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MANFRED: considerate lilia agri quomodo crescunt non laborant nec nent.

A Break for Laziness Fresca 2010

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A DIFFERENT ASIAN FETISH » Sociological Images 2009

Rough Castle, near Falkirk, is very much smaller; it is remarkable for the astonishing [v. 04 p. 0584] strength of its turf-built and earthen ramparts and ravelins, and for a remarkable series of defensive pits, reminiscent of Caesar's _lilia_ at Alesia, plainly intended to break an enemy's charge, and either provided with stakes to impale the assailant or covered over with hurdles or the like to deceive him.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

Iuppiter et toto concepit pectore flammas: emicuere rosae violaeque et molle cyperon, albaque de viridi riserunt lilia prato: talis humus Venerem molles clamavit in herbas, candidiorque dies secreto favit amori (127);

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

Non sic prata nouo uere decentia aestatis calidae despoliat uapor, 5 saeuit solstitio cum medius dies et noctes breuibus praecipitant rotis languescunt folio et lilia pallido: ut gratae capiti deficiunt comae et fulgor teneris qui radiat genis10 momento rapitur nullaque non dies formonsi spolium corporis abstulit. res est forma fugax: quis sapiens bono confidat fragili? dum licet, utere. tempus te tacitum subruit, horaque15 semper praeterita deterior subit.

Fatal Beauty 1912

_Manibus o date lilia plenis_ (Oh! give lilies with full hands).

Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 1902

* Pallere ligustra,/Exspirare rosas, decrescere lilia vidi.

Greek Studies: a Series of Essays Walter Pater 1866

Vonka foki nastis chin lende adre lilia, rikkerena lende aduro adre lendros sherria.

The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

From its source to its junction with the solitary Mississippi the Abbé had planted upon its conspicuous bluffs the ensigns of France, with tablets of lead bearing the fleur-de-lis and the proud inscription, "Manibus date lilia plenis," -- lilies destined, after a fierce struggle for empire, to be trampled into the earth by the feet of the victorious English.

The Golden Dog William Kirby 1861

The dry land of this age presented cycadeae, "a beautiful class of plants between the palms and conifers, having a tall, straight trunk, terminating in a magnificent crown of foliage." {108b} There were tree ferns, but in smaller proportion than in former ages; also equisetaceae, lilia, and conifers.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836