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

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

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

Where'er I turn, some youthful form, Like floweret broken by the storm, Appeals to me in sad array, And bids me yet a moment stay.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

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