deflower

Example Sentences

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These miserably disinclined, The lamentably unembraced, Insult the Pleasures Earth designed To people and beflower the waste.

From Poems — Volume 3 by Meredith, George

She heard the picturesque street cries of the flower-sellers in the Avenue de l'Opéra—"Beflower yourselves, gentlemen and ladies, beflower yourselves!"

From The Chink in the Armour by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

And we 142 forget the friend who has really meant much to us—or, perhaps, we beflower the grave once a year.

From Carolyn of the Corners by Endicott, Ruth Belmore