"Lily-white" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... were we young now as we ance hae been, We should hae been galloping down on yon green, And linking it owre the lily-white lea— And werena my heart ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various
... with minstrels, melodious With the invisible joy that wakes dawn o'er the green fields of England. Summer glows warm on the meadows; then come, let us roam thro' them gaily, Heedless of heat, and the hot-kissing sun, and the fear of dark freckles. Never one kiss will he give on a neck, or a lily-white forehead, Chin, hand, or bosom uncovered, all panting, to take the chance coolness, But full sure the fiery pressure leaves seal of espousal. Heed him not; come, tho' he kiss till the soft little upper-lip loses Half its ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... he was a draper's clerk, He came to see me after dark: Around the Park we used to stray To hear the lily-white bandsmen play. ...
— A Castle in Spain - A Novel • James De Mille
... of that. No one's soul can be lily-white whose beard is two weeks old. Also, mon ami, you ...
— Madcap • George Gibbs
... would make his mark in the world, that he was saved. He glanced at Mme. Forestier. She wore a gown of pale blue cashmere which clung gracefully to her supple form and rounded outlines; her arms and throat rose in, lily-white purity from the mass of lace which ornamented the corsage and short sleeves. Her hair was dressed high and curled on the ...
— Bel Ami • Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant
... when lilies blow, And clouds are highest up in air, Lord Ronald brought a lily-white doe To give his cousin ...
— The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson
... out her lily-white hand, As for to do her best: "Hae there your faith and troth, Willie, God send your soul ...
— A Bundle of Ballads • Various
... hand suddenly, as if angered, out of mine, and therewith, being very weak, I gave a cry, my wound fiercely paining me. Then her face changed from rose-red to lily-white, she dropped on her knees by my bed, and her arms were about my neck, and all over my face her soft, ...
— A Monk of Fife • Andrew Lang
... was crossing a silvery brook, Heigho, says ROWLEY! A lily-white Duck came and gobbled him up. With a rowley-powley, gammon and spinach, ...
— A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go • Randolph Caldecott
... the farmers and their long rifles had done at Bunker Hill, it was a little too much for Jack's strength, and he burst into tears. But Dr. Rush declared that self-control was an affair of physical health, and that he who had too little blood—and Jack was lily-white—could be neither courageous, nor able to contain his emotions. I suppose it may ...
— Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker • S. Weir Mitchell
... boast that you may gain The respect of high-born beauties; Know I never wooed in vain, Nor preferred scorned duties. She I love hath all delight, Rosy-red with lily-white, And whoe'er your mistress be, Flesh and blood ...
— Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, - Selected Poetry by George Wither, and - Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock) • Nicholas Breton, George Wither, William Browne (of Tavistock)
... comes midnight, who wears A mantle of purple so old, so old! Who stables the lily-white moon, it is said, In a wonderful chamber with violet stairs, Up which you can see her come, silent of tread, On hoofs of pale ...
— Weeds by the Wall - Verses • Madison J. Cawein
... you! If Bossard were guilty, he should have been convicted—sure! But if he were innocent, should he be exonerated? Should he be allowed to run again for office? Should the people be allowed to think that he was lily-white? Should they be allowed to re-elect a nitwit who'd do the same thing again because he was too stupid to see that he was ...
— Hail to the Chief • Gordon Randall Garrett
... difference between the reasonable passion which women at this age conceive towards men, and the idle and childish liking of a girl to a boy, which is often fixed on the outside only, and on things of little value and no duration; as on cherry-cheeks, small, lily-white hands, sloe-black eyes, flowing locks, downy chins, dapper shapes; nay, sometimes on charms more worthless than these, and less the party's own; such are the outward ornaments of the person, for which men are beholden to the taylor, the laceman, the periwig-maker, ...
— The History of Tom Jones, a foundling • Henry Fielding
... Sinclair, looking from one to another of his interested hearers, "and then the years rolled by until the fair maiden, Emmeline Cromarty, was of sufficient age to have suitors for her lily-white hand. As we can well believe, after a mere glance in her direction, she was the belle of the whole countryside. Brave gallants from far and near came galloping into the courtyard, and dismounting in feverish, haste, cried, 'What ho! is the radiant Emmeline within?' Then the old warden ...
