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
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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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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He rent the sheet upon her face,115 A little aboon her chin; With lily white cheek, and lemin' eyne, She lookt and laugh'd to him.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
The sky is dark, and dark the bay below Save where the midnight city's pallid glow Lies like a lily white On the black pool of night.
From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics by Knowles, Frederic Lawrence