flowerage
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When the weeds are once withered or uprooted, then will the nobler flowerage spontaneously and vigorously spring up.–The virtuous heart, like the body, grows sound and strong more by work than by good food.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
But we must not grudge him a slumber or a sleep among the saughs, lulled by the murmur of millions of humble-bees—we speak within bounds—on their honied flowerage.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
And something embryonic in John Bulmer seemed to come, with the knave's benediction, into flowerage.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch
The stems are particularly full and smooth, and the heads of the best of them rustle back with a profusion of flaxen flowerage, remarkably agreeable to the touch.
From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Gosse, Edmund
What an exhaustless wealth does there lie in even the humblest fruitage and flowerage of language, and what a fecundity have even dry 'roots'!
From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
