Lilied

A friend of mine suggested that "lilied" was peculiarly appropriate to form "cold nymphs chaste crowns," from its imputed power as a preserver of chastity: and in MR. HALLIWELL'S folio, several examples are quoted from old poets of "peony" spelt "piony;" and of both _peony_ and _lily_ as ❋ Various (N/A)

This is as old as Naaman, who was jealous for Abana and Pharpar; it is confined to no race nor country, for I know one of Scottish blood but a child of Suffolk, whose fancy still lingers about the lilied lowland waters of that shire. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Whereas the sonata opened upon a dawn of lilied meadows, parting its slender whiteness to suspend itself over the frail and yet consistent mingling of a rustic bower of honeysuckle with white geraniums, it was upon continuous, level surfaces like those of the sea that, in the midst of a stormy morning beneath an already lurid sky, there began, in an eery silence, in an infinite void, this hew masterpiece, and it was into ❋ Unknown (2003)

She is what I would still abhor — an name would blacken her lilied bosom and wither all the roses that spread that face of beauty! ❋ Unknown (1999)

The splendors of the Queen's rooms in Babylon, the fretted lattices and lilied fishpond, were twelve years away; all she had of them were Stateira's casket and jewels. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1981)

He was still staring vaguely about him when night curtained the lilied pool and the stars flashed brightly overhead. ❋ Leona Dalrymple (N/A)

When the evening star flashed silver in the lilied pool, Carl sat alone. ❋ Leona Dalrymple (N/A)

Surely, then, the reading of the first folio is a mere typographical error, and _peonied_ and _lilied_ the most poetical and correct. ❋ Various (N/A)

Hanmer proposed "peonied;" Heath, "lilied;" and MR. HALLIWELL admits this is more poetical (and surely more correct), but appears to prefer "twilled," embroidered or interwoven with flowers. ❋ Various (N/A)

They cripple and distort the feet of their highborn daughters until they crush out all the power and gracefulness of nature in the artificial formation of what they term a "golden lily"; but they never expect these golden-lilied women to make their withered feet useful. ❋ Joel Dorman Steele (N/A)

The great object of the war was to wrest Flanders from France; when the lilied standard floated on ❋ Various (N/A)

Unlocking a door, he led them through a tunnel to a grilled gate, through the bars of which they saw the Castle's terraced rose-gardens, falling away steeply in a cascade of petals to a water-lilied, green-scummed moat which encircled the stronghold like a necklace of jade. ❋ Coningsby Dawson (1921)

By lilied pools where the bull moose cools and wallows in huge content; ❋ Unknown (1916)

Out of the lilied dusk at the firelight's invitation. ❋ Thomas Burke (1915)

Page 152 had come to pass — was true; when I looked upon the sweet, shy face of my girl bride and saw it transformed into the sacred tenderness of motherhood, saw the grace and charm, the soul-born protecting look in the mother eyes, the lilied sweetness of her face, the smile of unlanguaged mystery, with a gentleness and patience as sweet and meek as Mother Mary wore. ❋ Unknown (1913)

In the white lilied coffin, and rained down our tears; ❋ Various (1912)

Beyond that, and lower still, a lilied pond widened out of the sluggish brook with a cool and rustic spring-house at one end. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)

They stood by the bridge of a little river, and he flung Guise's jewel far into its lilied waters. ❋ John Buchan (1907)