flowerage

Example Sentences

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And something embryonic in John Bulmer seemed to come, with the knave's benediction, into flowerage.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch

Yet, thanks to Nature, who sends her leafage and flowerage up through all kinds of débris, and who takes a blossomy possession of ruined walls and desert places, it is never altogether dead!

From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Smith, Alexander

When the weeds are once withered or uprooted, then will the nobler flowerage spontaneously and vigorously spring up.–The virtuous heart, like the body, grows sound and strong more by work than by good food.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul

"Roe, fox and hare hold revel all, Thro' flowerage the wee worm glances; There great and small a-dancing fall And the sun up in Heaven dances."

From The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories by Ewald, Carl

Still deeper and dimmer And goodlier they glow For the eyes of the swimmer Who scans them below As he crosses the zone of their flowerage that knows not of sunshine and snow.

From Studies in Song by Swinburne, Algernon Charles