Three acres of flowers and a regiment of gardeners," he says, "bring no more pleasure than a sufficiency.
By these curious knots the poet seems to allude, not to figures of "divers colored earth," but to the artificial and complicated arrangements and divisions of flowers and flower-beds.
First we must consider the correlation in the colors of flowers and fruits.
We have already dealt with some instances, as the occurrence of the same pigment in the flowers and foliage, in the fruits and seeds of the same plant, as also illustrated by the loss of the red or blue tinge by flowers and berries.
So it is with the number of flowers and flower-groups, and even with the numbers of their constituent organs.
Indeed, if we put aside the radiate and the color-varieties of flowers and foliage, hardly any cases can be cited.
The house was beautifully decorated withflowers and banners, a brass band played on the balcony and an orchestra within.
She was presented with a basket of flowers and a bouquet from Mrs. J.
The weather lovely; saloon cozy and pleasant with piano, flowers and canaries.
On the stage was a throne of flowers and above it an arch with the name "Stanton" wrought in red carnations on a white ground.
All down and around these two long tables great wreaths of flowers and leaves, half buried in moss, made a border of bloom, and over them the light came pouring, while the music sounded nearer and nearer, and the crowd poured in.
Rings of gaslights dropped half way down from the roof, and from them baskets of flowers swung over the great, long tables that were just one glitter of silver and glass, flowers and fruit, at which a hundred or more gentlemen were seated.
Marie cried sadly to go with us, but I promised her and petite Louise lots of flowers and berries if we get them, and the dear children were as happy as queens when I left them.
Yonder scattered groups of neat white cottages, each with its garden of flowers and fruit, are spread over what was once an open plain, thinly planted with poplar, oaks, and pine.
When all was done the house had a pleasant southern look that fitted in well with the luxuriant growth of flowers and trees in which it stood, and its red roof made a cheerful note in the landscape.
Upon arrival at the top of the hill the children lost no time in decorating the grave with wreaths of flowers and greenery, a plentiful supply of which was taken by them.
There was also a scholar of Ruoppoli, called Andrea Belvedere, excelling in the same line, but most in flowers and fruit.
In this branch, and also in flowers and fruits, one Paoluccio Cattamara, who flourished in the time of Orlandi, was celebrated.
In a little while, I am going to ornament it with banderolas, garlands offlowers and leaves, and .
The two large bancas, [7] which had been secured to transport the picnic party to the fishing grounds, were fastened together and picturesquely adorned with wreaths and garlands of flowers and a large number of vari-colored candles.
The top was gay with flags and banners of various colors, floating pennants, and massive garlands of flowers and leaves, all artistically interwoven.
There is a large plane-tree in one corner of the court, and creeping plants clamber up trellises; and there are pots of flowers and bird-cages, all of which give a very fresh and cheerful aspect to the enclosure.
He certainly makes some very elegant classical allusions to flowers and fruits, and some amusingly vague ones as well.
Edward de Goncourt, of all writers on flowers and gardens, seems to have been most frankly pleased with the artificial side of the gardener's art.
Such is the mass of June bloom at Wilbur Farm in old Narragansett (page 290)--a home of flowers and bees.
It is a very little semi-circular island, on which the arches of the bridge rest; a garden full of flowers and trees, which we overlook from the high parapet of the bridge.
The pulpit and organ were ornamented with flowering lilacs; children sat with lilac-flowers and branches of birch; the little ones had each a piece of oat-cake, which they enjoyed.
All the monks come together in a great assembly, and preach the Law; after which offerings are presented at the tope of Sâriputtra, with all kinds of flowers and incense.
When the king hears them, he goes to the vihâra, and makes his offerings of flowers and incense.
Here, nevertheless, there came back to me this old thought born in the midst offlowers and wind-rustled leaves, and I saw that with it the statue before me was in concord.
There was a wild scent from not distant woods, given out from mosses and wild flowers and turf, and the freshness of the upturned soil from ploughed fields.
Mis' Busby aint a fool neither; and when she pays anybody to go from New York here in the cars, it aint to pick her a bunch o' flowers and go back again.
This was a landscape seen between columns wreathed with flowers and creepers.
He says there is documentary authority to prove that these were woven with flowers and animals.
The ground of some of these is silver or gold, about which such arabesques in flowers and figures as I have before named are most excellently disposed.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flowers and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
