lily-frail

Meanings

adjective

Very frail.
She leaned against me, so light and lily-frail, and as her trembling eased away it seemed as though I became aware of prodigious strength.
1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC

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