| 单词 | paint the lily |
| 例句 | Just recall the wisdom of the Bard: “To paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet . . . is wasteful and ridiculous excess.” Tipple through the tulips: How to use flowers in cocktails for Valentine’s Day 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z He doesn’t just paint the lily; he bejewels and shellacs it, too. The Year’s Best Baking Cookbooks: Radical Ideas, Classic Treats 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z To gild refined gold, to paint the lily; To throw a perfume on the violet. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z It was to "gild refined gold, and paint the lily." Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z More than once Juggernaut laid aside his own property and returned to the highly unnecessary task of painting the lily—if such a phrase can be applied to the efficient blacking of a shoe. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z You and your golden-haired mistress presented me with my life last night, and now you 'paint the lily'—gad, that's a good simile, isn't it?" he chuckled to himself—"by giving me your clothes. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z It is wrong to paint the lily at all; it is doubly wrong to paint "Wear Rainproof Socks" across its virgin petals. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Not content with painting the lily, he burnished it until it seemed a product of the goldsmith’s art. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z It is beyond the province of a translator to attempt the task of �painting the lily.� The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z And I found that he had not painted the lily in too glowing terms. Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z “That would surely be ‘adorning nature’—‘painting the lily’—and all that,” laughed Mary. The Girls of Central High Rivals for All Honors 2011-08-11T02:00:17.153Z These are the people who 'paint the lily' and—er—er—touch up refined gold! A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z Several shoeblacks very anxious to black my boots, which, as I tell them, would be "painting the lily." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93. September 17, 1887 "This is painting the lily with a vengeance; 'color on color' is bad heraldry, but what shall we say of the taste that brings 'bore upon bore'?" Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) "He's painting the lily," said Sage with a glint in his eye. John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall A book about him by some one who knew how to paint the lily and improve on possibility was what was sought. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday Hawkens' clerk took down one of the great rifles to go over it with an oiled rag, which was another example of painting the lily. Bring Me His Ears The Greeks refined the gold, and painted the lily. Needlework As Art To make any comment would be to gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume o'er the violet. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule "But he won't be alone in the moonlight with her, that is, if I can help it," answered the mistress, as she further perfumed and painted the lily of her beauty. Blue-grass and Broadway In 1771 the altar-piece was consigned to the collection where it now is; and it was then decided to gild the gold and paint the lily. Holbein Ye canna paint the lily, or improve upon perfection. The Dop Doctor It was when they began to paint the lily, in the days of pretty corruption, that the whole matter of dyeing changed. The Tapestry Book But, madam, when you have assumed all the panoply your sex relies on to increase its charms 'twill be but to 'gild refined gold or paint the lily.' Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia A man camping at this board is painting the lily and gilding fine gold. Skylark Three Stone will give its own color; which, by the way, some prodigiously smart folks paint—quite as decorous or essential, as to "paint the lily." Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings There are detailed descriptions from the pens of those who feel an unctuous joy in painting the lily, kalsomining the calla, and adding perfumes to the violet, the rose, and the orange. A Truthful Woman in Southern California The modern world tended to gild pure gold and then try to scrape the gilt off the gingerbread, to paint the lily and then complain of its gaudiness. Gilbert Keith Chesterton You should see the way he paints the lily in the Banner every week. A Certain Rich Man I'll drop you at your door—leave you for an hour to paint the lily, and then fetch and take you. The Cockaynes in Paris Or 'Gone abroad' To the surprise and admiration of their fellows, two officers, like insane artists trying to gild refined gold or paint the lily, pursued their private contest through the years of universal carnage. The Point Of Honor A Military Tale And now I go," said he, "to paint the lily and adorn the rose. A Woman Named Smith To eulogize him to the reading public is To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To lend a perfume to the violet ... English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction As to Willie—he failed egregiously, when he attempted to 'gild refined gold and paint the lily,' as he did in his so-called 'Sacred Poems.' Sea and Shore A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" To burlesque such a work as “Norma,” then, is to paint the lily, to gild refined gold, to caricature Lord Morpeth, or to attempt to improve PUNCH. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 But also Angus, peer, was merely painting the lily, as they say, when he'd tell all the different kinds of Indian the boy was. Somewhere in Red Gap Heavenly hue and form Above, around, are glowing warm, From His right hand Who rides the storm, Yet paints the lily's cheek. A Celtic Psaltery I can remember when divines were never tired of painting the lily, of indulging in the most glowing descriptions of the Elysian Fields. Some Private Views “To gild refined gold—to paint the lily,” was all the humour of it. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 483, April 2, 1831 As to Willis—he failed egregiously, when he attempted to 'gild refined gold and paint the lily,' as he did in his so-called 'Sacred Poems.' Miriam Monfort A Novel No one needs to gild gold, or paint the lily. Town and Country Sermons Webster is an expert, a virtuoso in horrifics; in flesh-creeping effects lies his skill; and, indulging that skill, he not only paints the lily, but repaints it and daubs it yet a third time. Poetry "I am not one of those who paint the lily." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 To try to give the reader an idea of how thirsty they were, would be to "gild refined gold or paint the lily." Roughing It, Part 2. It must have just happened—one of those miracles in the way of gilding refined gold and painting the lily which are so common nowhere else as in our model penal institutions. The Subterranean Brotherhood He had an iron, but after brief consultation, "Major" and "Captin" decided that to iron working shirts would be merely painting the lily. Back to Billabong Praising the strawberry is like "painting the lily;" therefore let us give our attention at once to the essential details of its successful culture. The Home Acre Their dreams suddenly became so lurid and dreadful and picturesque that it was hard for the rest of us to believe that they were not painting the lily rather freely in their accounts of them. The Story Girl It is needless to say that some of the reporters had painted the lily pretty freely, but the public were ready to believe everything that came out in the papers. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab One knows that, and so the imagination is awake, ready to paint the lily and to gild the beaten gold. The Spell of Egypt Who ever managed to paint the lily with complimentary words or gild refined gold with fancy phrases? The Native Son I don't know why their interest should have prompted me to go on and paint the lily a little, but I certainly did so. An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; an Idyl of Saratoga If my poor opinion is worth anything," he observed, "I should say that to find fault with your appearance, Miss Howes, would be like venturing to—er—-paint the lily, as the saying is. Thankful's Inheritance To the surprise and admiration of their fellows, two officers, like insane artists trying to gild refined gold or paint the lily, pursued a private contest through the years of universal carnage. A Set of Six Surely the common prejudice against painting the lily can but be based on mere ground of economy. The Works of Max Beerbohm We talk of the folly of painting the lily; but if we saw the lily without warning we should think that it was painted. What's Wrong with the World |
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