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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The lily white sail be your smock; It becomes your bodie best; Your head sail be buskt wi' gilly-flower, Wi' the primrose in your breast.
From Ballad Book by Bates, Katherine Lee
You could see it in the dishpan glow of his scrubbed forehead, in the spotless flannels and the lily white hands.
From Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Fuhr, Ernest