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He talked of his mother's bed of lilies-of-the-valley.

From Time Magazine Archive

I bought a few bunches of lilies-of-the-valley, and thus I travelled on through the country, as if on a pleasure excursion.

From Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix

The chairs and sofas were covered with white brocaded silks, and the velvet carpet was scattered with lilies-of-the-valley on a delicate green groundwork.

From Dot and Tot of Merryland by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

The tan of the neatest of number three shoes blended upward into the purple paradise, and from the tan seemed growing a snowy spray of lilies-of-the-valley.

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley

Hyacinths and lilies-of-the-valley made a spring-time of their own under the sheltering skylight.

From The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)