Flowerpot

Definitions

1. A locality in Kingborough council area, south eastern Tasmania, Australia.
2. A pot filled with soil in which plants are grown.

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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.”

“As a multifaceted kitchen enabler, nothing can quite supplant the gorgeous, timeless, ever-available, often dirt-cheap terra-cotta flowerpot.”

“The reason⟳ we have⟳ for so long been unaware that the universe evolves probabilistically is that for the relatively large, everyday objects we typically encounter -- baseballs, flowerpots, the Moon -- quantum mechanics shows that the probabilities become⟳ highly skewed, hugely favoring one outcome and effectively suppressing all others.”

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