lilied
AmericanEtymology
Origin of lilied
Example Sentences
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Followed the usual exchange of lilied words, of felicitations and compliments.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry
With you compared How poor that lilied Delos of old Greece, For all its laurel bowers and nightingales!
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey
Other adjectives of this kind are, moneyed, whiskered, slippered, lettered, talented, cottaged, lilied, anguished, gifted, and so forth.
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Osmun, Thomas Embly
When the evening star flashed silver in the lilied pool, Carl sat alone.
From Diane of the Green Van by Dalrymple, Leona
No more the glint of flaxen hair That nestled 'round the lilied brow— No more the rose's bloom will wear The cheek so cold and pallid now.
From The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems by Doneghy, George W.
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