— Patty's Friends • Carolyn Wells
... comes the King! Ah, a King indeed! What a figure, what a face! Whoever saw such beauty—lily-white, creamy-soft! What now, Kumbha? What do you ...
— The King of the Dark Chamber • Rabindranath Tagore (trans.)
... cwombs be a-zet in their bunches o' heaeir, An' their currels do hang roun' their necks lily-white, An' their cheaeks they be rwosy, their shoulders be beaere, Their looks they be merry, their limbs they ...
— Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect • William Barnes
... plight me your faith, my Mary, And plight me your lily-white hand; O plight me your faith, my Mary, Before I leave ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns
... first time to distinguish between right and wrong? Do they understand what it is to commit sacrilege? To intrude into the sanctum sanctorum of the meat-safe? To rifle and defile the half roseate, half lily-white charms of a virgin ham? To touch with unhallowed proboscis the immaculate lip of beauty, the unprotected scalp of old age, the savoury glories of the kitchen? To invade with the most reckless indifference, and the ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 12, Issue 346, December 13, 1828 • Various
... consists principally of decayed lichens, which form a substance resembling the peat moss of the Scottish moors. In this soil the lily-white "Cana" grows, a plant which I have not seen in any other part of the continent, although it may elsewhere be found in similar situations. In the low grounds along the banks of rivers, the soil is generally deep ...
— Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory - Volume II. (of 2) • John M'lean
... we young, as we ance hae been, We suld hae been galloping down on yon green, And linking it owre the lily-white lea,— And werena my heart ...
— Robert Burns • Principal Shairp
... But the li'l green pea ain't under that shell. Listen here, Swing, old-timer, I got a long and gashly tale of wickedness to pour into those lily-white mule ears of yores. Yep, if it wasn't me a-telling it I'll bet you'd think it was a ...
— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White
... by the lily-white hand, And led him to a private room, And there she blooded bold Robin Hood, Whilst one ...
— Ballad Book • Katherine Lee Bates (ed.)
... before I have done, I will prick my name in With the front of my steel, And your lily-white skin Shall be printed with me. For I've come ...
— Sword Blades and Poppy Seed • Amy Lowell
... a race between the brain of Weak-Hands and the body of the other, symbolized by the chasing of poor Weak-Hands in and out among the rocks until the climax. Brain desperately triumphs. Weak-Hands slays Brute-Force with the startling invention. He wins back his stolen bride, Lily-White (impersonated by Mae Marsh). It is a Griffith masterpiece, and every actor does sound work. The audience, mechanical Americans, fond of crawling on their stomachs to tinker their automobiles, are eager over the evolution of the first weapon from a stick to a hammer. They are as full ...
— The Art Of The Moving Picture • Vachel Lindsay
... friend!" he urged. "Let me imprint upon your cheeks a baiser or two. You will excuse me if I kiss him, will you not, your Excellency? No, do not resist me, Chichikov, but allow me to imprint at least one baiser upon your lily-white cheek." And in his efforts to force upon Chichikov what he termed his "baisers" he came near to measuring ...
— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
... her eye, With a lover-like sigh, "You are welcome," she murmur'd in tones most bewitching, "To every utensil I have in my kitchen!" Upstarted the Knight, Half mad with delight, Round her finely-form'd waist He immediately placed One arm, which the lady most closely embraced, Of her lily-white fingers the other made capture, And he press'd his adored to his bosom with rapture, "And, oh!" he exclaim'd, "let them go catch my skiff, I'll be home in a twinkling and back in a jiffy, Nor one moment procrastinate longer my journey ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... happiness either to man or frogs! Two days afterwards, as Jumper was crossing a brook, a lily-white duck, who had been concealed by the rushes, flew at him with open ...
— The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg - Second Edition • Unknown |
