lily-pads

Overhanging trees, bullrushes, lily-pads and water-rats.

We're all hooked on fishing now 2010

The magic place was deserted: there was no sound but the plash of the water on the lily-pads, and a distant drift of music that might have been blown across a sleeping lake.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

The magic place was deserted: there was no sound but the plash of the water on the lily-pads, and a distant drift of music that might have been blown across a sleeping lake.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

The magic place was deserted: there was no sound but the plash of the water on the lily-pads, and a distant drift of music that might have been blown across a sleeping lake.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

He had been feeding the carp, coaxing the old sullen king of the pool to come to his hand from its lair under the lily-pads.

Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

Sometimes great shade-trees met above, and we glided through green caves; sometimes we pushed through lily-pads in open pools; the river has many branches there.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

But when slumber held them, when the murmur increased to a surge of sound, sank to a ripple and again rolled forth, in their dreams they imagined it the scurrying of a deer's hoofs along some lonely forest deer-path, the rustling of a buck through bushes, the splashing of a mighty moose among lily-pads and grasses at the margin of a dark pond, the startled cluck of a coon.

Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook

Above the town, just beyond the red iron bridge, the river made a great bend and widened into a lake where the banks were willow-grown, and reeds and rushes and grasses and lily-pads pushed far out into mid-stream, leaving only a narrow channel of clear water.

The Long Ago

The musician plucked one of the cup-like lily-pads and filled it with the water for Eline.

The Strange Little Girl A Story for Children V. M.

In summer moose feed about the ponds and streams, on the long grasses and lily-pads.

Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook