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They wouldn't get past its lacily alliterative first line — "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins" — with its carefully balanced pairings ( "light/fire," "life/loins").

Lolita At 50, And Forever Young 2008

Farther off, several scattered towers reared twenty or thirty meters above the forest, iridescent and lacily graceful where ivylike growth had not overrun them.

Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998

Roofs were hung from supports strung lacily above instead of being supported by pillars from beneath.

The Hour of the Gate Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

It was a peaceful, beautiful world that met our eyes as the Island Princess stood through the Straits and up the east coast of Sumatra; the air was warm and pleasant, and the leaves of the tufted palms, lacily interwoven, were small in the distance like the fronds of ferns in our own land.

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

He could see it hollowing away from the tree trunks and just ahead of the gun, before his eyes, the snow surface was damp and lacily fragile as the heat of the sun melted the top and the warmth of the earth breathed warmly up at the snow that lay upon it.

For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

He could see it hollowing away from the tree trunks and just ahead of the gun, before his eyes, the snow surface was damp and lacily fragile as the heat of the sun melted the top and the warmth of the earth breathed warmly up at the snow that lay upon it.

For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

The music was behind a screen of lacily carved sandalwood.

Jimgrim Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1931

Springtime seen lacily through a phantasmagoria of song.

Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

Then, finally, and against the frantic negative pantomime of his manager, a scherzo, played so lacily that it swept the house in lightest laughter.

Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928

No wax doll was ever more daintily and lacily dressed.

Georgina of the Rainbows 1897