As they sauntered along, Thumbhi reached out his hands and plucked two pretty flowers from a bush at the side of the path, and putting one of them in his mouth handed the other to Jimmieboy.
And one Sunday, having occasion to see Jeckie about some business of the ensuing morning, he suddenly spoke straight out, as he and she stood among the flowers in her garden.
A throng of children like to flowers were sown About the grass beside, or clomb her knee: I looked who were that favoured company.
A consciousness that strews roses in the path of youth and age--not 'the perfume and suppliance of a moment,' but those amaranthine flowers that exhale incense to Heaven.
Leaves and flowers may be pressed in a home-made press and mounted upon heavy paper or cardboard.
For as Martin Luther said, "God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but in trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
There were other flowers than lilies in the garden, but the lilies were very plentiful.
As for the fragrances, they were those of the dark, damp skirts and wings of the night, the evidences as loud as voices of green shrubs and flowers blooming in low wet places; but dominant above all was the scent of the lilies.
You were in a poppy sleep on the mystic flowers of ancient dreams.
Remember this, every tree that grows has flowers and seeds; and the tree can always be told by its seeds, that is, its fruit.
Third, its curious golden-thread flowers appear in the fall.
In the sunny spots the shreds of the fringe with its beads had taken root and were growing into little flowers with beady eyes, Spring Beauties as they are called now.
For one thing, flowers must get their pollen or yellow flower-dust, carried to some other of their kind, or they cannot keep on growing good seed.
Flowers were procured from the shore, and with them the saloons were decorated.
He has also found them neglecting flowers which were rich in honey and visiting others much poorer.
What adds interest to this species is that its flowers are relatively larger and that they emit a pleasant odor of hawthorn.
I threw myself into a low chair, and the flowers on to the seat which encircled the cedar-tree.
Like calls to like across the garden of spring flowers with a cry which no interloper can still, no wanderer of later years can stifle.
There were two great bowls of flowers upon the table, some studies which had hung upon the wall were replaced with others of a more sedate character.
Sometimes in the gloomy and desolate places its growth is the sturdiest and its flowers the sweetest.
I filled my hand with flowers and made my way slowly back to the cedar-tree.
No one else is allowed to enter; only I, when Monsieur is away, am permitted once a day to fill it with fresh flowers--flowers always the most expensive and rare.
Pretty water flowers quivered in the ripples round the mossy stones, and park-like meadows sloped to the river with fruit trees heavy laden.
She says that you are beautiful flowers, but not the wild flowers of the country, and that the cold winter will kill you.
We catch the bees as they settle upon the flowers to obtain honey, and then we let them go again.
The solemn and unapproachable skies we have vulgarized; we have peeped and botanized among the flowers of light, pulled off every petal, fumbled in every calyx, and reduced them to the bare stem of order and class.
The verse flows clear and sweet as honey, and with a faint fragrance that tells, but not too plainly, of flowers that grew in many fields.
In walnuts, as well as most other nuts, the male and female functions are performed by unisexual flowers of very different type and appearance.
The catkins near the apex, on the other hand, are bisexual; pistillate flowers are found, solitary or in clusters of two or three, near the base of this type of catkin.
The results showed that five days after the commencement of anthesis a high proportion of the female flowers is receptive.
The number of female flowers was counted in all cases.
In the course of the controlled pollination work it has often been found that the female flowers drop off in the bag before the burs start to develop.
The unisexual male catkins are the first to start flowering and not until two to three weeks later will the male flowers of the bisexual catkins be in full bloom.
The remainder of the catkin bears male flowers similar to those on the all-male catkins.
The pistillate flowers on the Persian walnuts were fully opened by May 16th.
Most female flowers of shagbark have 2 stigmatic lobes, however, 3 stigmatic lobes resulting in triangular nuts are not uncommon.
Those who have observed the growth habits of nut trees know that the catkins are found on last year's growth, or two year old wood, and the fruiting flowers at the end of the present season's growth.
The male flowers occur on 3 parted, slender, glandular-hairy aments from the basal portion of the current season's growth.
Odd flowers would not hold conversations any more, tiger-lilies and peonies bother each other, the tigers being snappish and the peonies fat, slow, and irritating.
Celia thanked him, and ran off to get the receptacles for the flowers from the stately Mr. Smith, the butler, and set about arranging the exquisite blossoms.
Some of them have fine foliage, and bear handsome flowers and agreeably tasted fruit, and would form most ornamental additions to our southern gardens and pleasure grounds.
There were stables, a coach house and several out houses, also two large gardens planted with fruit trees, flowers and flowering shrubs in great profusion, one of which was plentifully stocked with vegetables of all kinds.
Just because he's old, and drank out of the same canteen with my grandfather I made a habit of keeping fresh flowers in his gray Rookwood vase.
Jealousy immediately took possession of him, and he saw in the simple flowers the offerings of a more favoured admirer.
One pixy used to place flowers on her window-sill every morning, and the maiden innocently dreamt that they were offerings from her lover, and prized them accordingly.
One morning early about this time the young man passed before her house, and noticed the flowers upon the window-sill.
Then she withdrew, taking the flowers with her, and leaving him to rage inwardly at what he considered her perfidy.
Then he disappeared, followed quickly by the rest of the pixies, leaving the young man (who now saw from what quarter the flowers had come) to meditate on the matter.
There were more low, white houses, clustering cosily together or separated by thick, dark trees, and there were shaded streets and more blazing flamboyant flowers making patches of red in the deep green.
It was as different as a flower-decked ballroom seen by the light of a thousand glittering candles, and again by sunrise when the candles had burnt down and the flowers faded.
Mechanically she paused, then drew away quickly as she saw that mademoiselle was seated at a table arranging the flowers she had gathered in the melancholy garden.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flowers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
