Young, pale stalks, which are available now in the Greenmarket, are essential; avoid the big woody things you find in supermarkets.

One of the brothers said that he saw a pale stalk with a rose on it.

The women are bare topped and look like bright flowers upside down, their golden torsos the pale brown stalks.

Weryl sat in a pile of hay, and tried to chew on one of the pale yellow-brown stalks.

Everybody in my family was a closet gardener in a city apartment, producing pale lunar indoor stalks on the shadowy shelf above the winter coats.

The long reeds rustled, their pale stalks illuminated by the fitful light of fireflies.

They elongate on the pale slender stalks of their longing, like sunflowers with heavy heads.

Eaten raw, as crudites in the Italian manner, the white bulb with the pale green stalk has the sweet, sunny flavor of anise.

The long tails drooped around Leroi's pale stalk as he rose up on his knees above her.

A man with fair hair, a pale stalk protruding from his pants.