But, they are not true lilies, though related and have lily-like trumpet flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Brigitte Mars: Delightful Day Lilies with Brigitte Mars] Reference
It has usually two little lily-like leaves and a blossom stalk running up from these. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
Beautiful as a flower, with her marble palaces, her fine churches, her lily-like bell-tower!. From Wordnik.com. [Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer] Reference
It is applicable alike to the rush-like form and habit of foliage, and the lily-like purity and style of flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
During bright weather the divisions of the lily-like flowers become reflexed and otherwise show themselves to advantage. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
In August there springs up a single stalk from the apparently dead plant, bearing a lily-like bunch of flowers of charming colors. From Wordnik.com. [Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916] Reference
They saw a small plant with white lily-like flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Hunters] Reference
And you're not that lackadaisical lily-like one, either. From Wordnik.com. [Patty's Suitors] Reference
His blue eyes were bent upon the lily-like face of Helene. From Wordnik.com. [An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada] Reference
A sleek, lily-like design, it's perfect for almost any setting. From Wordnik.com. [TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends] Reference
Bell for a bride, I wish to have her bower pearly and lily-like. From Wordnik.com. [A romance of the republic] Reference
"What you read in the literature is that they have a lily-like odor to them,". From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News]
It is of course emblematic of lily-like purity, and therefore very suitable for a woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study.] Reference
Visitors to the farm greatly admired the large, creamy-white lily-like blossoms of the datura. From Wordnik.com. [Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans"] Reference
The plant's long, lily-like leaves are complemented by conical clusters of pale lemon-yellow small flowers. From Wordnik.com. [eHow - Health How To's] Reference
Its blossoms, dainty as rare orchids, with lily-like, violet-veined petals of palest-tinted mauve and purple. From Wordnik.com. [Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans"] Reference
Her lily-like face was cool and pale, but in that warm-coloured robe it seemed as though her very body blushed. From Wordnik.com. [An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada] Reference
The worm is said to secrete a lily-like smell when handled, spit at predators, and live in burrows 15 feet deep. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Oscar Wilde, in a poetic fervor and a lily-like kimono, recited with tremulous intensity this masterpiece of his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Re-echo Club] Reference
The hand might seem deformed, dried and yet swollen as with disease, were it not so delicate, so radiant, so lily-like. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Lily and Other Stories] Reference
And in the affectionate glance and smile his lily-like dame turned upon him Howland felt more than repaid for his sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims] Reference
Trumpet, lily-like, pure-white flowers in clusters, borne upon a stalk from the midst of a group of heart-shaped green leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
Everyone has seen one of the old forms, red or red with a white stripe, with the lily-like flowers borne well aloft above scant foliage. From Wordnik.com. [Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse] Reference
And very lily-like is one. From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Faggot] Reference
But, for lily-like fingers and feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Threshold] Reference
Thou art possessed of a lily-like face. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
Arms just as white and as lily-like too. From Wordnik.com. [When hearts are trumps] Reference
There lily-like she bow'd her head and slept. From Wordnik.com. [The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems] Reference
She scented his room with lily-like fragrance. From Wordnik.com. [La faute de l'Abbe Mouret] Reference
So fair, and sweet, and lily-like, and frail. From Wordnik.com. [Maurine and Other Poems] Reference
Yet, lily-like, one bloom I see. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Vol. IV] Reference
These plants bear large drooping bell-shaped lily-like blossoms. From Wordnik.com. [Gardening for the Million] Reference
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