“The skin of the upper lip is very thin and lacks subcutaneous fat.”

“She was quiet while he talked, watching him over the lip of her raised cup of tea.”

“Usually, the first bit poured over the lip of the flask is discarded as it serves to wash off the lip.”

“I always line my lips with a dark brownish lipliner and fill in the center with a pale pink lipstick.”

“Lipstick is painted thickly and then outlined with a lipliner for polished perfection.”

“Almost as bad as the time I cornered a possible future Prime Minister for an interview and delved into my bag for a pen and the only thing I could pull out was a lipliner.”

“I swear it, she was lipless, it was the lipstick that painted imaginary ones on, maybe that's why she was so pale, to hide her liplessness.”

“I saw a man at the close of day. Standing in the grocery door. His eyes were sunk, his lips were parched.”

“She was listening to him absent-mindedly and looking about her, her fan laid to her lips.”

“I burned to revile Canaples aloud, but Abdon's was not the ear into which I might pour the hot words that welled up to my lips.”