lilied
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Origin of lilied
Example Sentences
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He was still staring vaguely about him when night curtained the lilied pool and the stars flashed brightly overhead.
From Diane of the Green Van by Dalrymple, Leona
The wood is searched from side to side, No distant spot remains untried, No lilied pool, no streamlet where The lotus buds are fresh and fair.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
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
I admire lolling on a lawn by a water lilied pond to eat white currants and see gold-fish: and go to the Fair in the Evening if I’m good.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John
A spirit-world, where all was fair; An island, sleeping in a trance Of lilied light and air.
From One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue by Cawein, Julius Madison
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