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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having red or rosy lips.

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  • These include but are not limited to Claire, growing like a weed, gap-toothed, volatile, brilliant and charming; Julia, rose-lipped, wide-eyed, white-haired and implacable.

    Yatima » 2008 » December 2008

  • These include but are not limited to Claire, growing like a weed, gap-toothed, volatile, brilliant and charming; Julia, rose-lipped, wide-eyed, white-haired and implacable.

    mindfulness 2008

  • In which it is proven that "Life was a rose-lipped comrade with purple flowers dripping from her fingers."

    'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands Eliot H. Robinson

  • There were little rice and cowrie shells; mottled tiger shells; spider shells, with their long, sharp spikes; immense conches, rough, and covered with great knobs on the outside, but smooth and rose-lipped within, and of many delicate hues.

    The Island Home Richard Archer

  • Blessed is drudgery, the homely mother of Patience, "that young and rose-lipped cherubim," of quiet endurance, of persistency in well-doing, of all the stablest elements of character.

    The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis Ellice Hopkins

  • On that road we heard the song of morning stars; we drank in fragrances aerial and sweet as a May mist; we were rich in gossamer fancies and iris hopes; our hearts sought and found the boon of dreams; the years waited beyond and they were very fair; life was a rose-lipped comrade with purple flowers dripping from her fingers.

    The Golden Road 1908

  • O, Laughter, rose-lipped daughter of joy, there are dimples enough in thy cheek to catch and hold and glorify all the tears of grief!

    Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest Robert Green Ingersoll 1866

  • Weave the rhyme of rose-lipped Daphne, nymph of wooded stream and shade,

    The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens Henry Kendall 1860

  • Why, she was lying out in the warm summer air, on a green bank, all tufted with cowslips and violets and clover-blossoms, with a plenty of strawberries underneath her feet, and the bluest water you ever saw all round her, murmuring like the rose-lipped sea-shells; and the air was full of singing-birds, and there was a little old woman looking at her, with the funniest cap, and a withered face not bigger than you may see when you look at the baby through the big end of a spyglass: the cap was

    Stories of Childhood Various 1885

  • "Sister," said Harold, "thou speakest as I love to hear thee speak -- as my bright-eyed, rose-lipped sister spoke in the days of old; thou speakest as a woman with warm heart, and not as the mummy in the stiff cerements of priestly form; and if thou art with me, and thou wilt give me countenance, I will marry thy godchild, and save her alike from the dire superstitions of Hilda, and the grave of the abhorrent convent."

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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