more pendulous

There are five, or sometimes fewer, carpels, which unite to form an ovary with as many chambers, in each of which are one or two, rarely more, pendulous anatropous ovules, attached to the central column in such a way that the micropyle points outwards and the raphe is turned towards the placenta.

The scene is so bizarre, and its details — like the brown-paper attachments to her breasts, rendering them more pendulous — so peculiar, that you look forward to what follows because you hope for, if not explanation, poetic or intellectual coherence.

This species from Europe is much like the American one, but has longer, more slender, more pendulous fruit-clusters.

Speaking generally, the most common state of things in these flowers was the occurrence on the throat of the calyx, in the position ordinarily occupied by the stamens, and sometimes mingled with those organs, of twisted, ribbon-like filaments, which bore about the centre one or more pendulous, anatropous ovules on their margins.

Madame Dépine's cheeks grew more pendulous.