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Sentences starting with flowers

Flowers of the sea, but what eyes, what carriage, and what an air! [11]
Flowers and shrubs ornamented the flat roofs, on which the Egyptians loved to spend the evening hours, unless indeed, they preferred ascending the mosquito-tower with which nearly every house was provided. [10]
Flowers were opening on many of the shrubs and shedding rich, oppressive perfume. [10]
Flowers were abundant now, and she had dressed her rooms tastefully with them. [6]
Flowers bloom there, always, the reader can easily believe--people suffer and sweat, and swear, morning, noon and night, and wear out their stanchest energies fanning themselves. [5]
Flowers were set about, and everything was made ready as for a guest. [11]

Sentences ending with flowers

Did she give you these flowers? [10]
A doorway, closed with light curtains, opened on to a long balcony with a finely-worked balustrade of copper-gilt, to which clung a climbing rose with pink flowers. [10]
In the garden, which is a room of the house, the tall callas, rooted in the ground, stand about the fountain; the sun, streaming through the glass, illumines the many-hued flowers. [4]
In the windows were lovely flowers. [4]
Though their speeches were flattering and well-worded, Melissa repulsed them by remarking sharply that she did not want their flowers. [10]
There's plenty of water and sand, and palmetto roots and palmetto trees, and swamps, and a perfectly wonderful vegetation of vines and plants and flowers. [4]
The evening air was laden with the scent of the sweetest of all shrubs and flowers. [9]
Then she had wandered through the deep grass, her tiny feet scarcely turning a fragile blade, and she had dreamed beside some old faded flowers. [13]
This spot Guida used to "flourish" with flowers. [11]
Dolly continued to twine the flowers. [9]

Short sentences using flowers

Did he send the flowers? [9]
And the flowers kep' coming. [11]
These country flowers! [4]
The flowers? [10]

Sentences containing flowers two or more times

The governor sent them flowers and--" "Flowers--Lord Mallow sent them flowers! [11]
As they entered the living-room, the gardener had just brought in fresh flowers, among them three rose-bushes covered with full-blown flowers and half-opened, dewy buds. [10]
White violets were the flowers of death, and the first flowers he had ever given her were purple violets, the flowers of life and love. [11]
You must manage that these flowers reach them, with a warm greeting from me, but mind, the message must be given with the flowers. [10]
There you shall see waxlights on the table, and finger-glasses with green leaves, and fine linen and napkins, and plenty of silver--even silver wine-coolers, and beakers of fame and beauty, and flowers, flowers everywhere, and fruit of exquisite charm. [11]
Life was to me a sunny garden with golden trellises and shady trees and waters as bright as crystal, with rosy flowers and singing birds; and he, he has darkened its light, and fouled its springs, and broken down its flowers. [10]
When Carnac saw Junia she was entering the dining-room with flowers and fruit, and he recalled the last time they met, when she had thrust the farewell bouquet of flowers into his hand. [11]
When Elsa and I had flowers enough, we sat down with the others, and it was pleasant there to rest in the shade of the lime-tree, whose leaves fluttered in a soft air, while bees and butterflies hovered above the flowers in the warm sunshine. [10]
She took the flowers from Ned, one by one, and to the wonderment of Captain Lige and her--father strewed them hither and thither upon the table until the white cloth was hid by the red flowers. [9]
Not a lane between multitudinous flowers standing upright on their stems--no, these flowers were always kneeling; kneeling, these human flowers, with their hands and faces lifted toward Joan of Arc, and the grateful tears streaming down. [5]

