lily pad

Historical Examples of lily pad

• He throws one arm around her, and she reclines on his shoulder like a lily-pad.

  The World on Wheels and Other Sketches

  Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) Taylor

• I see that it wont do for me to think of two things at once when Im out on this lily-pad.

  Peter Cotterell's Treasure

  Rupert Sargent Holland

• It showed a benevolent bovine gazing downward at a frog on a lily-pad.

  Selina

  George Madden Martin

• They push up their noses beside a lily-pad and make no more disturbance than a rising bubble.

  In Pastures Green

  Peter McArthur

• They crawled upon a lily-pad and clung there, frightened, and feeling weak in all their knees.

  Among the Pond People

  Clara Dillingham Pierson