Petals

Examples

• They came forth at last in a little high table-land of snow, where stood the last peaks of snow like the heart petals of an open rose. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He found Mary in the garden gathering roses and sprinkling the petals on a sheet. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• When the colour is absent from only one of the two upper petals, the nectary is not quite aborted but is much shortened. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The petals in the imperfect flowers almost always consist of mere rudiments, and the pollen-grains are reduced in diameter. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In regard to plants, the petals are sometimes rudimentary, and sometimes well developed in the individuals of the same species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Another richer than I desires to wed thee, Therefore do I shed tears, as the rose sheds her crimson petals. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Why should the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils, in each flower, though fitted for such distinct purposes, be all constructed on the same pattern? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The dripping leaves and branches, and the moist petals of gorgeous flowers glistened in the splendor of the returning day. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Caroline rent the Tyrian petals of the one brilliant flower in her bouquet, and answered in distinct tones, Decidedly he is. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Her cheek glowed as if a crimson flower through whose petals the sun shone had cast its light upon it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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