful white lily. Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales The prince was only like him in the neck, but he was young and good- looking; and the princess looked up, blinking, from the white lily, and asked who was there. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 One white lily he kept in his hand as he came towards his wife and grandson, with eyes fixed on its beauty. The Maid of Maiden Lane Francesca's eyes filled and the stars swam before her, for she remembered the three white lilies the Colonel had put into the still hands of his boy's mother, just before the casket was closed. Old Rose and Silver She looks like a white lily that has been dropped into a puddle. A Knight of the Nineteenth Century She was the great white lily of the world. The Countess Cathleen At last the girl's attire was complete, and Winsome stood ready for her morning walk fresh as the dew on the white lilies. The Lilac Sunbonnet O ye red roses and white lilies, behold me a vile weed, and see also how soon those flowers wither and die, which this world plucks. Light, Life, and Love : selections from the German mystics of the middle ages It's a lily, not a rose; a pinky white lily with dark tigery marks. Aaron's Rod A white rose nestled in her glossy hair; three sprays of white lily decked a vase on the mantel-piece. The Woman Who Did She was the great white lily of the world. The Countess Cathleen He saw the wimples of the lazy Grannoch Lane winding dimly through their white lily beds. The Lilac Sunbonnet Perhaps, in the month of the Madonna, when the white lilies bloom—perhaps!—one can never tell—the old song may be sung for us— "Chi sa fervente amar Solo e felice!" Vendetta: a story of one forgotten But we are born impure, we die impure; it is a fable that spotless white lilies sprang from any saint's decay, and the chastity of a monk or nun is but introverted impurity. First and Last Things A wave of conscious pleasure broke over Herminia's cheek, blush rose on white lily; but she answered nothing. The Woman Who Did The curves of her throat were like the curves of a white lily. The Picture of Dorian Gray The little girl accepted the invitation, and found herself immediately transported into the corolla of a beautiful white lily. Piccolissima But now Anna could let Nettie live in the world of my mind, as freely as a rose will suffer the presence of white lilies. In the Days of the Comet As he reached the turn he stopped and looked back and saw her standing amid the tall white lilies by the gate. Rilla of Ingleside They consider only the proud white lilies and the large gorgeous roses beautiful flowers. Andreas Hofer I love her for her beauty, meekness, grace; For her white lily soul and angel face. Maurine and Other Poems He opened one of the fans; it was of white satin, with quite an artistic painting of a large Prussian eagle about to devour a white lily. Frederick the Great and His Family Round about it were roses and narcissus and amaranths and gilly-flowers and chamomiles and white lilies and violets, and other flowers of all kinds and colours. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 Yet this can't be all," she said to herself, as she wandered among the tall white lilies in the twilight; "is it a trance, or am I myself? Clever Woman of the Family Thirty feet away Master Jeremy Sparrow worked among the dying flowers, and hummed:— "There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies grow." To Have and to Hold The stem of a white lily rested in her hand so that the spike of flowers was upon her shoulder. The Good Soldier Tall white lilies in the garden beds already rivaled the delphiniums; the York and Lancaster roses were full-blown round their golden hearts. Saint's Progress Cowslips and gillyflowers And the white lily I brought to deck the bowers For my sweet Philly. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 She shows Her hues, white lily and pink rose, And in her laughing eyes the snares That hearts entangle unawares. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 When she came down with her mother, she looked like an incensed goddess, and when she returned she reminded me of the fading white lily she wore in her hair. A Face Illumined Would I were a white lily, that fastening me with thine hands thou mightest satisfy me with the nearness of thy body. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology The lake, with white lilies sleeping on its tranquil bosom and weeping willows touching its clear surface, pleased her most of all. Dora Thorne But the crafty slave, observing the Prince's amazement, said, "Do not wonder, my Prince; for me turned by a wicked spell from a white lily to a black coal." Stories from the Pentamerone "Let the dance begin," he cried, and then the flower-crowned girls sprang forward in companies, singing a sweet song and waving the delicate palms and white lilies. King Solomon's Mines And Tirzah--her breath was as the breath of white lilies. Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ "Your heart," I said, "however arid it be, bears also its white lily; and that is reason enough why I do not believe that you are what you say—a wicked woman." The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard See," she cried, turning to Lionel, "white heath, white roses, white lilies, intermixed with these pale gray flowers! Dora Thorne It was like a dark cathedral with white lilies on the high altar. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard "The white lilies just at the side," said Rose, her attention diverted for a moment. We Two, a novel These four and twenty elders in white raiment, and crowned with white lilies, white being the color of faith, symbolize the books of the Old Testament. Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Purgatory The world is filled with gladness; The bells of Easter ring; Each pure white lily's waking, To welcome infant spring. Buttercup Gold, and other stories It was calm and clear—the tall trees and green sedges swaying in the wind, the white lilies rising and falling with the ripples. Dora Thorne There is only one white lily, and who that has ever seen—as I have—a lily really well painted could grudge the artist so fair a ground for his skill? The Works of Max Beerbohm Beside them a great tree raised itself, fairly covered with morning-glories, and over at their right a mountainside gleamed like snow in the sunlight, clothed from top to bottom with white lilies. The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa And out of the white lily leaves the Princess peeped, too, and asked what was the matter. Andersen's Fairy Tales "They are like white lilies lying in the pool of your black dress." In a German Pension A magnificent pomegranate blossom lay in the bodice of her dress, and she carried a bouquet of white lilies mixed with scarlet verbena. Dora Thorne After the vital tropical fashion the grass was springing tall in the natural meadows and on the plains and the brief-lived white lilies and an abundance of ground flowers washed the slopes with colour. The Land of Footprints Cowslips and gillyflowers And the white lily I brought to deck the bowers For my sweet Philly. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse Nay, nay, for I see white lilies clear,It is no strong man who lies on the bier. Ballad of Reading Gaol It gleamed and glittered, A tall white lily, Under the eye of the golden moon. Sword Blades and Poppy Seed A white lily was not more pure and stainless than the young girl who sat amid the purple heather, sketching the white, far-off sails. Dora Thorne |
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