Floweret

As the sun shines both on the cedar and on the floweret, so the Divine Sun illumines every soul, great and small, and all correspond to His care—just as in nature the seasons are so disposed that on the appointed day the humblest daisy shall unfold its petals ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

I once made the mistake of garnishing with whole chive blossoms and did NOT caution unsuspecting guests that the chive flowers should be eaten floweret by floweret. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It came, a floweret bright, amid the cold of winter ❋ Fr Timothy Matkin (2006)

Now bounding over a rock, now playfully whisking off with his riding rod a floweret in his path, Philibert de Coquelicot rode by his darker companion. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The balmy freshness of the air, which breathed the first pure essence of vegetation; and the gentle warmth of the sun, whose beams vivified every hue of nature, and opened every floweret of spring, revived Adeline, and inspired her with life and health. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It is like a floweret which exhales its best perfume at the kiss of the first ray of the sun. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Her faultless nature, one sum of perfections, is wrapt up in her affections — if they were hurt, she would droop like an unwatered floweret, and the slightest injury they receive is a nipping frost to her. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Kovalev moved a little nearer, pulled up the collar of his shirt, straightened the seals on his gold watch-chain, smiled, and directed special attention towards the slender lady as, swaying like a floweret in spring, she kept raising to her brows a little white hand with fingers almost of transparency. ❋ Unknown (1952)

For the gentle, domestic old man was often now, as in his docile childhood, charged to "mind the baby," and one of the quiet pleasures of his latter days was the sight of the little floweret, that grew so sweetly beside his sere and withered life. ❋ S. Elizabeth Hall (N/A)

Catullus says "the floweret," -- _flosculus_: Ariosto particularises the rose, -- the _bel giardin_, "the beautiful garden," stands for _septis in hortis_, the enclosed. ❋ Various (N/A)

It does not combine with other vegetables very readily, but a cooked floweret or two may often be used to garnish another vegetable salad. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Many a floweret is born to blush unseen, the poet says. ❋ James A. Cooper (N/A)

Yet I weep, thou sweet floweret! for soon, from the sky, ❋ Various (N/A)

I told you that he was no lonely floweret wasting his sweetness on the desert air, and that the competition where you would compete was keen. ❋ Francis Barton Fox (N/A)

He was a young man attired in faultlessly fitting clothes, with shoes of flawless polish and a perfectly proportioned floweret in his buttonhole. ❋ Unknown (1928)

Within the past two weeks three landscapes and an allegorical painting had sold for good prices; and under the influence of success he expanded like an opening floweret. ❋ Unknown (1928)

Sometimes an affectionate significance is given: beleta = pretty. libreto = booklet. dormeti = to doze. monteto = hill. floreto = floweret, floret. rideti = to smile. lageto = pond, small lake. vojeto = path. ❋ Ivy Kellerman Reed (1922)

So said the water-drop to the child, but scarcely had she finished her story, when the root of a For-Get-Me-Not caught the drop and sucked her in, that she might become a floweret, and twinkle brightly as a blue star on the green firmament of earth. ❋ Frances Jenkins Olcott (1917)