floweret

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My Spring is gone, however, but it has left me that French floweret on my hands, which, in some moods, I would fain be rid of.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

So hath a floweret from your pathway faded; A bright star shining o’er you set in gloom; Bright rays of hope are from your vision shaded By the dark curtain of the silent tomb.

From Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith by Smith, Rebekah

Though bush or floweret never grow My dark unwarming shade below; Nor summer bud perfume the dew, Of rosy blush, or yellow hue!

From Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by Richardson, John Purver

The French call this floweret "Marguerite," and they know that Marguerite can prophecy, when lovers pluck off its leaves, and ask of every leaf they pluck some question concerning their lovers.

From What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William)

Then would I pluck a floweret from my tress And beat thee till I forced thee to confess, While in my play the falling leaves would cover The eyes—the bright eyes—of my captive lover.

From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa