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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The rose, so ruddy in the light, Bends on its stem all rayless now, And by its side the lily white A sister shadow, seems to bow: Good night—good night.
From Poems by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)
And now indeed Hope, holy sister, swept through the poet's sky in crown of gold and robe of lily white.
From Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century by Marshall, Emma