“O Laurinella! little doſt thou wot / How fraile a flower thou doſt ſo highly prize: / Beauty's the flower, but love ⟳ the flower-pot / That muſt preſerve it, els it quickly dyes.”

“The flowers glowed red and golden: snapdragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows.”

“You know ⟳, Darwin studied their fertilisation, and showed that the whole structure ⟳ of an ordinary orchid flower was contrived in order ⟳ that moths might carry ⟳ the pollen from plant ⟳ to plant ⟳.”

“We transplanted the flowers to a larger pot.”

“He always keeps a vase full of flowers in his office.”

“The dogwoods are in flower this week.”

“[F]or ſtill, that my virgin-flower was yet uncrop'd never once enter'd into his head, and he would have ⟳ thought it idling with time and words to have ⟳ queſtion'd me upon it.”

Fanny Hill

“So was it asserted, that whenever a maiden was destined to die ⟳ unmarried, as surely would the plant ⟳ wither away and perish, and if a dughter of the Renseccos lost her honour or had given away her flower to an unworthy lover, then would the flower be blighted overnight.”

“In some local tradditions a fallen bride was married wearing a crown of straw rather than a garland of flowers, to symbolize her loss of virginity – the wilting of her flower.”

“"Our flesh as one!" he laughed, speaking loudly. "Sweating bodies entwined in carnal passion! As I plunge myself deep into her lady flower, again and again and again— !"”

“At Floddon hyllys, / Our bowys, our byllys / Slew all the floure / Of theyr honoure.”

“The choice and flower of all things profitable the Psalms do more briefly contain ⟳.”

“the flower of the chivalry of all Spain”

“In times of peace, so clean ⟳ and bright, / And with a new-washed morning face ⟳, / He walked Pall Mall, a goodly sight, / The finished flower of all the race ⟳.”

“She was in the flower of her life.”

“A simple maiden in her flower / Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms.”

“NO lady fair in hall or bower, / In days when knighthood was in flower, / Or high-born dame with jewels set ⟳, / Or Tudor or Plantagenet, / E’er wore enwreath’d on form ⟳ and face ⟳ / Thy royal robe of richest grace.”

“The Flovvers of Grains mix'd vvith VVater vvill make ⟳ a ſort of Glue.”

“the flowers of sulphur”

“Exposed to a moderate fire in subliming pots, [brimstone] rises all into dry, and almost tasteless, flowers; whereas being exposed to a naked fire, it affords store of a saline and fretting liquor.”

“I pointed out to the late Mr. Catherwood, of the firm of Caslon and Catherwood, the inconvenience of both these modes of cutting flowers,”

“And if any man lye with her at all, and her flowers be vpon him, hee shall be vncleane seuen dayes: and all the bed whereon he lyeth, shall be vncleane.”

“[…] she whispered leaning over and kissing her forehead; and then added, 'Mummy loves you, precious flower.'”

““Take ⟳ care of yourself out there, Brown, you delicate flower.””

““Come ⟳ on, you delicate flower, we just need ⟳ to nap. It will be fine.””

“to give ⟳ someone his flowers; to get ⟳ one's flowers”

“It has been my desire to find ⟳ a way to express ⟳ my gratitude to these women for quite some time but I really did not know ⟳ how to give ⟳ them their flowers as a method to tell ⟳ them thanks.”

“I was able to give ⟳ Coach Bryant his flowers while he was alive, and I have ⟳ always been thankful I was able to do that.”

“Gonzalo managed to fake a smile ⟳. When will anyone ever give ⟳ him his flowers? His hard work ⟳ kept him and his kingdom this far. Wasn't anyone going to acknowledge the fact?”

“Sabrina Carpenter is, finally, getting her flowers. Ever since demurely (I don't use ⟳ that word lightly!!!) performing what would become ⟳ the song of 2024 as part of her Coachella set ⟳—no, literally, "Espresso" just won the MTV Video Music Award for Song of the Year—all eyes have ⟳ been on 'Brina.”

“Leaving the weavers’ village behind you, and crossing the sandy bed of the Vengavati or ‘Swift-flower,’ which, however, contained not a drop of water, you reach ⟳ the ancient Jain temple.”

“Rhŏdănus, i, m. The Rhodanus (now Rhone); a river of Gaul [prob. a northern word, meaning “Swift-flower or Swift-passer”].”

“sará-yu, f. [swift flower: √sri] N. of a river (in Oudh), in C. gnly. û.”

“one that flows with force ⟳ and speed ⟳; the fast flower”

“Bonnie partner with Scottish flower (5) [as a clue for CLYDE]”

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