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- noun Alternative form of
flower .
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Examples
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Curl inward here, sweet woodbine flow'r; — 'Companion of the lonely hour,
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But I know a flow'r exceeds them all which dwells in Newfoundland.
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Father O'Flynn as the flow'r of them all. cho: Here's a health to you, Father O'Flynn,
Father O'Flynn 1997
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"Breathe on each flow'r, and bear their sweets away."
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"Breathe on each flow'r, and bear their sweets away."
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Brought a still brighter flush to their Destiny's flow'r.
The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses J. C. Manning
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The Beaux were all _prime_, and the flow'r of the nation,
The Peacock and Parrot, on their Tour to Discover the Author of "The Peacock At Home" Unknown
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The rising game, and chas'd from flow'r to flow'r.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various
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Peter, the gardener, would watch them lazily, as he leaned upon his hoe, and mutter beneath his breath, "Dat dut wuz dut, en de dut er de flow'r baids warn 'no better'n de dut er de co'n fiel'."
The Battle Ground Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909
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Hail freely, leaf and flow'r, that all thing has wrought!
"Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays Anonymous 1902
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