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

A stag sprang from the pasture at his call, And, kneeling, licked the withered hand, that tied A wreath of woodbine round his antlers tall, And hung his lofty neck with many a floweret small.

From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by Beattie, James

Or are they too withered, Like unto this unknown floweret?

From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Panin, Ivan

Life let us cherish While yet the taper glows, And the fresh floweret Pluck ere it close.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh

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