tiger-lily

Lilies are another great example – even though some lilies are pink or orange like the tiger-lily, their scent is so heavy and narcotic they would be considered white florals as well.

Archive 2007-10-01 Ayala Sender 2007

Lilies are another great example – even though some lilies are pink or orange like the tiger-lily, their scent is so heavy and narcotic they would be considered white florals as well.

The Many Colours of White Ayala Sender 2007

She fluttered toward the tailor shop, dashed into its slovenly heat with the comic fastidiousness of a humming bird dipping into a dry tiger-lily.

Main Street 2004

Sunflower yellow, blue-bonnet blue, tiger-lily orange.

Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002

Sunflower yellow, blue-bonnet blue, tiger-lily orange.

Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002

Sunflower yellow, blue-bonnet blue, tiger-lily orange.

Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002

Two kinds there are, -- one like the tiger-lily of the gardens, the petals curled back and showing the whole leopard-spotted corolla, -- the other bell-shaped, rarer, and growing one only on a stalk.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

I have even fancied that if I could steal a feather from the living opal swinging like a jeweled pendulum from the heart of the great tiger-lily which nods its turbaned head so stately within the mosquito-net cage standing upon the little table, my poor lines would gather a certain beauty from the rainbow-tinted quill with which I might trace them.

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

When the goldenrod flings its velvet cushions along the edge of the copses, or when the dandelion spangles the meadows, they are things of beauty as well as any tulip or tiger-lily.

Over Prairie Trails Frederick Philip Grove

We caught an apostolic boat-load of beauties fresh and blooming as Aurora, silver as the morning star, gemmy with eye-spots as a tiger-lily.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various