blue lips

noun

1. a plant, Collinsia grandiflora, of the figwort family, of western central North America, having short-stalked flowers with the upper lip purple or white and the lower lip blue or violet.

Example Sentences

The beggar stared at me with his bloodshot eyes; his blue lips smiled; and he in his turn gripped my chilly fingers.

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Presently I saw his blue lips again, breathing on the tinder, and then a flare of light flashed up, and showed me Orlick.

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He does not laugh; he breathes heavily, fast, and with wheezing; he is licking his blue lips with his tongue.

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A shower of cold rain blew up-wind straight in their faces and made the teeth chatter behind their blue lips.

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Still, he looked at the childrens blue lips and pinched cheeks, I wish that your hearth were wider.

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