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"Pistil" Quotes from Famous Books

... by the jumping blizzards! Give me holt of that air hoss-pistil! I'll show him whuther a Yankee'll run ...

— Frank Merriwell's Chums • Burt L. Standish

... the Southerner, 'will you 'ave the goodness to lean back in your chair?' 'With the greatest pleasure,' said I, not knowin' what was a comin'. When what does my gentleman do but whips out an 'oss pistil as long as my harm, and shoots my left 'and neighbor dead! But that wasn't hall! for the bullet, comin' out of the left temple, wounded a lady in the side. She huttered an 'orrifick scream. 'Pon my word, ma'am,' said the Southerner, 'you needn't make so much noise ...

— The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; • Various

... sunlight, lingered warm and still on the balcony. It caught the facade of the cathedral sideways, like the tips of a flower, and sideways lit up the stem of Giotto's tower, like a lily stem, or a long, lovely pale pink and white and green pistil of the lily of the cathedral. Florence, the flowery town. Firenze—Fiorenze—the flowery town: the red lilies. The Fiorentini, the flower-souled. Flowers with good roots in the mud and muck, as should be: and fearless blossoms ...

— Aaron's Rod • D. H. Lawrence

Words linked to "Pistil" : simple pistil, style, reproductive structure, carpel, bloom, blossom, pistillode, compound pistil, flower