Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.
This preamble is not less remarkable for its flowery diction than for the art by which it saves the dignity of the king of Persia from the appearance of treating with any one below the rank of a monarch.
And close by us stood a father and mother, weeping over the grave of their son, a boy of fourteen, and weeding his flowery turf!
On the present occasion the Representatives of the Foreign Powers and their suites entered by the Eastern Flowery Gate, which is the sole entrance in the east wall of the Inner Palace.
The cave of the giant's retreat may be seen; and the traveller will be charmed by the fair mansion on the one side overhanging the Avon, and on the other opening down a long avenue, flowery and verdant, to the high road.
The effect is unique and beautiful, the artificial character of the arrangement being amply compensated by the exceeding luxuriance of the thick-set trees, and the soft loveliness of the verdant flowery glades which they enclose.
No more, my goats, shall I behold you climb The steepy cliffs, or crop the flowery thyme!
The meads are sooner drunk with morning dews, The bees with flowery shrubs, the goats with browze.
He gave my kine to graze the flowery plain, And to my pipe renewed the rural strain.
Come, see what pleasures in our plains abound; The woods, the fountains, and the flowery ground.
The boar, amidst my crystal streams, I bring; And southern winds to blast my flowery spring.
While on a flowery bank he chews the cud, Or sleeps in shades, or through the forest roves, And roars with anguish for his absent loves.
A dimple or two of the sunlight still steals through my flowery screen, and dances (as the breeze moves the branches) upon the oaken floor of the farm-house.
And you forget that Summer is even now lowering with its mist, and with its scorching rays, upon the hem of your flowery May!
Maiden, I am the nestless bird; Flowery boughs bar not My way.
Is it the free-born bird that makes its nest Wherever its strong wings would waft it, or The flowery plant bound by a bit of earth?
She thrust her hand among the flowery branches of the guelder roses to make their silvery balls quiver.
Thence for nine whole days was I borne by ruinous winds over the teeming deep; but on the tenth day we set foot on the land of the lotus-eaters, who eat a flowery food.
Now in a clear serious voice, she read its formal flowery sentences telling of the weekly meetings of "this now despised little band" which had awakened women to the great need of reform.
Then, in flowery metaphor, he assured them that he would not think of dragging women from their pedestals into the dust.
His appeal for workers to go to the Flowery Kingdom was as convincing as the hump on his nose, as irresistible as the fire in his eyes.
An hour later, when Mr. Hamilton came in, the happiest spot in all the Flowery Kingdom was the little living-room of "The House of the Misty Star.
Oh, I'm not expecting any flowery beds of ease," retorted Mary.
You remember what the old hymn says: "'Should I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease Whilst others fought to win the prize, and sailed through bloody seas.
It seemed that, after Nice, each stopping-place was prettier and more flowery than the one before.
The flowery knot pinned on the bare breast of mountain seemed even more to her than the "fairyland" Rose Winter had described.
There are flowery components, sir, in the language of my friend?
For thick the emerald blades shall grow, When first the March winds melt the snow, And to the sleeping flowery below, The early bluebirds sing.
Now every hovering insect to his place Beneath the leaves hath flown; And, through the long night hours, the flowery race Are left to thee alone.
The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel, To clasp the boughs above.
Now May, with life and music, The blooming valley fills, And rears her flowery arches For all the little rills.
And the conversation, descending from elevated theories concerning love, strayed into the flowery garden of polished blackguardism.
The desired articles were furnished, and the Sultan setting to work, in a few days finished a mat, in which he ingeniously contrived to plait in flowery characters, known only to himself and his vizier, the account of his situation.
The rest of the band then arrived, and the Bohemian spokesman, probably Schann, delivered a flowery discourse upon the affinity of life and death, with allusions to their guests' professions.
And behind all these things there was a flame in the man, a perfect passion for justice, for seeing people in their right places, which had led him from the more flowery ways into the world of politics.
Our thoughts can move linked together through all the flowery and beautiful places of the world, but our bodies--alas, dear!
No flowery beds of ease could be provided in her case, any more than in the case of others.
The fugitives were hopeful, but of the difficulties ahead they wot not; surely no flowery beds of ease awaited them.
Never did a couple set forward on a flowery path of early and well-suited marriage with a fairer prospect of felicity.
To a child, there is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps.
Ah, to be ever alone, In floweryvalleys among the mountains and silent wastes untrod, In the dewy upland places, in the garden of God, This would atone!
The Satyr When the flowery hands of spring Forth their woodland riches fling, Through the meadows, through the valleys Goes the satyr carolling.
Land of the Lotus, fallen from the Sun, When shall your hidden, flowery vales be won And all the travail of our way be done?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flowery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
