lilied
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Origin of lilied
Example Sentences
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And she looked as fair as a lilied bower, Or a pound of lard or a sack of flour;— And the young man wearily—waited.
From Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" by Various
With lilied field and grove, Haunts of the turtle-dove, Here is the land of Love.
From Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius
I see beyond that feathery brake The gleaming of a lilied lake, Where flowers in sunlike glory throw Fresh odours from the wave below.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
Come where the touch-me-nots shy peep Gold-horned and speckled from the cascades steep: Come where the daisies by the rustic bridge Display their eyes, Or where the lilied sedge From emerald forest-pools, lance-like, thick rise.
From Blooms of the Berry by Cawein, Madison J.
She is, I believe, on the lilied edge of eighteen.
From The Heather-Moon by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
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