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“The great, cream-white blooms, a foot in diameter and more, lily-like and wax-like, white beacons of attraction in the dark, penetrating and seducing the night with their perfume, were busy and beautiful with their brief glory of living.”
“But, they are not true lilies, though related and have lily-like trumpet flowers.”
The Huffington Post: Brigitte Mars: Delightful Day Lilies with Brigitte Mars
“Made of clear glass, it was a tube that flared at one end into an open, lily-like shape; its other end was a round, closed bulb.”
“Flowers: Crinum augustum produces loose clusters of 20 to 30 large, lily-like flowers on long, strong stems.”
Coffee, swamp lily and heliconia: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico
“The worm is said to secrete a lily-like smell when handled, spit at predators, and live in burrows 15 feet deep.”
“And ever on the watch from their place of prospect with its fair haven, often from many had they taken away their sweet return, consuming them with wasting desire; and suddenly to the heroes, too, they sent forth from their lips a lily-like voice.”
“Keep in mind that I've met in in mid-day; according to Bill (Ineke's husband and business partner), it is at night time when the flower releases it's lily-like scent into the air, and the yellow variety is the one to look for (the bush I've found being peach coloured may not be as fragrant but I'm bound to check out if it's still in bloom this very evening).”
“Unwearying flows the sweet sound from their lips, and the house of their father Zeus the loud-thunderer is glad at the lily-like voice of the goddesses as it spread abroad, and the peaks of snowy Olympus resound, and the homes of the immortals.”
“So Maud abode in peace with her maids at the seaside cottage, spending the still hours of Dreamland between her rose-garden on the sunny slope to the southward and the conservatory of lily-like nuns on the hill toward the sea.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
“In August there springs up a single stalk from the apparently dead plant, bearing a lily-like bunch of flowers of charming colors.”
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