chaliced
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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They can never, of course, get very far away from the regions skirted by eternal frost, for their cup of joy must be chaliced by the snow-flake, or their beautiful life is soon ended.
From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
But here a peace deeper than peace is furled, Enshrined and chaliced from the changeful hour; The snow is still, yet lives in its own light.
From Lundy's Lane and Other Poems by Scott, Duncan Campbell
Why, one may ask, are some lilies radiantly colored and speckled; others, like the Easter lily, deep chaliced, white, spotless?
From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje
Blossoms hold Mines of gold Deep within the farthest heart of each chaliced flower.
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass by Lowell, Amy
The moon bears through the violet night A pearly urn of chaliced light; And from your dark-railed balcony You stoop and wave your fan at me.
From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius
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