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  • adjective poetic as sweet or attractive as a flower

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Examples

  • The youngest ones, rosy fatlings in their mothers 'arms, or sleeping lightly in the flower-sweet air, seemed natural enough, save that they never cried.

    Herland 1915

  • Her mouth closed down upon his, flower-sweet, petal-light, and was withdrawn.

    Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • Their very hair was laden with odor, their fingers flower-sweet, their minds took on the many colors of their exquisite surroundings.

    The Man Between: An International Romance 1906

  • Mrs. Marne smiled at Mary across the flower-sweet table.

    Captivating Mary Carstairs Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

  • And happening to glance across the flower-sweet table at the moment, he was adroitly detached and re-attached by the superbly "finished" Miss Avery.

    Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

  • She leaned over him, and he felt as in a dream the old potential charm of her flower-sweet breath and glowing beauty.

    An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada A. Ethelwyn Wetherald 1898

  • The youngest ones, rosy fatlings in their mothers 'arms, or sleeping lightly in the flower-sweet air, seemed natural enough, save that they never cried.

    Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897

  • Her yellow curls were against his cheek, and her breath was flower-sweet in his face.

    At the Foot of the Rainbow Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • No matter what the later experiences or mistakes may be, the whole conception of this side of life cannot sink so low as might be the case if there were not this flower-sweet background.

    The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young Margaret Warner Morley 1890

  • Their very hair was laden with odor, their fingers flower-sweet, their minds took on the many colors of their exquisite surroundings.

    The Man Between, an International Romance Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

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