No one who saw her swinging down the street, with her easy graceful carriage, a picture of radiant health and youth, with her vivacious small head-too small for her tall figure-set on a long stemlike throat rising from broad shoulders, her white and rather prominent teeth beneath her smiling short upper lip, and with those eyes, afterwards known as "Lilly eyes"-no one noticed the poverty of her dress, or suspected that those erect, delicately formed shoulders stooped for hours over a sewing-machine.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
The flowers are disks and squares of different bright-colored tissue-paper, each one with its centre pinched together and twisted into a stemlike piece, which is pushed down into a buttonhole-twist spool.
"Little Folks' Handy Book"
Lina Beard Adelia B. Beard
As he dropped his head on one side, it looked too heavy for the stemlike neck, but it conveyed an impression of immense intellectual power.
"The Second Deluge"
Garrett P. Serviss