lilied
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Origin of lilied
Example Sentences
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Lo, here Choaspes' lilied field: Lo, here the Hermian plain: What need we save the Doric shield To stop the Persian's reign?
From Ionica by Cory, William (AKA William Johnson)
Up to the morning of the previous day, his three years of life had been passed in protected, green-hedged valley pastures, amid tilled fields and well-stocked barns, beside a lilied water.
From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
And when it reached its full broad blow It shed a fragrance sweet From out its bosom lilied snow,— And incense that the gods I know Had smiled with joy to greet.
From The Loom of Life by Noe, Cotton
Now a spirit in the rocks Calls him; now a face that mocks, From behind some bowlder slipping, Laughs at him with lilied locks.
From Idyllic Monologues Old and New World Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius
Her shawl, the lace-like elder bloom, She hangs upon the hillside brake, Smelling of warmth and of her breast's perfume, And, lying in the citron-colored gloom Beside the lilied lake, She stares the buds awake.
From A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius
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