lilied
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Origin of lilied
Example Sentences
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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
Her shawl, the lace-like elder bloom, She hangs upon the hillside brake, Smelling of warmth and of her breast's perfume, And, lying in the citron-colored gloom Beside the lilied lake, She stares the buds awake.
From A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius
Oh bather, may those Western gems Remind you of my lilied Thames.
From Ionica by Cory, William (AKA William Johnson)
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)
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