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Definition of Floweriest
1. flowery [adj] - See also: flowery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Floweriest
Literary usage of Floweriest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in Alaska by John Muir (1915)
"... was more worthily attracted to the neat cottage homes found here, embowered
in the freshest and floweriest climbing roses and honeysuckles conceivable. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... ho would not have run, as Mr. Elihu Burritt tells us that he did in early
life, " with a rush and a rhapsody into the floweriest meads of rhetoric. ..."
3. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... been accurately taken, one doubts if Porto-Bello sold, without shot fired, to
the highest bidder, at its floweriest, would have covered such a sum. ..."
4. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1875)
"... and that there had been a time when the foot-lights for him cast a halo of
romance equal to the floweriest wreath of mediaeval story. ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"The floweriest talker becomes dumb the moment be leaves his chair—the story
expires in an unintelligible succession of hums and has; and, in fact, ..."
6. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"... been accurately taken, one doubts if Porto-Bello sold, without shot fired, to
the highest bidder, at its floweriest, would have covered such a sum. ..."
7. The Mountains of California by John Muir (1907)
"... the hives being placed in the rear end of a wagon, which was stopped in the
afternoon to allow the bees to fly and feed in the floweriest places that ..."
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