gilly

Example Sentences

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Then he looked at the garden and saw that it was full of jessamine and gilly flowers and violets and roses and orange blossoms and all manner sweet-scented blooms and herbs.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

I am the gilly of Christ, The mate of Mary’s Son; I run the roads at seeding time, And when the harvest’s done.

From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh

The rose is red, the violet blue, The gilly flower sweet, and so are you.

From The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes by Various

"You must throw your fly, madam," said the gilly, always very polite.

From Pomona's Travels A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former Handmaiden by Stockton, Frank Richard

I am the gilly of Christ, The mate of Mary’s Son; I run the roads at seeding time, And when the harvest’s done.

From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh