flowerage

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Fortunately this nut-tree, which threw an unwholesome, frosty nut-shadow on the whole flowerage of love and poetry, soon transplanted itself back again among more congenial guests.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich

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

But we must not grudge him a slumber or a sleep among the saughs, lulled by the murmur of millions of humble-bees—we speak within bounds—on their honied flowerage.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

What an exhaustless wealth does there lie in even the humblest fruitage and flowerage of language, and what a fecundity have even dry 'roots'!

From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Urns on corner walls, pilasters, circular windows, flowerage and loggia.

From A Mere Accident by Moore, George (George Augustus)