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He studied his own clothing: a bronze breastplate embossed with the crest of a lilylike flower over a suede black jerkin stitched with a fine needle.

String Theory, Book 3: Evolution Heather Jarman 2006

She drew back, loosening the grip of her hands, while her avid gaze studied the lilylike beauty of the sorrowful face.

Undesirables 1915

The desert flowered gayly with the purple, pink, and scarlet blossoms of the cacti and with the white, lilylike buds of the Spanish bayonet.

Oh, You Tex! William MacLeod Raine 1912

The white, lilylike flowers of the Spanish bayonet flaunted themselves everywhere.

Oh, You Tex! William MacLeod Raine 1912

The violent rain beat down the fragile lilylike plants, the wind rooted them up or tore them in two, and collected them in heaps, which rolled along increasing in size as they went, and crushing other flowers in their path.

Historical Miniatures August Strindberg 1880

A few of the proscribed ingredients are important synthetics, such as lyral, a molecule widely used in perfumes to create a lilylike floral note.

Wired Top Stories jmckeel 2011

It turns out though, experts say, the worm is not a giant, nor does it have a lilylike scent.

NYT > Home Page By JIM ROBBINS 2010

It turns out though, experts say, the worm is not a giant, nor does it have a lilylike scent.

NYT > Home Page By JIM ROBBINS 2010

The chaste beauty of the Virgin, her hands of lilylike purity, the tenderly impassioned countenance of the saint, the very realistic and manly portrait of the donor (Francesco del Pugliese), the vast and strange landscape where the apparition takes place — all form an absolutely novel harmony in Florentine painting, and one which Leonardo da Vinci in his "Virgin of the Rocks" did little more than embellish, without allowing the beholder to lose sight of the model.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Lay your lilylike long his shoulder but buck back if he buts bolder and just hep your homely hop and heed no horning but if you’ve got some brainy notion to raise cancan and rouse commotion I’ll be apt to flail that tail for you till it’s borning.

Finnegans Wake 2006