be in flower

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You'll see, Charles, the Louis d'ors will be in flower in a week's time; but it's all vinegar, it's covered with beetles."--"Oh,

From An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. III (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) by Reuter, Fritz

It will be in flower next week, and your parents have just arranged that I may meet them at the Alte Schloss in time for dinner.

From Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.

That active city-dweller, the Greenie, is found in almost every large eucalypt that happens to be in flower.

From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by Leach, John Albert

And when you come back, darling, you'll find your son, perhaps, and the hepaticas may be in flower, waiting for you.'

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth

Most of the plants found will not be in flower, and these send up but a single, oblong, pointed leaf.

From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Campbell, Douglas Houghton