"Liliaceous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not the slightest desire to let them know us more particularly; and so travelled on, glad, at length, to hear their "Aya minyas" grow fainter, and that we were leaving them behind. About five miles further south, the perfume from the liliaceous banks of the river was the first indication of its vicinity. We found it full 400 yards broad, presenting its usual characteristics,—several separate channels and ponds of water; there, according to the barometer, ...
— Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia • Thomas Mitchell
... their seeds, but undecayed, still seemed to be in bloom from the numerous corolla-like involucres and whorls of chaffy scales of the composite. In May, the bees found in flower only a few deep-set liliaceous plants ...
— The Mountains of California • John Muir |
