floweret

Example Sentences

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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

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

In her hair was a spray of diamonds, mounted to look like a single stalk of lilies of the valley, each jewel hanging from the slender stem like a tiny floweret.

From The Automobile Girls at Newport Watching the Summer Parade by Crane, Laura Dent

If the lithe spirit of the girl bends under the grave teachings of the Doctor, it bends with a charming grace, and rises again smilingly, when sober speech is done, like the floweret she is.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various

A normal calyx with each floweret; leaves compound with 3 leaflets LEGUMINOSAE, p.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan