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«By cool Siloam's shady rill / How sweet the lily grows! / How sweet the breath beneath the hill / Of Sharon's dewy rose!»
«As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters»
Author: Solomon Ibn Gabirol ben Judah
(Jewish Leader, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
daughters, lily, thorns
«If you believed yourself to be a writer of eminence, you are now assured of being over the hill-not a sturdy mountain flower but a little wilted lily of the valley.»
Author: William H. Gass
| Keywords:
assured, eminence, lily, over-the-hill, sturdy, the Hill, The Valley, valley, wilted
«Angel-duck, angel-duck, winged and silly, / Pouring a watering-pot over a lily.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
duck, lily, pot, pouring, watering, watering pot, water lily, winged
«If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
| Keywords:
bread, buy, buying and selling, lily, loaf of bread, loaves, sell
«Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
distinguished, esteemed, floating, gall, insects, leaf, lily, midsummer, oftentimes, ornament, pad, padded, riddled, shrub, shrubs
«For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily, and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. Or was it, maybe, a frost that had turned its sap to ice, and so it stood, bitter-sweet, still fair to see, but stricken, soon to fall and die?»
«'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
addressing, Alice, gracefully, lily, talking to, The Tiger, tiger, tiger lily, waving
«But Shakespeare also says, 'tis very silly / `To gild refin?d gold, or paint the lily'.»
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