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  • The station was reasonably well kept, there was no litter anywhere, and the flower-boxes under each window were full with brightly coloured blooms while hanging baskets with trailing bunches of red, blue, white and yellow dangled from the station roof.

    Nevermore Jamie Marriott 2010

  • The morning after the hearing, a Cyranos Bistrot employee showed up at the restaurant to find a smashed window, destroyed flower-boxes and lattices, and a red blood-like liquid splashed on the door and sidewalk.

    The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009

  • The morning after the hearing, a Cyranos Bistrot employee showed up at the restaurant to find a smashed window, destroyed flower-boxes and lattices, and a red blood-like liquid splashed on the door and sidewalk.

    The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009

  • In 2003 I told everybody that would listen that we needed economic development in this town instead of nice-looking flower-boxes & landscaping downtown, and I was dismissed.

    Workless in America David 2006

  • A grey-haired lady was watering the flower-boxes in her window.

    In Chancery 2004

  • A horse trough and a couple of flower-boxes graced it, and by day the greengrocer could let his boxes spread over the pavement.

    Presumption of Death Sayers, Dorothy L. 2002

  • She glanced with interest along the new brick and limestone house-fronts, fantastically varied in obedience to the American craving for novelty, but fresh and inviting with their awnings and flower-boxes.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • She glanced with interest along the new brick and limestone house-fronts, fantastically varied in obedience to the American craving for novelty, but fresh and inviting with their awnings and flower-boxes.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • She glanced with interest along the new brick and limestone house-fronts, fantastically varied in obedience to the American craving for novelty, but fresh and inviting with their awnings and flower-boxes.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • Curly roofs, squiggly bits of woodwork here and there, and windows whose sills were covered with decorated flower-boxes.

    The Circus of Adventure Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952

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