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Sverta†™ s tendrils stroked his chest and flower-buds burgeoned on her skin, bursting moments later into full display.

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Sverta†™ s tendrils stroked his chest and flower-buds burgeoned on her skin, bursting moments later into full display.

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So soon as adolescence was attained — in plants this was represented by the formation of the first flower-buds — the need and appetite for

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

The fleshy appendage at the lower extremity of the sea-pen (described at Bahia Blanca) also forms part of the zoophyte, as a whole, in the same manner as the roots of a tree form part of the whole tree, and not of the individual leaf or flower-buds.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The fleshy appendage at the lower extremity of the sea-pen (described at Bahia Blanca) also forms part of the zoophyte, as a whole, in the same manner as the roots of a tree form part of the whole tree, and not of the individual leaf or flower-buds.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Sunshine and a stirring wind were poured out over the land, fleets of towering clouds sailed upon urgent tremendous missions across the blue seas of heaven, and presently Mr. Polly was riding a little unstably along unfamiliar Surrey roads, wondering always what was round the next corner, and marking the blackthorn and looking out for the first white flower-buds of the may.

The History of Mr. Polly 2003

At a certain season its big, trilobed, hollow-stalked leaves changed from bright green to pale yellow and lingeringly fell, and often before the last disappeared, flower-buds registered the date with almost almanac exactitude.

Tropic Days 2003

They hug the stem closely in compact single rows in progressive stages, the lower tier ripe, the next uppermost nearly so, the development decreasing consistently to the rudiments of flower-buds in the crown of the tree.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

And yet the pomelo and the lemon and lime trees, broken and crippled, are already displaying flower-buds, and with the tender green of new leafage emblematize the most alluring of the cardinal virtues — Hope.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

I drank down the song as a thirsty plant does water, freshening and growing, feeling in folded flower-buds the core of fruit.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978