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  • With his left hand, he seized the harness of its rider and buried him over thirty feet, out beyond the lip-like brink of the place.

    The Guns of Avalon Zelazny, Roger 1972

  • Kirschleger, [452] and in the accompanying diagram (fig. 195), from Cramer, [453] of a monstrous flower of _Orchis mascula_, there is one perfect stamen of the outer row and two lip-like stamens of the same series, while the inner verticil comprises one perfect and two abortive stamens.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • (In Greek the word means _lip flower_, alluding to the lip-like indusia.) (1) ALABAMA LIP FERN.

    The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton

  • Within these petals, at the upper part of the flower, there was the ordinary column, and at the opposite side, alternating with the petals before mentioned, two additional lip-like petals, one provided with a half-anther containing a single perfectly formed pollen-mass (A 2, A 3).

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • Their lip-like openings, and the ready manner in which they may be searched by the probe, show them to be sinuses.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • Morren also describes another flower of the same plant in which there were three sepals, two lateral petals partially lip-like in aspect, a third labellum normal, two additional labella representing the two anterior stamens of the outer whorl, while more or less developed rudiments of the remaining four stamens also exist.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • The inner labia are definitely more lip-like in color, texture, and shape than the outer set, and like every other body part, no two are alike.

    open source sex 2009

  • The inner labia are definitely more lip-like in color, texture, and shape than the outer set, and like every other body part, no two are alike.

    open source sex 2009

  • The inner labia are definitely more lip-like in color, texture, and shape than the outer set, and like every other body part, no two are alike.

    open source sex 2009

  • The inner labia are definitely more lip-like in color, texture, and shape than the outer set, and like every other body part, no two are alike.

    open source sex 2009

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