Example Sentences

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"Why, this way," said Kate, leaning to straighten and arrange the delicate velvet petalled roses with her sure, work-abused fingers.

From A Daughter of the Land by Stratton-Porter, Gene

As a breath, a sigh Fall the petals of hours, of the white-leafed flowers, Fall the petalled wings of the butterfly.

From Georgian Poetry 1918-19 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir

But the skipper only shook his petalled skull.

From The Devil's Asteroid by Wellman, Manly Wade

Wide petalled, burning red, their golden hearts open to sun and bee, they were the blossoms for the earth-woman.

From Judith of the Cumberlands by MacGowan, Alice

Lo the petalled leafage is finer, under the feet The coarse soil with a rainbow's worth Of delicate colours lies enamelled, Translucently glowing, shining.

From Georgian Poetry 1918-19 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir