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flowers
represent this season. [Art: Hall, 129]
See : Spring
Flowers
Anthea
epithet of Hera, meaning “flowery.” [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 121]
Anthesteria
ancient Athenian festival, celebrating flowers and new wine. [Gk. Hist.: Misc.]
Black Tulip, The
Dumas romance involved with tulipomania of 17th-century Holland. [Fr. Lit.: Benét, 111]
Chloris
goddess of flowers. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 59]
Tournament of Roses
New Year’s Day flower festival and parade in Pasadena. [Am. Cult.: WB, C:45]
Zephyr and Flora
wedded pair, scatter flowers from cornucopia. [Rom. Myth.: Hall, 125]
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It was a lovely country, with plenty of flowers and fruit trees and sunshine to cheer them, and had they not felt so sorry for the poor Scarecrow, they could have been very happy.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
He belonged to that natural, humorous school who took for their motto in the seventeenth century the aphorism uttered by one of their number in 1653, -- "To despise flowers is to offend God.
The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
 
 
 
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