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

Thro' Syrian plains curtained with curling mist The grass she trailed, Where the shy floweret; by the dew-drop kissed, Sweet blushing quailed; And drowned in purple vales of amethyst The moon-mad bulbuls wailed.

From Blooms of the Berry by Cawein, Madison J.

The freshest drops will Beauty choose To keep her floweret wet, The purest dews, to save its hues— Her gentle violet.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

The French call this floweret "Marguerite," and they know that Marguerite can prophecy, when lovers pluck off its leaves, and ask of every leaf they pluck some question concerning their lovers.

From What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William)

Life let us cherish While yet the taper glows, And the fresh floweret Pluck ere it close.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh