I was in raptures with a bed of blue irises mixed with snow-white water-lilies that our canoe passed over.
Where a large bed of these lilies grow closely together, they give quite a sanguine appearance to the waters, that is distinguishable at some distance.
I regret that among my dried plants I could not preserve some specimens of our superb water-lilies and irises; but they were too large and too juicy to dry well.
No sane traveler would imagine a white woman in the Amazon jungle, with skin as amazingly pale as the great, fleshy victoria regia lilies in the igarapé.
He saw a vale of flowering grass, of palms and live oaks, saw patches of lilies so huge as to transcend belief, and dizzying clumps of tree cactus almost as tall as the palms themselves.
Her brown hair knew no royal crest, No gems nor jeweled charms, No roses her bright cheek caressed, No lilies kissed her arms.
So we sat us down on the sunny dike, Where the white pond-lilies teeter, And I went to fishing like quaint old Ike, And she like Simon Peter.
What was it that made them lilies instead of making them violets or roses or geraniums or petunias?
If they were not lilies they would have to be something else, would they not?
In the circles of roses flanked by humbler flowers and the tall line of lilies that crept like a stately band of pure-souled fairy sentinels down to the riverside she planted some of her own fragrant heart.
So fair and lasting was her complexion that, as an old lady, a Freehold gallant compared it to "the lilies and garden pinks.
Every year I go to the Everley woods to gather wild lilies of the valley.
Dumping the wilted side and arranging the newly-cut lilies in a basket by her side and orchids in their place.
Dumping the fragrance anyway; they're just meant wilted lilies in a basket by her to be seen.
O black flowers, and black lilies and roses, but O fair, fair, ever fair Lord Jesus!
Give me your hat," she said, "and I'll put some liliesin it.
He watched her admiringly as she deftly wreathed the lilies around it, holding it up, now this way and now that, while she critically inspected the effect.
With what lilies of virgin innocence would she fain have rewarded her lover!
There was a round table laid for two, with a white linen tablecloth with a border of real lace eight inches wide, and in the centre stood a huge white and gold Venetian glass basket filled with lilies of the valley and maidenhair fern.
From the hilltop you will find before you a valley, and you will see in the valley a fountain of water that flows into a small lake with many lilies about the margin.
And I beheld the lake of lilies of which he spake and I beheld the fountain that flowed into the lake and I beheld the tree that overshadowed the fountain, so I straightway rode down into the valley thereunto.
And blossoms should grow odorless--and lilies all aghast-- And I said the stars should slacken in their paces through the vast, Ere yet my loyalty should fail enduring to the last.
Near the tall palace pale of hue Shone lovely lakes where lilies blew, And lotuses with flower and bud Gleamed on the bosom of the flood.
Can the white swan who floats in pride Through lilies by her consort’s side, Look for one moment, as they pass, On the poor diver in the grass?
For, Lakshmaṇ, O how blest are those On whom the breath of Pampá blows, Dispelling all their care and gloom With sweets from where the lilies bloom!
See, too, this pleasant water near Our cavern home is fresh and clear; And lilies gay with flower and bud Are glorious on the lovely flood.
An ample cavern opens there Made lovely by the mountain air, And lotuses and liliesfill The pleasant lake and murmuring rill.
There flushed the lotus darkly red, Here their white glory lilies spread, Here sweet buds showed their tints of blue: So carpets gleam with many a hue.
So when each bird has sought her nest, And swans are mute and wild bees rest, Sleep the fair lilies on the lake Till the sun’s kiss shall bid them wake.
There rise no lilies from the flood, Resplendent with their flower and bud, Where the delighted bees may throng About the fragrance with their song.
I wandered first to eastern skies Where fairest trees rejoiced mine eyes, And many a cave and wooded hill Where lilies robed the lake and rill.
See, lotus blooms the brook o’erspread, Some tender blue, some dazzling red, And opening lilies white as snow Their buds in rich profusion show.
O, look again: beneath thee gleams Godávarí the best of streams, Whose lucid waters sweetly glide By lilies that adorn her side.
After a little he came and stood before her with a bunch of ferns and Melic grass and lilies of the valley, which he was ordering in his hands as he spoke.
The King himself took his place in the “Lists” in black armour; his mantle was of black velvet sewn with silver lilies of Anjou, and his well-trained charger was black also.
The tapestried walls of this chapelle ardente were covered with sable cloth sewn with silver lilies and hung with great garlands of yew.
The kirtle was of cloth of gold cunningly embroidered with the white lilies of France--the same for Anjou; the robe of state was of crimson velvet bordered with ermine, which also formed the trimming of the stomacher she wore.
Mezereon and other fragrant shrubs put out sweet-scented flowers, and the great white arum lilies were throwing up their sheaths.
She snatched thelilies from Nancy's hand and flung them in the path.
The chums had an objective point in a little cove across the river, where splendid lilies grew.
Just above the millrace was a quiet pool under the bank where great, fragrant water-lilies floated upon the surface.
Nancy took her chum to the millpond, where the water-lilies grew, and showed her where Bob Endress had come so near being drowned in the millrace.
The hand gripping the great bunch of lilies beat the air; but Nancy saw that his eyes were wide open and that he seemed to have recovered his courage.
She chose a jewel for her hair and made herself a garland of the leaves of water-lilies and their blossoms.
Have you returned to work, may I ask, or are you still imitating the lilies of the field?
As if called to life by the chime of a little brook, a host of white wild flowers unfolded their starry blossoms along the margin, and clumps of swamp lilies shed an azure hue along the grass.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lilies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
