I seigh floures in the fryth, And hir faire colours; And how among the grene gras Growed so manye hewes, And some soure and some swete, Selkouth me thoughte; Of hir kynde and hir colour 7310 To carpe it were to longe.
The soyle enbrouded ful of somer-floures There wedes wycke had none interesse': Lydgate, Falls of Princes, bk.
That well by reason men it call may The daisie, or els the eye of the day, The emprise, and floure of floures all.
Of all the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floureswhite and rede, Soch that men callen daisies in our toun.
Chaucer represents the whole Court as going into the fields "on May-day when the lark begins to rise"-- To fetch the floures fresh and branch and blome.
A boke of the propreties of Herbes called an herball, wherunto is added the tyme ye herbes, Floures and Sedes shoulde be gathered .
And this herbe hathe senowes on his leves as hath Plantayne, and it hathe yelowe floures and bereth blacke berys, and it groweth in dry woodes.
The Cluster Cherry tree differeth not from the last described either in leaves, branches, or stature: the floures are also like, but never commeth any one of them to be double.
And floures fresshe, honoureth ye this day; For when the sonne uprist, then wol ye sprede.
Have hat of floures fresh as May, Chapelet of roses of Whitsonday; For sich array ne cost but lyte.
And now I woot that I mot go So fer the fresshe floures fro, 4120 To me ful welcome were the deeth; Absens therof, allas, me sleeth!
Now have I therto this condicioun That, of alle the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures whyte and rede, Swiche as men callen daysies in our toun.
Swithen's showers, The Lillie white reigns queen of the floures And Poppies a sanguine mantle spread, For the blood of the dragon S.
Michael's valorous deeds, And seems the last of the floures that stood, Till the feste of S.
The thyrd damoysel was but xv year of age, and a garland of floures aboute her hede.
The yeer hath eek leve to apparailen the visage of the erthe, now with flouresand now with fruit, and to confounden hem som-tyme 30 with reynes and with coldes.
Art thou distingwed and embelised by the springinge floures of the first somer sesoun, or swelleth thy plentee in the fruites of somer?
The odour of floures and the fresshe sighte Wolde han maad any herte for to lighte That ever was born, but-if to gret siknesse, 915 Or to gret sorwe helde it in distresse; So ful it was of beautee with plesaunce.
Flampan florisshed with a scochyn roial, theryn three crownes of golde and plantid with floure de lice of golde and floures of camomil wrought of confections.
The seedie floures grow clustering about the branches like the yong clusters or blowings of the Vine.
So on a daye, as God it wolde, Floripas to hir gardeǹ„ wente, 1552 Floripas, who was To geder Floures in morne colde.
Of twisted floures I speake not; yet is it found, that two floures grow togither, which bring foorth fiue chiues, so that alwaies there is an od chiue and od yellow, though three or foure floures should come out of one root.
The leafe or rather the blade thereof is long and narrow as grasse, which come vp alwaies in October after the flouresbe gathered and gone, pointed on a little tuft much like vnto our siues.
These flouresare gathered in the morning before the rising of the sunne, which otherwise would cause them to welke or flitter.
The leaves be long, nicked in the edges, like almost to those of the Walnut tree, and in taste bitter: the floures be of a light purple colour.
The floures be also like unto the former; the fruit or Peaches be round, and of a red colour on the outside; the meate likewise about the stone is of a gallant red colour.
Man's wretched state, That flouresso fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
When that the monthe of May Is comen, and that I hear the foules synge, And that the floures gynnen for to sprynge, Farwel my boke, and my devocion.
The pleasaunt floures for wo faded eche one, When they perceyued this shepheard dead and gone, The okes, elmes, and euery sorte of dere Shronke vnder shadowes, abating all their chere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "floures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
