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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Here's the breeches an' the purty stockin's an' shoes, an' the lily white shirt.
From In the Days of Poor Richard by Bacheller, Irving
A dream that haunts my memory's sight— Your hair of moonlight, face of snow, And eyes, blue stars of laughing light, O girl, so like a lily white!
From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius