Flow'rs

For all this, she had nothing about her of the paint'd Harlot, nor did she attempt the pert Gaiety of a Frenchwoman with colour'd Ribands, Flow'rs, &c.

A Madison Avenue shoe space. Ann Althouse 2008

Shield her ye Trees, ye Flow'rs around her grow_, &c.

A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney

Before that time her muse had been sylvan, speaking of "Flow'rs of May," and hinting at thoughts that overcame her when she roved the woodlands thro '; but now the inspiration was become decidedly municipal and urban, evidently reluctant to depart beyond the retail portions of a metropolis.

The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907

Only the transient is fair, smiling answer'd the God! Love, and Youth, and the Spring, and the Flow'rs, and the Dew, they all heard it;

Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 Edward Ziegler Davis 1901

Flow'rs that were flow'rless cover all the ground;

Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan Various 1880

Flow'rs for their graves, and prayer for each loved soul,

Purgatory Mrs. James Sadlier 1861

Flow'rs of all hues, with sweetest fragrance stor'd;

The Farmer's Boy A Rural Poem Robert Bloomfield 1794

When we see the Flow'rs bud, don't we look for the Bloom?

Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs Robert Bloomfield 1794

_ Oh! Madam, that's the over-dress'd Lady in _Fuller's Rents_, the first in _England_, that wore Flow'rs in her Hair; She has 5000_l.

The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) Thomas Baker 1704

Which cou'd (since Flow'rs without due moisture die)

The Third Part of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley Being his Six Books of Plants 1689