And I said, "Yield me the lily thou hast drained that I This hollow thirst may kill and so not die?
He was sitting on a water-lily leaf, he and his friend the dragon-fly, watching the gnats dance.
I see a lily on thy brow With anguish moist and fever-dew, And on thy cheeks a fading rose Fast withereth too.
Time will run On smoother, till Favonius re-inspire The frozen earth, and cloth in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sow'd nor spun.
I die, whose love is late avowed, He lives, who boasts the lily has bowed To the oath of a bended knee.
When at dawn she sighs, and like an infant to the window Turns grave eyes craving light, released from dreams, Beautiful she looks, like a white water-lily Bursting out of bud in havens of the streams.
When from bed she rises clothed from neck to ankle In her long nightgown sweet as boughs of May, Beautiful she looks, like a tall garden lily Pure from the night, and splendid for the day.
The old grist mill near Lily Lake and its successors have long since passed away.
About this time or a little later a small grist mill was built at the outlet of Lily Lake.
Like the lily living in the water, she feeds on her native element, love.
Woman's daily life is to her spiritual life what the debris of the stream is to the water-lily that floats upon the surface.
That lily illustrates truthfully the spiritual character of woman's work.
He tells us that in Perce Forest the lilyof the Katha Sarit Sagara is represented by a rose.
I go to take some flowers to a little dead girl there; she likes to smell them, and hold them in her hands instead of the dead lily she has got.
She had once been known as the Lily of Limborough, and she lived in the perpetual remembrance of this tradition.
He thought that she was about to fall--she was swaying as a tall lily sways in a breath of air.
The lingering Lily of Limborough took to her bed--she had taken to her sofa the year before--and never held up her head afterwards.
The blossom's scent Floated across the fresh grass, and the bees With low, vexed song from rose to lily went; A gentle wind was in the heavy trees.
Lilias, happy in the possession of her name neatly pictured on the specially white sheet of papyrus, with a lotus bloom, the lily of Egypt, painted underneath.
Become my spouse, or fair lily of the valley, and you will have me always at your feet.
You are to me a Rose of Sharon, a Lily of the Vale.
I am (but) a rose of Sharon, A lily of the valleys.
To this the Bridegroom responds: "Be it so; but if a wild flower, yet As a lily among thorns, So is My love among the daughters.
The industry of this creature urged the Lily to toil and spin, contrary to its usual habits, while the Shamrock converted its trifoliated leaves into shovels, and took a contract for excavating the hemisphere.
One beautiful Twelfth of July, the Lily arose very early in the morning, and, shaking out her orange leaves, defied the Shamrock to "come on.
As soon would lily cease from growing, because it feared to be plucked for the sake of its fair sweet flower.
But when he looked upon Helen his wrath melted away like frost before the sun; for she stood like a fair lily that some careless hand has half plucked from its stem, so that its head hangs drooping towards the dust.
These pretty plants of the Lily order have more or less oblong or cylindrical bulbs, sometimes with creeping rhizomes, and leaves more or less marbled or blotched or sometimes green.
The depth at which Lily bulbs are to be planted depends greatly upon the size of the individual bulbs; some kinds are planted about 6 inches deep, while others require a depth of 9 or 10 inches.
Martagon Lily (Lilium Martagon), and the Wild Tulip (Tulipa sylvestris) have been grown as garden plants for 400 years or more.
The Bermuda Lily disease is probably the result of similar efforts to get rich too quickly.
There is at present, I believe, no effectual remedy against the Lily disease, and once it appears in a garden, the culture of the Madonna Lily is doomed from that moment.
The cut surfaces dry up, and by-and-bye small buds or bulblets, as shown on the sketch of the Lily scale, make their appearance.
The converse of forcing plants into early blossom is adopted with such an important crop as lily of the valley.
Marshall Ward showed that the hyphae of Botrytis pierce the cell-walls of a lily by secreting a cytase and dissolving a hole through the membrane.
Water-lily seeds are surrounded with a spongy tissue when set free from the fruit, and float for some distance before dropping to the bottom.
Young anatropal seed of the white Water-lily (Nymphaea alba), cut vertically.
Dehiscence is loculicidal when the union between the edges of the carpels is persistent, and they dehisce by the dorsal suture, or through the back of the loculaments, as in the lily and iris (figs.
The rose and lily were the two most frequently seen, but they seldom had more individuality about them than was sufficient to make them recognizable.
The rose and lily are such conspicuous flowers that they should, in modern times, be used in a way consistent with our demands for individual character and likeness.
Lily was lying on the bed, and on the top of her, its long antennae waving over her face, was an enormous scaly thing with a hideous jointed body and hundreds of poisonous-looking black legs.
Lily was unconscious, and for days she was so ill that the doctor held out very little hope of her recovery.
For the first two nights after the arrival of the visitors there were no disturbances, although Lilycomplained that she had never slept worse in her life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
