A crimson garment in the rose thou wear'st; A crown of studded gold thou bear'st, The virgin lillies in their white, Are clad but with the lawn of almost naked light.
Pitt[y]ing their herse should want all funerall rights, Snatches the virgin lillies from his bankes To strow their watry sepulcher.
Ile rather bleed to death then lift a sword In my defence, whose inconsiderate brightnes May fright the Roses from your cheeke and leave The Lillies to lament the rude divorce.
Let all the Roses, and the Lillies goe: Karol is only faire to mee!
If it be requisite to bring this Tumour to Suppuration, white Lillies roasted under Embers may be added to the preceeding Cataplasm; or else a new Cataplasm may be made with Sorrel boil'd, fresh Butter, and a little Leaven.
To catch your words, as lillies catch the dew-- So eager that it fain would overbrim With the fresh gathering.
Vine, as with those Lillies and Roses which bloom and flourish in your Chaplet this day, to which not only these, but even all the productions of nature seem to bend, and pay their homage.
A glorious mother, in her flowry birth, Shew Lillies like thy brow?
Should she to the cold Northerne climates goe, Force thy affrighted Lillies there to grow; Thy Roses in those gelid fields t' appeare; She absent, I have all their Winter here.
She who apparelsLillies in their white, As if in that she'de teach mans duller sence, Wh'are highest, should be so in innocence.
With full-leau'd Lillies I will stick Thy braded hayre all o'r so thick, 200 That from it a Light shall throw Like the Sunnes vpon the Snow.
Phillis, thy fill of speech thou hast, Thy witt with pointed wings is grast, Yet urdgest not a trueth so vast, That hemlocks lillies have surpast.
So lillies out of scarlet peere, So roses of the vernall yeere, So shoote two wanton starrs y-feere[16] From the eternall burning spheere.
O haud your tongue, my dearest dear, Let all your follies abee; I’ll show whare the white lillies grow, In the bottom of the sea.
O haud your tongue, my dearest dear, Let all your follies abee; I’ll show whare the white lillies grow, On the banks of Italie.
A fragrant scent like a rose's breath, Hung round her and seemed of herself a part, And a bouquet of lillies as pale as death, Drooped sadly above her beating heart.
But when he recovered his balance, he clearly distinguished the onions and cabbages, a garden bed of lettuce further off, and, in the distance along the hedge, a row of white lillies recumbent in the heavy air.
Curs'd be the union that was form'd with France, I see their lillies and the stars advance!
Of Natures guifts, thou mayst withLillies boast, And with the halfe-blowne Rose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lillies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
