But first, gathering divers flowers, wherewith the whole sward was bejeweled, I placed them, with my white hands, in a corner of my robe, and then, sitting down and choosing flower after flower, I wove therefrom a fair garland, and adorned my head with it.

Many times I have come bearing flowers such as my garden grew; but now I offer you this poor, brown, homely growth, you may cast it away as worthless.

Never Atticanever the whole of Greece, produced a lovelier flower than was this woman.

"She do be like to a stag for grace o' body, and wi' the eyes of a stag" "Nay, master, her eyes do be maid's eyes, look'ee, very soft and sweet, and her hair, look'ee" "Her hair do be like a forest-pool brim-full o' sunset" "Not so, master, her hair is red, look'ee" "And each day she do bring us flowers, master" "And suckets, look'ee, very sweet and delicate, master.

From nettled young Democracy, He plucks the safety-flower.

"When COTTON MATHER came over in the Grate Eastern, he sent out a dove to see if the Pilgrims, would allow her to pick any flowers off of Plymouth Rock.

What she really cared for was a young fool who could dance with her in this silly new-fangled gliding style, and send her flowers and sweet-meats, and make love to her gliblyand a petticoated fool who would envy her fine feathers,and, at last, a knavish fool who would barter his title for her money.

"He'd never seen a pink moccasin flower, and I gave him the one I had and told him where it grew.

You will find no new flowers at Matocton, though.

Did you notice I gave her a flower this morning, and she stuck it in her dress?"

Mourners, too, wore flowers at the funeral rites, and Homer relates how the Thessalians used crowns of amaranth at the burial of Achilles.

She gazed upon a world she scarcely knew, As seeking not to know it; silent, lone, As grows a flower, thus quietly she grew, And kept her heart serene within its zone.

He is the mountain streams' own darling, the humming-bird of blooming waters, loving rocky ripple-slopes and sheets of foam as a bee loves flowers, as a lark loves sunshine and meadows.

When he got back he took her flowers and at the same time set down the basket with the rabbit in it, with the lid open.

She moved, and from her slender hand Fell off her mother's wedding-ring; She smiled into her father's face "So drops from me each earthly thing; My hands are free to hold the flowers Of the eternal spring.

When poor people throw into it a few flowers, it becomes immediately full, while some very rich people, wishing to make offering of many flowers, might not stop till they had thrown in hundreds, thousands, and myriads of bushels, and yet would not be able to fill it.

Looking after the parlors, halls and dining rooms, arranging flowers in the rooms, waiting on the table, and going after the mail was my regular morning work, the year round.

"Every bell in the city pealed for joy; from palace and from hovel, from magazine and workshop, the townspeople poured in throngs into the streets and squares; some took to letting off firearms, some to strewing flowers; some hoisted flags on the towers, some decked with them their balconies; everybody was shouting 'Italia!

Iridion, however, decided that the occasion would warrant her incurring the risk even of a kiss, and lost no time in setting forth upon her errand, carrying her poor broken flower in its earthen vase.

When the car was a hundred paces from the gate, the king put off his crown of state, changed his dress for a fresh suit, and with bare feet, carrying in his hands flowers and incense, and with two rows of attending followers, went out at the gate to meet the image; and, with his head and face bowed to the ground, he did homage at its feet, and then scattered the flowers and burnt the incense.

Mr. Parlin bought some flowers, baskets, and other toys, to carry home to Susy and Prudy.

"At three P.M., just as people were gathering for the funeral, the quick, glad cry: 'I smell flowers, sweet, sweet flowers!'" Alas!

Mr. Tebrick (and this was all part of his plan) then took a vase and went to find some water for them, but left the flowers beside her.

"Cobbs," said Master Harry, one evening, when Cobbs was watering the flowers, "I am going on a visit, this present midsummer, to my grandmamma's at York.

Attributing, then, the symbolical character of the rose to its tutelary planet, they regard the earth in the same light as the ancients did the chaste Diana, and believe that she plants this her favourite flower in the moon, whenever she loses a votary.