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Meanings of lily-white in английском

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1
Semisoft; white; creamy; sharp; historic since the time of the Merovingian kings.
The Complete Book of Cheese
2
Green in the spring, golden in the summer, white in the winter.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature
3
Dirty olive green over the whole back; belly dirty white; scuta 130.
Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and ...
4
In response, the federal government launched its most intensive white-collar criminal investigation.
The new yorker
5
There are roads and curves in the blue and in the white.
The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays
Usage of lily-white in английском
1
Her face, that had been lily-white, was flushed from brow to neck.
A Little Girl in Old Salem
2
Back in the day, Second Ward was the flip side of lily-white Fourth.
Devil Bones
3
But those like Trump can only think of one thing: their lily-white selves.
Ebony
4
Besides do you really think he'd risk his own lily-white neck?
A kiss of shadows
5
The inscrutable Chinese were supposedly behind this dastardly trade in lily-white female flesh.
Moon Over Soho
6
Another party came into power and the lily-white government was established.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
7
No, lily-white Lisle had never once spent a night locked up.
Chosen: a novel
8
They weren't soft and lily-white as a lady's should be, but lightly chapped.
The devil wears plaid
9
He would never dream of sullying his own lily-white hands with Sinclair blood.
The devil wears plaid
10
Think I'm goin' to take her about with a lily-white skin like that?
A Pair of Clogs
11
Watch me, Lizzie, as I pass, and wave your lily-white hand!
The Judgment House
12
And he said he was sorrowing for a lily-white hound that he had lost.
Letters on Literature
13
An almost imperceptible blush tinged her lily-white skin with pink.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 4
14
And then, brother, the faces of the beaux are of such a lily-white hue!
The Contrast
15
In the olden time, one of the London street cries was, 'Fine lily-white onions!'
Chatterbox, 1906
16
I used to believe that Scotland Yard was lily-white.
Life