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

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

So may the stream of Life’s long dream Flow gently onward to its end, With many a floweret gay, Adown its billowy way: May no sigh vex nor care perplex My loving little Friend!

From Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home The Story of His Life by Moses, Belle

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.

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