He had walked towards the middle of an ornamental lilypond when innebriated up to the point where braced shirts meet knickerbockers, […]
1941 — Upton Sinclar, Between Two Worlds I, Simon Publications (2001), →ISBN, page 3:
Only van Gogh's sunrise and Monet's lilypond had their glories undiminished […]
1952 — John Wallace Pritchard, Every Crazy Wind, Dodd, Mead, & Company, page 150:
Helena saw Lacy again the following afternoon, beside the lilypond.
1980 — John Newton Chance, A Place Called Skull, Ulverscroft Large Print Books (2001), →ISBN, page 62:
We came in sight of the lilypond.
1984 — Marian Eldridge, Walking the Dog, University of Queensland Press (1984), →ISBN, page 36:
Without so much as a backward glance at the house the girl dumped Mother's cherished roses in the lilypond and ran straight across the beds of iris and rosemary to the waiting boy.
1997 — Bill Cooper & Laurel Cooper, Back Door to Byzantium: To the Black Sea by the Great Rivers of Europe, Sheridan House (1997), →ISBN, page 58:
Gustavsburg was like a seaside model village, there was a lilypond outside the Post Office where we bought some stamps (one mark! That's nearly 50 pence for a stamp!) and some fruit and vegetables at a chic fruitique close to a fountain.
2000 — Bruce Beasley, "The White Children of Macon", in Signs and Abominations, Wesleyan University Press (2000), →ISBN, page 74:
In Baconsfield Park, the bear
and the peacock stared
from their tiny cages by the cultivated
bamboo jungle, where we'd play Vietnam,
hurling pecan bombs on the lilypond.
2003 — Mike Parker & Paul Whitfield, Wales, Rough Guides (2003), →ISBN, page 126:
Seldom busy, the gardens offer everything from formal lilyponds and billiard table-smooth lawns to joyous bursts of floral colour and the russets, golds and greens of an arboretum.
2006 — Robert Minhinnick, To Babel and Back, Seren (2006), →ISBN, page 102:
But Biffer held on tight, speaking of cafes that served liquorice and lemonade, of railway stations where the guards were post-impressionists and the conveniences green and weedy lilyponds.
