Citations:lilypond

English citations of lilypond

Noun: "a pond in which water lilies grow"

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• 1939 — James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, page 98:

  He had walked towards the middle of an ornamental lilypond when innebriated up to the point where braced shirts meet knickerbockers, […]

• 1941 — Upton Sinclar, Between Two Worlds I, Simon Publications (2001), →ISBN, page 3:

  Only van Gogh's sunrise and Monet's lilypond had their glories undiminished […]

• 1952 — John Wallace Pritchard, Every Crazy Wind, Dodd, Mead, & Company, page 150:

  Helena saw Lacy again the following afternoon, beside the lilypond.

• 1980 — John Newton Chance, A Place Called Skull, Ulverscroft Large Print Books (2001), →ISBN, page 62:

  We came in sight of the lilypond.

• 1984 — Marian Eldridge, Walking the Dog, University of Queensland Press (1984), →ISBN, page 36:

  Without so much as a backward glance at the house the girl dumped Mother's cherished roses in the lilypond and ran straight across the beds of iris and rosemary to the waiting boy.

• 1997 — Bill Cooper & Laurel Cooper, Back Door to Byzantium: To the Black Sea by the Great Rivers of Europe, Sheridan House (1997), →ISBN, page 58:

  Gustavsburg was like a seaside model village, there was a lilypond outside the Post Office where we bought some stamps (one mark! That's nearly 50 pence for a stamp!) and some fruit and vegetables at a chic fruitique close to a fountain.

• 2000 — Bruce Beasley, "The White Children of Macon", in Signs and Abominations, Wesleyan University Press (2000), →ISBN, page 74:

  In Baconsfield Park, the bear

  and the peacock stared

  from their tiny cages by the cultivated

  bamboo jungle, where we'd play Vietnam,

  hurling pecan bombs on the lilypond.

• 2003 — Mike Parker & Paul Whitfield, Wales, Rough Guides (2003), →ISBN, page 126:

  Seldom busy, the gardens offer everything from formal lilyponds and billiard table-smooth lawns to joyous bursts of floral colour and the russets, golds and greens of an arboretum.

• 2006 — Robert Minhinnick, To Babel and Back, Seren (2006), →ISBN, page 102:

  But Biffer held on tight, speaking of cafes that served liquorice and lemonade, of railway stations where the guards were post-impressionists and the conveniences green and weedy lilyponds.