The lilies, it turned out, contained a poison, later dubbed cyclopamine, that stunted developing lamb embryos.
Directly below them, lilies soar up from a vase to symbolize the Virgin's purity.
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She said lilies were smaller and not as colorful and all of the vegetables were smaller.
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Among them was a bunch of lilies from Sir Paul McCartney and his children.
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Take the lilies and the lace from the days of childhood, all the willow winding paths leading up and outward.
One of them, Lynn James, lived with the sheep for three summers before discovering the culprit: corn lilies.
Casa blanca lilies, for example, are "a big, beautiful flower that's amazing but is sometimes overbearing, " he says.
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Think skimming over endless fields of purple water lilies and pink lotus blossoms, not bumping past acacia tress.
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Savvy Thai entrepreneurs are looking at everything from the export of lilies to elephant rides via the Internet.
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The water is fringed by ferny groves and pond-dotted gardens that nurture azaleas, camellias, hydrangeas, ginger lilies and endangered cycad trees.
The most popular flower searches after roses were orchids, lilies, tulips and carnations.
"It took me some time to understand my water lilies, " the artist is quoted in the catalog as saying.
The effect is of looking into a pool, as if Frankenthaler were painting her response to one of Claude Monet's water lilies.
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Dreaming of Julia is among the serious contenders to wear the blanket of lilies that goes to the winner of the Kentucky Oaks.
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Reynolds has also received permission to plant tiger lilies, poppies or whatever other flower he wants in the beds below his tower block in Southwark.
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Go visit the Prairies in June, when for scores on scores of miles you wade knee-deep among Tiger-lilies what is the one charm wanting?
Aside from boosting oxygen, indoor plants such as yuccas, lilies and palms also remove airborne toxins emitted by carpets, furniture, paints, and other synthetic products in the office.
His pictures of lilies and gladiolus from the 1940s, their stamens reaching from within their sensuous centers, presage the famous flower pictures Robert Mapplethorpe made four decades later.
The first green of evening, my mother had always called it, sitting on the back step at home, watching the Peruvian lilies and the montbretia fade into the gloaming.
Inside the courtyard, bluestone pavers and grass crisscross on the ground and Italian cypresses, olive trees, rosemary bushes and boxwoods serve as the backdrop to lilies, jasmine, hydrangeas and delphiniums.
Funded by Natural England, the Broads Authority hopes stonewort, pondweed and lilies will return to the area, along with a more diverse selection of fish and birds including the booming bittern.
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But visitors found paintings including Monet's Water Lilies and works by Picasso, Klimt and Henry Moore replaced by the message, while the details of some rooms would not load at all.
Although your villa is perfect for loafing in utter privacy, you'll definitely be drawn to the main "piazza" of this magical village, a large cliff-side reflecting pool with "islands" exploding in flamboyant lilies and frangipani.
The coda lies across the Tiber, within the hallowed walls of the Pantheon, where tributes of flowers - roses, lilies and roses again - are daily offered to Raphael, enclosed in his carved marble tomb.
In 1992, she launched her own fragrance, called "Cashmere Mist, " the directive for which was that it should smell like "Casablanca lilies, red suede and the back of Stephan's neck, " referring to her second husband, Stephan Weiss.
Roses with their thorns stuck out everywhere, and the lilies, whose columnar stalks the girl had bunched at the center, shot up through the top of the bouquet like, like, like like insane trees towering above some insane world, he thought.
In addition to Lilies of the Field, I suppose the, really the role for which he's often still best known is Virgil Tibbs, the Philadelphia cop who comes down to Mississippi, where the local white police chief, Chief Gillespie is played by Rod Steiger, In the Heat of the Night.
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