lily-handed

Definitions

1. Characterised by a delicate and pale-skinned beauty.
2. Having hands that are white due to lack of outdoor work; Unaccustomed to physical labor.
3. Fastidious and foppish.

Examples

“For the sake of these "lily-handed maidens so daintily occupied," to use⟳ the editor's words, and for their sakes alone, has he waded through so many pages of dense technicalities from Actinococcus to Wormskioldia.”

“So when he writes : ' When Love⟳ the lily-handed fought with death', it does not mar the beauty of the line to know⟳ that lily-handed was one of Robert Greene's concoctions...”

“Rawlings' defaulter is encumbered, most disgracefully, with the usual blonde, in this case the lily-handed cashier in a motion picture shop⟳;”

““Let⟳ me see⟳ your passport,” said old Bill, “I mean⟳ your hand.” He was looking for the marks of toil. Alas, sometimes for a lily-handed parson!”

“'I know⟳ more than any lily-handed pill-roller from the city,' he gasped as well as he could, trying to raise⟳ himself from the pillow and failing.”

“The fishermen looked at Malcolm, who compared to them seemed incredibly soft and lily-handed.”

“In fact he was a shallow-brained, lily-handed fop, and, as may be supposed, a great favorite with a certain class of ladies who mistake⟳ impertinence for wit, and fine clothes and affected manners for refinement and solid accomplishments.”

“He was no lily-handed gardener, no finger-tip lover,who, with an ivory-handled sécateur, snips off minute dead twigs,and selects a rosebud for his buttonhole, but went about his business with the tender ruthlessness that true gardening demands.”

“Dad Silva had warned his classes, "Don't forget⟳ the country doctor often has to be not only physician but dentist, yes, and priest, divorce lawyer, blacksmith, chauffeur, and road engineer, and if you are too lily-handed for those trades, don't get⟳ out sight of a trolley line and a beauty parlor."”

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