The 277-foot tower, shaped like a giant blossom at the end of a tapering stalk, dropped its last screaming rider in 1965 and fell silent.

Paeonia, with giant blossoms, is a new pattern by Tricia Guild.

Their light warmed the enclosing petal walls of the giant blossom.

Some, like a giant tropical blossom of a piece called "Haute Cinq" (1990), verge on a voluptuous surrealism.

Vala had bought food: a large smoked bird and nectar from the giant blossoms.

An enclosing hedge of exotic purple-leaved shrubs was in red flower - giant blossoms with delicate stamens of deep yellow.

After she'd finished, lured by the exquisite beauty of the giant blossoms, she took a few minutes in seclusion to enjoy the sense of well-being attendant on the forest.

The giant blossom had shown up in her dreams, part terrifying, part exhilarating.

She could see the outlines of the giant blossoms against the sky.

He faced it; walked slowly toward it, oblivious to the gunfire around him, to the explosions as one of the munitions dumps went up in the near distance, a giant blossom of orange flame.