" He found Mary in the garden gathering roses and sprinkling the petals on a sheet.
" She blushed and looked at him as the garden flowers look at us when we walk forth happily among them in the transcendent evening light: is there not a soul beyond utterance, half nymph, half child, in those delicate petals which glow and breathe about the centres of deep color?
" Lydgate was almost forgetting that he must carry on the conversation, in thinking how lovely this creature was, her garment seeming to be made out of the faintest blue sky, herself so immaculately blond, as if the petals of some gigantic flower had just opened and disclosed her; and yet with this infantine blondness showing so much ready, self-possessed grace.
They were big, rose petals, blown up with air until they were like little pink and red balloons, and tied around with a string, just as you tie a paper bag around the neck, after you've blown it up, to burst it, and when those rose-torpedoes were cracked down on a flat stone—my!
Every south wind purring through the boughs will winnow away a shower of slender petals.
By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Its heart beats in floral rhythm, composed of silky and intoxicating gardenia, delicate violet, and jasmine petals.
Its base is shaped like lotus flower petals.
FLOWERS Soft, rounded petals around a circular flower centre suggest an amiable, family-centric person.
The gently curled petals of hyacinths, the daffodils' fluted cups, skillfully fashioned crocuses and violets - work one would expect from a child much older.
As the eastern sky started unfolding like the 3)crimson petals of a gigantic flower, I was overcome by a wave of romantic feelings and nostalgia—vivid memorie not diminished by the fact that almost ten years had passed.
I wondered why I had no idea of some unyielding lifesprouting over the fallen petals when I was grieving for thehibiscus.
Sweet fillings are made of sugar, walnuts, sesame, osmanthus flowers, rose petals, sweetened tangerine peel, bean paste or jujube paste.
It lasted for the time fairly long, and when theycame out of the trance and looked around, they found there not a single soul butnumerous crimson rose petals flying around as if announcing, "Be a dreamer, foryou are what your dreams are.
Ned remembered the way she had smiled then, how tightly her fingers had clutched his as she gave up her hold on life, ,,, the rose petals spilling from her palm, dead and black.
Daisies, for example, had 34, 55 or 89 petals.
I wondered why I had no idea of some unyielding life sprouting over the fallen petals when I was grieving for the hibiscus.
Unicycle, unicycle, beautiful and kind, like the petals on a flower wheeling through my mind.
According to one, carnation may be a corruption of coronation, perhaps because the flower's toothed petals resembled crowns or because the flowers were worn, crown-like, as garlands.
" To reconstruct the appearance of the first flower, the scientists recorded the features - such as the petals and sepals - of the flowers from 792 living species.
