Use flower in a sentence
Sentences starting with flower
- Flower have shewn to exist uniformly in the higher and lower apes. [1]
- Flower of the Austrian army, hero of the Turkish wars Hostilities are ended, we can shake one another's hand.... [2]
- Flower (4. [1]
Sentences ending with flower
- Oh, the pretty, withering human flower! [10]
- Here at my window grows a wild aloe, and it is in flower. [11]
- Her dress was white embroidered muslin, with a lace mantle, and white bonnet trimmed with green leaves, which perhaps might suggest the resemblance to the pale wintry flower. [14]
- The "flush times" were in magnificent flower! [5]
- Don't send it to Mrs. Brooks until you have looked it over, flower by flower. [5]
- It was as though she flourished on giving: as though a hundred nerves of being and feeling had opened up within her and had expanded her life like some fine flower. [11]
- Life is a thorny rose-bush, and Art its flower. [10]
- It really seemed that Sonya did not feel her position trying, and had grown quite reconciled to her lot as a sterile flower. [2]
- All the traits that made the great Napoleon worshiped, hated, and feared existed in the little Bonaparte, as perfectly as the pea-pod in the flower. [4]
- It must have seemed so to Greece when the Acropolis was to the outlying world what the imperial calla is to the marsh in which it lifts its superb flower. [4]
Short sentences using flower
- Take this pomegranate flower. [10]
- See that flower before you. [4]
- My flower . [10]
- Flower, in 'Proc. [1]
Sentences containing flower two or more times
- He would squeeze the life out of a flower, and give the flower to his dog to eat. [11]
- Slender dragon-flies and smaller busy insects flitted buzzing from flower to flower, sucking honey from the brimming calyxes and bearing to others the seeds needed to form fruit. [10]
- A rose will not flower in the dark, and a fern will not flower anywhere. [6]
- His office is like that which naturalists attribute to the bumble-bee,--he lays up little honey for himself, but he conveys the fertilizing pollen from flower to flower. [3]
- I seek thee in thy garden, and I dare To love thee; and though my deserts be small, Thou art the only flower I would wear, O flower of all! [11]
- He had to grow into the habit of passing from one dreamy pleasure to another, like a bee going from flower to flower in the valley, and he found this wandering habit likely to extend to his labors. [13]
- Whilst flying from flower to flower he makes "a shrill, almost whistling noise" (56. [1]
- O flower of all the years, O flower of all, I seek thee in thy garden, and I dare To love thee; and though my deserts be small, Thou art the only flower I would wear, O flower of all! [11]
- O flower of all the years, O flower of all, A day beside thee is a day of days; Thy voice is softer than the throstle's call, There is not song enough to sing thy praise, O flower of all! [11]
More example sentences with the word flower in them
- The idea of your house going to the wanton expense of a flower garden! [5]
- The gorgeous flower you desire I can no longer give you--or any one. [10]
- Just so subtly, yet with the same seeming suddenness had budded and come to leaf and flower a perfect understanding, which nevertheless remained undefined. [9]
- It has never yet granted me any great, complete success, and if I was occasionally permitted to pluck a flower, my hands were pricked by thorns and nettles! [10]
- I know the wretch who has trodden down the flower of flowers in your heart, and I, madman that I am, can sing his praises, can take his part; and cost what it may, I will still do so as long as you. [10]
- Very often she would wander off by day, always without a companion, bringing home with her a nest, a flower, or even a more questionable trophy of her ramble, such as showed that there was no place where she was afraid to venture. [6]
- The whole vegetable world, even "the meanest flower that blows," is lovely to contemplate. [6]
- Well, that is woman, the consummate flower of civilization. [4]
- And so I will take her--this flower of the prairie--and begin life again. [11]
- Other astronomers will watch, and some no doubt will pray, and I shall read in the annals the bright story of the flower that was turned into a star! [11]
- What she felt was hideous; malignant spite possessed her; but it gave her rapture--delicious rapture--a flower of hell, but with splendid petals and intoxicating perfume. [10]
- Yet when she was dressed--in pure white, with only a string of pearls, the smallest she had, round her neck--she was like that white flower which had been placed on her pillow last night. [11]
- Ruth Devlin's heart was all out, all blossomed--beside Mrs. Falchion's like some wild flower to the aloe. [11]
- He rose and walked to the window and looked out for a few moments over the flower garden before he replied:--"On what conditions? [9]
- The sun came up like a great flower expanding. [11]
- There were great trees with swings, groves, orchards where the late apples glistened between the leaves, an old-fashioned flower garden loath to relinquish its blooming. [9]
- What is the transport with the huge lotus flower on the prow probably bringing? [10]
- Finding myself better towards evening, I went up to the hanging-gardens to see if everything was in order there, and also to look at the rare flower which was to blossom in the night. [10]
- So the tablet told them nothing; and as, moreover, they distinguished less carefully between mine and thine, one trampled the turf and another snatched from the boughs a flower or fruit. [10]
- Its name seems to indicate that it is a noble flower and that it is white. [5]
- When he came to himself after being wounded and the flower of eternal, unfettered love had instantly unfolded itself in his soul as if freed from the bondage of life that had restrained it, he no longer feared death and ceased to think about it. [2]
