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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"You might as well say that the root of a rose is red, and of a lily white," said No. 3.
From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by Newman, John Henry
Yes, I know ... and of course," Miss Mines said, "you aren't necessarily so lily white either.
From The Star Hyacinths by Finlay, Virgil