More example sentences with the word flowers in them

He has taken your illness very much to heart, I know, and he left some fruit and flowers for you. [9]
And what do you want to go and discourage the other flowers for? [5]
Selene is living, you send her flowers, and if I should think proper to conduct Hadrian to the house of Paulina--" "Oh! [10]
Graciously look over yonder, Your Highness; does it not seem as if the wood fairy herself had laid by the roadside for your illustrious Majesty the fairest flowers that bloom in field and forest, mere and moss? [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]
You poor, dear woman, how you loved flowers, and no one has brought you even one! [10]
The cooks vied with them and with each other, and as if by magic, in a short space of time a richly-adorned banquet for the hungry guests appeared, at which even the flowers were not wanting. [10]
He came up with the floating flowers, and near enough to reach them. [6]
A huge chandelier with prisms hung over the flowers at the centre of the table, which sparkled with glass and silver, while dishes of vermilion and yellow fruits relieved the whiteness of the cloth. [9]
The rooms blazed with light like a conflagration; the flowers burned like lamps of many-colored flame; the music throbbed into the hearts of the promenaders and tingled through all the muscles of the dancers. [6]
A ship wreathed with flowers was sent to fetch the honored old man, and at the head of the deputation was his own brave, strong son, now crowned with glory and fame. [10]
I do not wish to run the risk of giving names to the ecclesiastical furniture which gave it such a Romish aspect; but there were pictures, and inscriptions in antiquated characters, and there were reading-stands, and flowers on the altar, and other elegant arrangements. [6]
My laughing and winking young friend undertook to procure and arrange the flowers for the table, and did it with immense zeal. [6]
The door and windows of the little house were open that balmy afternoon, and the bees were buzzing among the flowers which Cynthia had planted on either side of the step. [9]
From queer old-fashioned windows along the curve projected boxes of bright flowers, and over the edge of one of these boxes hung the head and shoulders of a cat--asleep. [5]
My Egyptian mistress will be delighted, for she is very fond of flowers, and may I ask you to tell the king and the Achaemenidae, that under my care this rare plant has at last flowered? [10]
There are plants which open their flowers with the first rays of the sun; there are others that wait until evening to spread their petals. [6]
Handing the flowers, which he had kept hidden behind his back, to her, he said: "Take them and carry them to mother, Bessie; this is the anniversary of her wedding-day. [10]
Baskets of flowers which had half unpeopled greenhouses, large bouquets of roses, fragrant bunches of pinks, and many beautiful blossoms I am not botanist enough to name had been coming in upon me all day long. [6]
You were ill when it left the harbour, garlanded with flowers and adorned with purple sails. [10]
Their charming heads were wreathed with flowers too, and looked very like the lovely rosebuds which one of them, on seeing the young men come up, held out to their notice. [10]
The maidservants who were opening the shutters glanced gaily out into the streets, and arranged the flowers in front of the windows or bowed reverently as a priest passed by on his way to mass. [10]
The only flowers were contained in three vases on the mantel, and were lilies of the valley, red and white roses, and arbutus. [6]
We even thought we smelled the flowers at first. [5]
Is there any way for us Protestants, when love for the dead longs to find expression in action, except to adorn with flowers the places which contain their earthly remains? [10]
She painted, she was passionately fond of flowers, and her room was always filled with them. [9]
At first he was not friendly, but when he saw how much I liked his flowers he grew fond of me, and set me to work to tie wreaths and bunches, and to carry them to his customers. [10]
A burly wine-grower was elected to represent Dionysus and was seated with nothing but some wreaths of flowers to cover his naked limbs, in a four-wheeled sacrificial car of beaten brass. [10]
His stern life was crowned with flowers by many hands, and he acknowledged these favours verbally and perhaps--as he did to you in all these letters--with the reed. [10]
When their hunger was appeased, the wine flowed more freely, and each guest was decked with sweetly-smelling flowers, whose odor was supposed to add to the vivacity of the conversation. [10]
I have always wanted to be good, but something has always driven me where the flowers have a poisonous sweetness, where the heart grows bad. [11]
All over the walls hung the little prints and engravings, framed in wreaths of moss and artificial flowers, or in elaborate square frames made of pasteboard. [4]
In the farther wall of this store-court was a very high doorway, that led into a large garden with rows of well-tended trees and trellised vines, clumps of shrubs, flowers, and beds of vegetables. [10]
Why, look here--Shakespeare walked backwards before that tailor from Tennessee, and scattered flowers for him to walk on, and Homer stood behind his chair and waited on him at the banquet. [5]
It is on view everywhere, it is garlanded with flowers, offerings are made to it, it suffers no neglect. [5]
We are getting used to driving right into the central court of the hotel, in the midst of a fragrant circle of vines and flowers, and in the midst also of parties of gentlemen sitting quietly reading the paper and smoking. [5]
They sat with us, but behind great posies of flowers, as it were in an isle of bliss; yet were they in our midst, and showed how glad it made them to have so many loving hearts about them. [10]
We took with us many tokens of their thoughtful kindness; flowers and fruits from Boston and Cambridge, and a basket of champagne from a Concord friend whose company is as exhilarating as the sparkling wine he sent us. [6]
A tear fell upon one of the flowers of the stays. [9]
The bay-window gave upon a garden that was ablaze with foreign and domestic flowers and flowering shrubs. [5]
All the way up we have found wild flowers in the greatest profusion; and the higher we ascend, the more exquisite is their color and the more perfect their form. [4]
Susannah's gardener ties up flowers like that. [10]
I do not understand the flowers of speech, and desire plain language. [10]
But all has turned out well--only that Argutis, whom every one treats as if our old Macedonian blood ran in his veins, was sent yesterday by Melissa with finer flowers for Caracalla's cenotaph than for her own mother's tomb--May her new-fangled god forgive her! [10]
Lise was a truer daughter of her time and country in that she had the national contempt for law, was imbued with the American hero-worship of criminals that caused the bombardment of Cora Wellman's jail with candy, fruit and flowers and impassioned letters. [9]
And so they travelled on in silence for a long time, and slowly they came to the opal haze, which smelled sweet as floating flowers, and gave their hearts a halcyon restfulness. [11]
And the family travelled in a coach as grand as Mr. Carvel's own, with panels wreathed in flowers and a footman and outrider in livery, from which my aunt descended like a duchess. [9]
A curtain of transparent gauze screened him from flies and gnats, and a tightly-woven mat of lilies and other flowers covered his feet and exhaled sweet odors for him and for the pretty singer who sat by his side. [10]
Approximations, synopsized speeches, translated poems, artificial flowers and chromos all have a sort of value, but it is small. [5]
Under the oak, too, were flowers and grass, but it stood among them scowling, rigid, misshapen, and grim as ever. [2]
There were vineyards, too, and thrifty patches of vegetables, and lines of flowers set in the carefully raked mould. [9]
As we sat together, laying the flowers side by side, he constantly told me something about his son, and his beauty and goodness and wisdom. [10]
It was made to walk among the trees and flowers, it is as simple as you please; and yet it has a distinction that makes you stare. [9]
Life has leaves to tread And flowers to cherish; summer round thee glows; Wait not till autumn's fading robes are shed, But while its petals still are burning red Gather life's full-blown rose! [6]
She would try to slip the flowers into his hand, with the money, as a token of her gratitude. [10]
All the seats to sit in, all the statuary to inspect, all the flowers to smell. [4]
Now I venture to say that any painter or sculptor of real genius, though he may do nothing more than paint flowers and fruit, or carve cameos, is considered a privileged person. [6]
He had attempted to pluck many flowers in his day, and had not been unsuccessful. [11]
The stream began to murmur by the door, and the fragrance of growing herbs and flowers came softly on the vernal breeze. [5]
I even forgot to lay any flowers on my mother's grave, as usual on the day of the Nekysia, because I was thinking only of him. [10]
They were everything to her--and the wild flowers, too. [9]
It was easy to hear in his tone of voice that her bold venture was at least as praiseworthy as it was blameworthy in his eyes, and the grave man was as cheerful as he commonly was only when among his flowers. [10]
Then we begin to drop in here, three days before she's due, to encourage him up, and ask if he's heard from her, and Saturday we all come and fix up the house with flowers, and get everything ready for a dance. [5]
These blocks were to be set on end in a platter, in the center of dinner- tables, to cool the tropical air; and also to be ornamental, for the flowers and things imprisoned in them could be seen as through plate glass. [5]
There was little to be done in the last arrangement of the dead, but she could place the delicate, pale hands in a more natural position, and the flowers which the gardener had brought to adorn the coffin did not satisfy her. [10]
The Vicomtesse began to arrange the flowers in the bowl, and I watched her, fascinated by her movements. [9]
For the first time he sees the sun, moon, and stars, flowers and trees, perhaps even a beautiful human face. [10]
