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Definition of Flowerets
1. floweret [n] - See also: floweret
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flowerets
Literary usage of Flowerets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monthly Review (1814)
"They are intitled flowerets of Solitude, and exhale many sweetly-scented sighs.
To Spring, to Sleep, to the Bottle, or to the Rose; to his Mistress, ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1814)
"They are intitled flowerets of Solitude, and exhale many sweetly-scented sighs.
To Spring, to Sleep, to the Bottle, or to the Rose; to his Mistress, ..."
3. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1827)
"... of the flowerets dews, And ask thee, if the cause of Providence, (Which ever
is thy own) may not he served But with a ..."
4. Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye by Charles Sprague Smith (1902)
"... tiny flowerets seem to awake joyous; each one has its drop of trembling dew ;
the leaves, sensitive to the cold, move to and fro in the morning ..."
5. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"And then, the last song When the dead man is praised on his journey— " Bear, bear
him along With his few faults shut up like dead flowerets! ..."
6. Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry edited by Epes Sargent (1882)
"Strew with pale flowerets, when pensive moons shine, His grassy covering, Where
spirits, hovering, Chant for his requiem music divine. ..."
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