Artificial Flower

Gentrification is in full, artificial-flower bloom, but, gracias a Dios, there are enough funky local Mexican stores and roadside vendors, not to mention dust and dog droppings, to keep it from going over the edge into chic. ❋ Barry Golson (2006)

An eclectic furniture collection was on her right, an artificial-flower shop on her left. ❋ Cohen, Nancy J, (2002)

As for the artificial-flower shop, which had only one window, grimy and thick with dust, it was so dimly lighted and looked so neglected that one wondered if anyone ever went into it. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1975)

In commercial life they are traders, pawnbrokers, and peddlers, and control the artificial-flower and passementerie trade. ❋ Samuel Peter Orth (1897)

And one was an artificial-flower maker, and the other a glass-blower. ❋ O. Henry (1886)

It was an artificial-flower factory, and the rooms of which it consisted were only to be reached by traversing a timber-yard, and then mounting a wooden staircase outside a saw-mill. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

Mrs. Byass had suggested the choice of artificial-flower making, to which she herself had been brought up; possibly that would do as well as anything else. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

Clem's earnings at an artificial-flower factory more than paid for that young lady's board and clothing, and all other outlay was not worth mentioning as a deduction from the income created by her sundry investments. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

It's a fact, girls; and the sister works in an artificial-flower place down in Division Street. ❋ Amanda Minnie Douglas (1873)

On the contrary, he furnishes plenty of proofs, in his long letter, that he knows well enough how to handle it when the women are not around to give him the artificial-flower complaint. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

We have an artificial-flower department in our store. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)

"But you would probably prefer your artificial-flower department the rest of the year," said Annie, laughing. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)

Nothing can surpass the innocence of the ladies 'shoe-shops, the artificial-flower repositories, and the head-dress depts. ❋ Unknown (1861)

Emma Ward, and a poor artificial-flower maker named Ziza Cattley. ❋ Unknown (1859)

Nothing can surpass the innocence of the ladies 'shoe-shops, the artificial-flower repositories, and the head-dress depots. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

Minard had married for love the daughter of a porter, an artificial-flower maker employed by Mademoiselle Godard. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

He lived with his sister, an artificial-flower maker, in the due de Richelieu. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)