"Easter lily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... back: she is sixteen, with braids down her back. She carries an Easter lily in a pot. Without seeing, or pretending not to see Benjamin, she puts the lily on the dining table and then goes and gets a water-bottle from the sideboard and waters the plant. Then seats herself near dining table right opposite ...
— Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter • August Strindberg
... sweet as an Easter lily—stood before her like an incarnate memory, pointing toward the past, the far-distant past, when she, too, was young, and pretty, and innocent, and gay—too pretty and too gay for a poor working girl! That was where the ...
— A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others • Various
... reposoirs, and the children and the fine ladies walking—through the streets, and then, all kneeling—when Monseigneur l'Archeveque prays. Ah yes, it is a fine sight." They nod, and smile, and then they turn to light a taper, and to consult about the placing of a certain vase from out of which an Easter lily towers. ...
— In and Out of Three Normady Inns • Anna Bowman Dodd |
