Lily Handed

"Well, I'd like to see any lily-handed doctor guy from the outside face the river trail in the winter," said Ben bitterly. ❋ Hulbert Footner (1911)

Rawlings 'defaulter is encumbered, most disgracefully, with the usual blonde, in this case the lily-handed cashier in a motion picture shop; and a man of Rawlings' intelligence would know at a glance that we are not villains of that breed. ❋ Meredith Nicholson (1906)

She is also being asked to be very lily-handed and ladylike and dainty about it all. ❋ Unknown (1903)

And he himself had furnished the lily-handed stranger with the information that he had been stigmatized "Em'ly" in the banter of his associates, until he had taken up arms, as it were, to repress this derision. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)

Some of you lily-handed chicken heads are actually present at the practices. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I have watched, weighed, studied you; searched every stray record of your fair young life, found the clear pages all pure; and I have doubted, marvelled that you, lily - hearted, lily-souled, lily-handed, could cast the pearl of your love down in the mire, to be trampled by swinish feet. " ❋ Unknown (1872)

The other day i was reading about this [gurl] who [stays] up all hours of the night while everyone is sleeping, [cleaning] her lili hands. ❋ Deodorant Man (2008)