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Example sentences for: lilies

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Wouldn't padding--even thin--be gilding the lilies?
All this soft-focus packaging conveys the popular image of Claude Monet (1840-1926) as the painter of weekend pleasures, puttering around in his aqueous garden and filling his canvases with sunlit lilies reflected in the pink and blue water--a rococo Fragonard or Boucher marooned in the early 20 th century.
Featuring the random deaths of young children, fatal automobile accidents, a suicide, and a lot of after-death romping amid watercolored lilies, it's about as deadly as a movie can be without literally emitting mustard gas.
The result is a bewilderingly beautiful phantasmagoria of fountains, lakes, rock gardens, trees, and flowers: the Sunken Garden, with symmetrical Trees of Life and rockery of gentian, saxifrage, and Lebanon candytuft; the Rose Garden, at its best in July, boasting 150 varieties of hybrid tea and floribunda roses; the Japanese Gardens, with scarlet azaleas, Himalayan blue poppies, weeping larch, and pond with a couple of cranes to bring you good luck; and the dreamy Italian Garden, cypresses singing a song of Tuscany around a cruciform basin filled with water lilies, where once was Mr. and Mrs. Butchart’s tennis court.
Important guests were received in the exquisite Bale Kambang, a pavilion surrounded by water to give the appearance that it is floating among the water lilies.