- A chill ran through the courtier's strong, corpulent body, and he gazed with mingled sympathy and dread at the blooming human flower associated thus early in plans fraught with danger. [10]
- The garden where thou dwellest is so fair, Thou art so goodly and so queenly tall, Thy sweetness scatters sweetness everywhere, O flower of all! [11]
- He was of those who hypnotize themselves, who glow with self-creation, who flower and bloom without pollen. [11]
- More speech like this followed, and amid it all, with the flower of the world beside me at this table, I remembered my mother's words before I bade her good-bye and set sail from Glasgow for Virginia. [11]
- How beautiful is this flower of wood and iron, which we were ready to pass by without wasting a look upon it! [6]
- Nor do I think that we need to take shelter behind the wellworn and convenient observation, the truth of which stands in much doubt, that literature is the final flower of a nation's civilization. [4]
- A million of these, with all the firearms in the world, could not prevail against the flower of the South. [9]
- On each of these little graves was a flower, a sickly geranium, or a humble marigold, or some other floral token of affection. [4]
- The pity of these for him--for Rudyard Byng, because the flower in his garden, his Jasmine-flower, was swept by the blast of calumny! [11]
- A day beside thee is a day of days; Thy voice is softer than the throstle's call, There is not song enough to sing thy praise, O flower of all! [11]
- Sir Heinz Schorlin, the wild butterfly, desired to sip the honey from this sweet, untouched flower, and then probably abandon her like so many before her. [10]
- As they crossed the viridarium he asked his young host what was the name of some rare flower, and counselled him to take care that shade-giving trees were planted in abundance on his various estates. [10]
- Finding it in the Virgil was nothing, after all; it was a little delicate flower, which looked as if it were made to press, and it was probably shut in by accident at the particular place where he found it. [6]
- From the time the sick man had been brought into the house, the beggar had worked with him, giving him tinctures which he boiled with sweetmeat called the Flower of Bambaba, while Cumner's Son rubbed an ointment into his body. [11]
- Yonder portrait shows the perfect flower, but the bud possessed, if possible, even more exquisite charm. [10]
- A flower, on the other hand, may dwindle down to a mere weed by the same change. [6]
- With verdant green the mountains glow, For thee, for thee, the lilies grow; Far stretched beneath the tented hills, A fairer flower the valley fills. [5]
- If I am the latest graduate, I really and sincerely hope I am not the final flower of its seven centuries; I hope it may go on for seven ages longer. [5]
- Take her away, the flower that smelled so sweet and luscious, the thing that he had held so often to his lips and to his breast? [11]
- She drooped like the flower she was, and one spring day my grandfather led me to receive her blessing and to be folded for the last time in those dear arms. [9]
- The scent of the flower is very sweet, but you want distance on it, because it is so powerful. [5]
- In the "Rhodora" the flower is made to answer that "Beauty is its own excuse for being. [6]
- The perfume of the flower is like an everlasting bud from the last tree of Time. [11]
- And after that the days flew so quickly that it seemed as if the woods had burst suddenly into white flower, and it was spring again. [9]
- A poet admires the bee sucking from the chalice of a flower and says it exists to suck the fragrance of flowers. [2]
- When she reached the "little house under the hill" (as Catherine called the chamber beneath the eaves), she beheld reflected in the mirror an image like a tall, white flower that might indeed have belonged to a princess. [9]
- She's a flower, that grey mare! [11]
- Perhaps she knew that a bud will never come to flower if you pull it in pieces. [4]
- At last he tasted the meat, and thought of many former noon-day meals, and how he had often found a flower in the satchel, that Uarda had placed there to please him, with the bread. [10]
- I remember the sweet honeysuckle that I saw in flower against the wall of his house a few months ago, as long as I remember the sky and stars. [6]
- The drooping flower suddenly raised her head, as if moved by a spring, exclaiming: "Thank you heartily, thank you! [10]
- She had another such flower on her breast. [6]
- Then they stood still near the flower shrubs which were placed round about the hall to garnish it, and it might have been weened from their demeanor that they had quarrelled and had come to high words. [10]
- She is a sterile flower, you know--like some strawberry blossoms. [2]
- The seed was sown then, the flower springs up to-day, that is all. [11]
- Barbara saw her son for only a few more fleeting hours; the "Spanish fury" which destroyed the flower of Antwerp doubled his business cares, forbade any delay, and imperiously claimed his whole time and strength. [10]
- She was like some rare flower of the field, alert, gentle, strong, intrepid, with buoyant face, brown hair, blue eyes and cream-like skin. [11]
- There was something so lofty in her mien that this frank expression of contentment was almost startling; like a breath of perfume from some gorgeous flower which seems created to rejoice the eye only. [10]
- Nay, I shall smile: The wine is drunk, the flower it is gone, One weeps not when the days no more beguile, How shall the tear-drops gather in a stone? [11]
- It had a slender stem several feet high, and from its top stood up a single tongue of flame, an intensely red flower of the size and shape of a small corn-cob. [5]
- Then she was silent, and her beautiful head dropped on her breast like a flower broken by a tempest. [10]
