Tiger Lily

Lilies are another great example – even though some lilies are pink or orange like the tiger-lily, their scent is so heavy and narcotic they would be considered white florals as well. ❋ Ayala Sender (2007)

She fluttered toward the tailor shop, dashed into its slovenly heat with the comic fastidiousness of a humming bird dipping into a dry tiger-lily. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Sunflower yellow, blue-bonnet blue, tiger-lily orange. ❋ Cynthia Rowley (2002)

Two kinds there are, -- one like the tiger-lily of the gardens, the petals curled back and showing the whole leopard-spotted corolla, -- the other bell-shaped, rarer, and growing one only on a stalk. ❋ Various (N/A)

I have even fancied that if I could steal a feather from the living opal swinging like a jeweled pendulum from the heart of the great tiger-lily which nods its turbaned head so stately within the mosquito-net cage standing upon the little table, my poor lines would gather a certain beauty from the rainbow-tinted quill with which I might trace them. ❋ Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (N/A)

When the goldenrod flings its velvet cushions along the edge of the copses, or when the dandelion spangles the meadows, they are things of beauty as well as any tulip or tiger-lily. ❋ Frederick Philip Grove (N/A)

There was the full contour of the limbs hid under warm green folds, the white flesh that glowed when you touched it as if some smothered heat lay beneath, the sleeping face, the amber hair uncoiled in a languid quiet, while yellow jasmines deepened its hue into molten sunshine, and a great tiger-lily laid its sultry head on her breast. ❋ Various (N/A)

We caught an apostolic boat-load of beauties fresh and blooming as Aurora, silver as the morning star, gemmy with eye-spots as a tiger-lily. ❋ Various (N/A)

Lily Bernstein was a tiger-lily -- all browns and golds and creams, all graciousness and warmth and lovely curves. ❋ Edna Ferber (1926)

Gradually he was drifting back into his first queer moment of antagonism -- he felt urged to conquest, not merely for the gratification of his vanity nor even for the attainment of his desire, but for the satisfaction of seeing her humbled, all her pride and glow and glory at his feet, like a tiger-lily in the dust. ❋ Sheila Kaye-Smith (1921)

Then bucks flaunt tiger-lily ties and watchet suits, ❋ Hervey Allen (1919)

She was very much at home here, and loved each flower, from the delicate, fragrant mignonette to the gaily-coloured, boisterous tiger-lily. ❋ Unknown (1910)

I thought and felt very beautifully of Terry, and always shall, for I have made an ideal of him, and his grand, noble head, like a blazing tiger-lily perched upon a delicate and slender stem, will always be for me the greatest, most wonderful recollection of all the years. ❋ Hutchins Hapgood (1906)

Fuller transformed into a being who was a poppy and a tiger-lily and a snow-queen and a rose, but she and her company, including Marc ❋ Vachel Lindsay (1905)

She brushed her hair till it shone like a tiger-lily, and piled it on her small head in great plaits. ❋ Mary Gladys Meredith Webb (1904)

He stopped in his tracks when he saw the most perfect thing to find for his wife. [The Tiger] Lily, which [reminded] him of her beauty and grace, along with her [fiery] persona. ❋ Mr. Sanders (2010)

"I'm gonna tiger lily this [dame]." "She will get the tiger [lilying] [of a lifetime]!" ❋ Brent K (2006)

[Heavenly] [Hiraani] Tiger Lily Hutchence ❋ Baj123 (2007)

Tom: Have you ever [dated] a Tiger Lili? John: Yeah, I fucked one last night! Tom: [Oh you] [lucky boy] ❋ Hggrxhgkjhlkihfa Iabsbc (2011)

Peter had to [rescue] [Princess Tiger Lily] from [Captain Hook]. ❋ CelestiaTheFallen (2014)