lily-frail

lily-frail

1. Very frail.
   • 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:

     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.