Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Newly blown, as a flower.
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Examples
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His hair seemed like fine gold and his face a fresh-blown rose.
Cligés. English de Troyes Chr��tien
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Water; Artificial Honey; Stammering; how to make large noses small; to cure drunkenness; to copy letters without a press; to obtain fresh-blown flowers in winter; to make good burning candles from lard.
Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field Harlan Page Halsey
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Things Curious and Useful: To get clear of mosquitoes; To get rid of bedbugs; To obtain fresh-blown flowers in winter; To increase the laying of eggs in hens; The art of transferring on to glass; To prevent horses being teased by flies; To prevent flies lighting on windows, pictures, mirrors, etc.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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The boy had dropped his basket of fresh-blown flowers at his feet -- tears were trembling in his eye-lids, as he gazed on his sisters.
A Love Story A Bushman
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Thy colour, beautiful bird, is such as to resemble that which adorns a fresh-blown lotus of the blue variety.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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It tells: How to get clear of mosquitoes; how to get rid of bedbugs; to obtain fresh-blown flowers in winter.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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While fresh-blown flowers his heavenly tresses twine
The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse 54 BC-19 BC Tibullus
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Carron, upright on his small gilt chair, was pale and agitated, the primitive feelings showing in his ravaged face looking in some way more out of place, because he was exquisitely frock-coated and had a fresh-blown tea-rose in his button-hole, than they would have done if he had been shabby.
The Halo Bettina Von Hutten 1915
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Each moment was an iridescent bubble fresh-blown from the lips of fancy
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And some but caught a fresh-blown breeze with scent of pine that stirred
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