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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The lily white sail be your smock; It becomes your bodie best; Your head sail be buskt wi' gilly-flower, Wi' the primrose in your breast.
From Ballad Book by Bates, Katherine Lee
O Robin, but you are cold— Chilled with the night-dew; so lily white you Look like a stray lamb from our fold.
From The Haunted Hour An Anthology by Widdemer, Margaret