Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
lily .
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Examples
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All the girls here are pink and white, and I am tired to death of their eternal lilie and roses.
The Red Fairy Book 2003
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All the girls here are pink and white, and I am tired to death of their eternal lilie and roses.
Red Fairy Book 1890
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The F. pistie contradicts itself palpably in several instances — and the author, lilie many before him, quotes from another language with - out understanding our own poor mother-tongue; for instance, I am called in page 10 of the Epis - tle, "a hacker of hoofs;" and j-et, in page 13,
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Suth vex themfelves, and eafe not others waliSf liiit ve ahLe enjoy a lilie commands xxxvtit.
The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical Anderson, Robert, 1750-1830. cn 1795
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There are alio many dreary waftes, and deep woods, terr. iinaicd only by great rivers, or the ocean; but thcfe I would leave to the prcfent in - habitants, the honcft Ofteaks, and Tongufes, and others lilie them ■, where, free from ambition and avarice, theyfpcnd their lives in peace and tranquillity.
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18 I wil send thee ayde, my seruantes I saie, and Ieremie, at whose counsel I haue sanctified, and prepared for thee tweleue trees loden with diuerse fruites, 19 and as manie fountaines flowing milke and honie: and seuen huge mountaines, hauing the rose and the lilie, in the which I wil fil thy children with ioy.
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18 I wil send thee ayde, my seruantes I saie, and Ieremie, at whose counsel I haue sanctified, and prepared for thee tweleue trees loden with diuerse fruites, 19 and as manie fountaines flowing milke and honie: and seuen huge mountaines, hauing the rose and the lilie, in the which I wil fil thy children with ioy.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Tho alternate alliteration of the second lilie, in this instance!, seems an improve* iSaent Upon the art, to the whole merit of VBE HOI/LUX).
The Rolliad, in Two Parts: Probationary Odes for the Laureatship; and Political Eclogues and ... 1812
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THe "defert and the land without paflage shal be glad, & e the wilderncs shal reioyce, and shal ftorish as the lilie.
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