be in flower
Example Sentences
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It was the time for bulbs to be in flower, and the spring perennials.
From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by Basil King
Miss Hope says she believes they'll just be in flower.
From The Fortunes of Philippa A School Story by Angela Brazil
I went round and said good-bye to the lilacs, and told them to be in flower by the time I came back.
From Stories by English Authors: London (Selected by Scribners) by Beatrice Harraden
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 Douglas Houghton Campbell
"Dear me," said the Rath, "what may that be in flower there?"
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
