Sentence examples for lis from inspiring English sources
The spruce was an Eyak dictionary in itself, from lis, the neat, conical tree, to Ge.c, its wiry root, useful for baskets; from Gahdg, its blue-green, flattened needles, which could be brewed up for beer or tea, to sihx, its resin, from which came pitch to make canoes watertight.
To the powers in Hong Kong and Beijing, the Hong Kong Lis are decidedly more palatable than the Singapore Lees.
This was well demonstrated in the MAN show in which Bobby Abley combined teddy bear silhouettes, fleur de lis and Disney-fied birds in his collection of urban sportswear.
LiS has no desire to add insult to injury where Paltrow is concerned: doubtless the swashbuckling boudoir adventures of rock's swingingest bachelor will be difficult listening for his ex.
No, LiS wants it to be true – Rock's Greatest Showman and TV's Mr Nick-Nick, nostrils twitching, frantically formulating plans to head at once to Guernsey – and lives in hope of similar revelations from showbiz's past, eg: Jimmy Cricket shooting speed with Lou Reed.
This week, LiS has been wondering what about the men, as a group of male celebrities have had their physical appearances judged and analysed and picked over as if they were – imagine this – female celebrities.
A red, white and blue Serbian flag flies from the bell tower of an orthodox church; at the bus station, a Bosniak fleur-de-lis is spraypainted on a wall.
During the primary, the Republicans ran television advertisements that attacked Ms Landrieu for living amid walls festooned with "elegant fleur-de-lis wallpaper" in a "million-dollar Washington mansion".
The provincial motto, emblazoned on every car's number plate, is "Je me souviens" (I remember)—an allusion to a poem with the bitter line, "I remember that I was born under the fleur-de-lis and grew up under the rose".
At another dive bar in the southwest of the city, Seth, a heavily tattooed smoker in a fleur-de-lis baseball cap, says that a ban "would hurt a little, I guess, but I'd just go outside".
A number of early plates displayed the Royalist fleur-de-lis, but these were soon replaced by countless Republican phrases and symbols.
