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All around, the ground is olive-coloured with unblossomed heath, bright and golden here and there with the flowerets of the prickly gorse.

From Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men by Edwards, Eliezer

Night after night with a blemish of day Unblown and unblossomed has withered away; Come another night, come a new night, say     Will you pluck me apart?

From Amores Poems by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Now over the lip of the window sill, A rustle of silks, the lattice closes, No one has heard, the night is still, Save unblossomed buds of the startled roses.

From The Book of Gud by Hersey, Harold

This cannot be, Since reason and all mental gifts are thine; Within the lovely calyx sleeps the germ,— A flower as yet unblossomed.

From The Arctic Queen by Unknown

Flowered, he will assist at love-making, wreathed in my lady's nut-brown hair; young and callow and unblossomed, he goes into the boiling pot and delivers the word of his sovereign mistress.

From The Four Million by Henry, O.