lily-white
Example Sentences
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I think I get your overall point, but I don't believe it is fully fitting to characterize Evangelicalism as "the lily white religion."
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2017
My face is lily white because I can't go off to the Bahamas on a holiday.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The book was parodic frontier realism, a Frederic Remington painting with the colors put in by numbers: courageous red, sky blue, lily white and Zane gray.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Lips as red as pomegranates And a curved nose lily white, Limbs as slender and as cool As some green oasis-palm.
From Atta Troll by Heine, Heinrich
The lily white shall be your smock, Becomes your body neat; And your head shall be deck’d with jelly-flower, And the primrose in your breast.
From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Sidgwick, Frank