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

Then would I pluck a floweret from my tress And beat thee till I forced thee to confess, While in my play the falling leaves would cover The eyes—the bright eyes—of my captive lover.

From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa

If the lithe spirit of the girl bends under the grave teachings of the Doctor, it bends with a charming grace, and rises again smilingly, when sober speech is done, like the floweret she is.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various

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)

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.