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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Kendall's pose of lily white virtue amuses me.
From Possessed by Moffett, Cleveland
June’s lily white face fairly blazed with crimson, and Guy, seeing her confusion, begged her pardon.
From Zula by Lindley, H. Esselstyn