"Lilied" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... remembered aroma of peat-smoke. And the rivers of home are dear in particular to all men. 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. But the streams of Scotland are incomparable in themselves—or I am only the more Scottish to suppose so—and their sound and colour dwell for ever in the memory. How often and willingly do I not look again in fancy ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... lilied field: Lo, here the Hermian plain: What need we save the Doric shield To stop the ...
— Ionica • William Cory (AKA William Johnson) |
