Also I have accepted the term petal -- but never the word lip -- as applied to flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference

The first petal is aligned with Mecca, to the Southwest of the project site.    From Wordnik.com.  [SUSTAINABLE SPIRE: Twisting Ivory Observation Tower for Dubai | Inhabitat] Reference

He took a silk rose with the American flag screen printed on each petal from a wreath on the grave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bean, James E.] Reference

The centre of the outer line of each petal is drawn out at the edge like the tails on the under wings of the Luna moth.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Island Garden] Reference

Each large outer petal is curved and cup-shaped, yet each has its finishing point which makes the blossom starry, and these eight inner.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Island Garden] Reference

Under the petal is a tinge of purple, which is sometimes faintly visible through it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round About a Great Estate] Reference

She bent her cheek above the blossom, and whether the cheek or the petal were the redder, who should say?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mississippi Bubble] Reference

But this is not strictly correct; for instance, suppose a petal, which is very generally merely the sheath of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

After you fold each "petal," put a little bit of scotch tape on the front and back center.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simple Things.... snowflakes and bows] Reference

At least the Bianchi guy spelled "petal" correctly, although there ought to be a law against sky-blue tires, even if they match your frame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sexy Beast: Everyone's a Rock Star] Reference

Fold up each "petal" overlapping each edge at the right edge as you fold them up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pink Lemonade] Reference

Jordan Parker shows a metal "petal" at various stages … (Photo by Dagney C. Ernest).    From Wordnik.com.  [Knox] Reference

After examining each "petal" closely, it becomes apparent that each petal is a bit more scoop-shaped and green-margined than the next.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

A very slender garland of verse behind him, in which there is scarcely a petal which is not of some permanent value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Diversions of a Man of Letters] Reference

What will your last petal say to him who plucks it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

And became a beautiful woman with crimson petal clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healing Romance of the Rose] Reference

 The lightest touch, like a flower petal falling on my hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fourteen Days In November] Reference

Even the bees laugh at this ridiculous pouncing from petal to petal.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Leaf Is Only Green(A Valentine)] Reference

The petal is thick, almost leathery -- gardeners call this substance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Groundwork: Beguiled by basil] Reference

A petal drops to the ground and I pick it up and put it in my pocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thursday] Reference

Cramer figures and describes a stamen occupying the place of a petal in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

It hangs there limp like a white, wet petal cut loose with gray scissors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fall Apart Stuff] Reference

Give her a crown of the whitest daisies with shell pink petal tips for a crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference

Pluck a petal from a pasque flower, Aldo Leopold once said, and you disturb a star.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dispatch from an Enivironmental Lawyer Who is Trying to Grow a Mustache] Reference

Then, in the morning, right before the competition, I woke to find a petal missing.    From Wordnik.com.  [What People Do With Their Hands] Reference

Once dry, fabric is layered and then die-cut in petal shapes, depending on the requested design.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Garment District Perennial] Reference

They use it in making cakes, and they used it for making (unintelligible) … LYDEN: Rose petal jam.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heritage Rosarium: A Once-A-Year Experience] Reference

 With a slow smile, he pinched a bruised petal from a Queen Elizabeth and flicked it onto the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eclipse] Reference

I said, “If this rose doesn't grow another petal in twenty minutes, I'm burning down the neighborhood.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [What People Do With Their Hands] Reference

Oscar took us back to the milkshake parlors of yesteryear, introducing rose petal dresses and flirty ballgowns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alex Geana: As Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Ends, Oscar Takes the Day (PHOTOS, POLL)] Reference

            Her lips pursed and for the first time I noticed the rose-petal redness circling her eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Insured] Reference

When the last petal falls, the body collapses into ... well, the artist asked us not to divulge the surprise ending.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Jolt to the System] Reference

 He yanked on the string repeatedly, trying to start the engine, but was forgetting to press down on the gas petal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unspoken Bonds] Reference

Grand Portage, with her wondrous beauty and her tongue that could be like a cold knife-blade or the petal of a lily for softness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference

Five rooms in subtle cream have wooden lattices looking onto a courtyard with a small petal-strewn swimming pool and cushioned alcoves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights: stylish places to stay] Reference