...All thecountry round was silent as the grave, and the air of the June night was softand sweet as the petals of wild roses... 
A. J. Dawson 「Finn The Wolfhound」
... cups grew so thickly that the glazed petals of the flowers were touching; the meadow was one broad expanse of brilliant yellow...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...How curiously this flower looks, with its deep blue petals folded together so tightly—a bud and yet a blossom...
John Burroughs 「Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and, Other Papers」
...During the immersion, the festooned coronet shuts like a flower closing its petals and the liquid is not admitted to the cavity...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...The droning of the busy swarm fills the flowery vault, while a snow of petals falls softly to the foot of the tree...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...Nearly a quarter of a century ago, I saw her, all through the month of July, cutting out her rounds and ellipses at the expense of the petals of the Pelargonium zonale, the common geranium...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...The white petals scattered on vigorous branches had longtypified an inner soul, whose purity was the very likeness of virtue andof tenderness...
Raphael Petrucci Frances Seaver 「Chinese Painters」
...), and I think you will feel that its domed form, andthe flat lying of the petals one over the other, in the vaulted roof ofit, can be seen better thus than if they had been painted scarlet...
John Ruskin 「Lectures on Art」
...Cultivation had increased the numberof petals, but it had diminished the richness of the colouring...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...The four great sheaves of light give it a squareappearance, and are made up of rays or plumes, delicate like the petals of aflower...
George Forbes 「History of Astronomy」
...PROSTRATA, and petals narrower...
Thomas Mitchell 「Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia」
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