flowerage

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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

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

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

Yet, thanks to Nature, who sends her leafage and flowerage up through all kinds of débris, and who takes a blossomy possession of ruined walls and desert places, it is never altogether dead!

From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Smith, Alexander

Still deeper and dimmer And goodlier they glow For the eyes of the swimmer Who scans them below As he crosses the zone of their flowerage that knows not of sunshine and snow.

From Studies in Song by Swinburne, Algernon Charles