Meaning of flower-pot | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“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.”

“I hope⟳ you will think⟳ kindly of my whitened bones, and never have⟳ anything more to do with Greek writing on flower-pots, sir, if I may make⟳ so bold as to say⟳ so.”

“Three chairs of the steamer type⟳, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like⟳ withered elfin limbs.”

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