flower,

'Flusht was her cheek; she seem'd the full-blown flower,

Critical Review, 35 (May 1802), 67–75 2009

Is doomed, (frail thing!) to pluck her virgin flower,

The Age Reviewed 2010

Some claim it's as sweet as the scent of a flower,

Life, Uninterrupted RecoverylessRecovery 2010

Oh sweet offspring; oh my very blood; oh tender flower,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

They grew also behind my house, and one large tree, which almost overshadowed it, was, when in flower,

Walden 2004

Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,

Macbeth 2004

A fine wiry herbage was formed by the LAXMANNIA GRACILIS, now in flower,

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

Adalida cho: Adalida, purty little Cajun queen, sweet dixie flower,

Adalida 1998

My daddy wasn't much of a family man, but he taught us all how to ride and shoot, how to mend a fence and put up a corral. you're not talking to a hothouse flower,

The Bounty Hunter Thompson, Vicki Lewis 1995

Lawfull for a 100 of Sugar and 50 dollors for a hundred of flower,

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 25 October 1778, draft 1973