Even the youths, thy immediate attendants, are never seen to smile; though cheerfulness, that sweet gift of the gods, usually belongs to the young, as flowers to spring. [10]
We followed her through winding paths bordered by shrubs and flowers, and presently came to a low house surrounded by a wide, cool gallery, and shaded by spreading trees. [9]
However, he plowed through these papers, removing unnecessary flowers and digging up some acres of adjective stumps, and then succeeded in getting two of the articles accepted. [5]
During their stroll through the garden Ephraim was asked to help her cull the flowers and, when the basket he carried was filled, she invited him to sit with her in a bower and aid her to twine the wreaths. [10]
As he passed through the dining-room, he waved his hand to his wife and glancing over the table, said: "This decoration was not necessary, least of all the flowers. [10]
Up they climbed, through narrow ways in the forest--ways hedged with alder and fern and sumach and wild grape, adorned with oxeye daisies and tiger lilies, and the big purple flowers which they knew and loved so well. [9]
And yet she threw the costly birthday gift aside as if the flowers were apple parings. [10]
You no doubt think as I did--life's devious ways were strewn with sweet-scented flowers, but ah! [5]
But the remarkable thing about it is that heretofore in all nations and times, and in all changes of fashion in dress, the rose has held its own as the queen of flowers and as the finest expression of sentiment. [4]
They say when they let one of their big wells burn away all winter before they had learned how to control it, that well kept up a little summer all around it; the grass stayed green, and the flowers bloomed all through the winter. [8]
But every year there come from New York a box of flowers, and every year P'tite Louison send him a 'Merci, Charles, mille fois. [11]
In certain of them, big bouquets of fresh and brilliant tropical flowers had been frozen-in; in others, beautiful silken-clad French dolls, and other pretty objects. [5]
Then she made them show her the lovely, richly-tinted and fragrant gift, first on one side and then on the other, buried her face in the flowers, and secretly kissed the delicate petals of a lovely, half-opened rose-bud. [10]
To one of them Mr. King was presented, Mrs. Stimpson--a stout woman with a broad red face and fishy eyes, wearing an elaborate head-dress with purple flowers, and attired as if she were expecting to take a prize. [4]
He read in them love, true, self-sacrificing love; not like pretty Carmen's or that given by the ladies, who had thrown flowers to him from their balconies. [10]
I have found them in all the descriptions of the Nile valley, and afterwards often enjoyed the delicious perfume of the golden yellow flowers in the gardens of Alexandria and Cairo. [10]
The birches with their sticky green leaves were motionless, and lilac-colored flowers and the first blades of green grass were pushing up and lifting last year's leaves. [2]
Garlands, stripped of their leaves and flowers, still crowned their heads and hung over their shoulders. [10]
The smell of the wood-mould mingled with the fainter scents of wild flowers. [9]
The hazy sunlight, the warm and drowsy air, the tender foliage, the opening flowers, betokened the reviving life of nature. [5]
We all admire the tasteful display of flowers in foreign towns: we go home, and carry nothing with us but a recollection. [4]
Farther away from the road flowers of even greater beauty blow, seen by no mortal eye; they deck themselves in beauty for no one but for their Creator, and because they rejoice in themselves. [10]
At any rate, the rider of the donkey had just heard something he did not like, for he was looking anxiously at his bunch of flowers. [10]
At last, when the perfumes of the flowers told us we were nearing the garden, she turned to me. [9]
Nondescript, likewise, seemed the new minister, Mr. Randlett, as he prayed unctuously in front of the flowers massed on the platform. [9]
And yet--such is the mystery of Providence--no one would expect that one of the sweetest and most delicate flowers that blooms, the trailing. [4]
I never saw the like--and yet looking as beautiful as Satan, too--and couldn't seem to do anything but paw bread crumbs, and pick flowers to pieces, and look fidgety. [5]
Your blue, Eva, the hue of these flowers, will remain mine whether I wear it in honour of the Blessed Virgin, or--if the world does not release me--in yours. [10]
Everywhere flowers, before the house, in the windows, at the railway stations. [4]
The flowers and the hedges had grown to a certain wildness; and the smell of the American roses carried me back-as odours will-to long-forgotten and trivial scenes. [9]
Dewdrops glittered on the grass and flowers in the meadow with the cart, and in the landlady's little garden. [10]
The figure in the garden with the flowers turned. [11]
Every day while the garden lasted flowers were in my room, and it was Banks who told me that she would allow no other hands than her own to place them by my bed. [9]

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