- On the other side of the brick walk, and near the iron fence, was an elm and a flower bed that was Uncle Tom's pride and the admiration of the neighbourhood. [9]
- The words came shrilling through the trees: "Oh, love, it is a lily flower, (Sing, my captain, sing, my lady! [11]
- The sun was shining warmly, and after young Harvey had taken our horses we strayed through the house, where the servants were busy decorating, and out into my grandfather's old English flower garden, and took the seat by the sundial. [9]
- As she talked, she seemed to be probing the centre of a flower which she had caught from a basket at the window, and her whole personality was alight and vivifying, her good temper and spirit complete. [11]
- The first thing she did was to fling the flower into her fireplace and rake the ashes over it. [6]
- I have never seen any one seek flowers in the field and forest so eagerly, and she made them into beautiful bouquets, which Louis Gallait called "bewitching flower madrigals. [10]
- She took a seat by the window, and an involuntary exclamation of pleasure escaped her as her eyes fell upon the little, old-fashioned flower garden beneath it. [9]
- It was the same morning that the young master found the flower between the leaves of his Virgil. [6]
- All about us rose gigantic masses, crags, and ramparts of bare and dreary rock, with not a vestige or semblance of plant or tree or flower anywhere, or glimpse of any creature that had life. [5]
- And she was right glad to hear them; and whereas true love is a flower which, when it droops, needs but a little drop of dew to uplift it again, hers had already raised its head somewhat after my last letter. [10]
- In the high regions we found rich store of the splendid red flower called the Alpine rose, but we did not find any examples of the ugly Swiss favorite called Edelweiss. [5]
- Gratitude is a rare thing--as rare as the flower of the century--aloe; but you have it, madame. [11]
- It was a rare alpine flower, which was found only in one spot among the rocks of The Mountain. [6]
- A seed of rancour had been sown in his mind which had grown to a great size and must presently burst into a dark flower of vengeance. [11]
- This flower was probably called the torch-plant--should have been so named, anyway. [5]
- Neither hunger, thirst, poverty, grief, hatred, contempt, nor persecution could drive the Mormons from their faith or their allegiance; and even the thirst for gold, which gleaned the flower of the youth and strength of many nations was not able to entice them! [5]
- It too was potter's trash, which a stone might shatter, a flower in full bloom, whose leaves drop apart if touched by the finger! [10]
- He could still play as merrily with little Mary, still take as much pleasure in a rare flower or a fine horse, as before his departure. [10]
- She stopped to pick a second flower that had grown by the first. [9]
- It was order personified, gaining effect at every turn by a multitude of details too trivial to mention were it not for the fact that they entered deeply into my consciousness, until they came to represent, collectively, the very flower of achievement. [9]
- Just at the period of adolescence, the mind often suddenly begins to come into flower and to set its fruit. [6]
- It might have passed itself off for a dead apple tree but for the fact that it had a a star-like, red-hot flower sprinkled sparsely over its person. [5]
- There were two parties there also, but besides loyalty another sentiment flourished which would now be called chauvinism, yet which possessed a noble influence, since it fostered in our hearts that most beautiful flower of the young mind, enthusiasm for a great cause. [10]
- The season was over, the summer visitors had left Arrowhead Village; the chrysanthemums were going out of flower, the frosts had come, and Maurice was still beneath the roof of the kind physician. [6]
- There is an orchard beyond the sea, Its flowers the brown bee sips; But the stateliest flower is all for me-- Oh, sweet are my true love's lips! [11]
- All the physically or morally weak had long since been left behind and only the flower of the army--physically and mentally--remained. [2]
- Were there but one little place where that Eden flower might bloom within your heart, you could not seek to ruin that love which lives in mine and fills it, conquering all the lesser part of me. [11]
- Clear drops sparkled on leaf and flower and blade, for, only a short time before, the garden by Bent-Anat's house had been freshly watered. [10]
- If the flavor of the peach and the fragrance of the rose are not found in some fruit and flower which grow by the side of the river of life, an earth-born spirit might be forgiven for missing them. [6]
- The eastern wall of the house was a mass of Virginia creeper, and beneath that another flower bed, and still another in the back-yard behind the lattice fence covered with cucumber vine. [9]
- Trees grew out of the flower beds now, and underbrush choked the paths. [9]
- Let him think of the details:--a justice of the peace: to sit on a board of directors; to be, perhaps, Master of the Hounds; to unite with the Bishop in restoring the cathedral; to make an address at the annual flower show. [11]
- That the flower of his life was crushed, and that he carried a death-wound in his heart was all that he felt or thought. [10]
- Then he thought of his flower. [5]
- Look: What just now was the purple of this flower is now deep ruby red; what before was a violet gleam now is the richest amethyst. [10]
- The rose-bud Hortense now pleased the marquis far better than the Holland flower of five and twenty. [10]
- She came slowly, now and again stooping to pick a flower and place it in her belt. [11]
- Moreover, there was no plant, no flower, no cry of any animal in the woods which was not familiar to the Abbess Kunigunde. [10]
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