Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sea-anemone or some similar zoantharian.
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Examples
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It is a pretty sight, and the neatness and dispatch of the mossers make the odd sea-flower gardens attractive patches on the beach.
The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth Agnes Rothery
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The social calm in which she had expanded had developed her nature as gently and securely as a sea-flower is unfolded below the reach of tides and storms.
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She had the air of an impalpable Undine, a creation of sea-foam and sea-flower; an exquisite suggestion of the ethereal which floated beauty, as it were, into her face.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel William John Locke 1896
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Camille and I rode horseback, side by side, with no one near enough to smile at my sentimental laudations of the morning's splendors, or at her for repaying my eloquence with looks so full of tender worship, personal acceptance and self-bestowal, that to tell of them here would make as poor a show as to lift a sea-flower out of the sea; they call for piccolo notes and I am no musician.
The Cavalier George Washington Cable 1884
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"The still prayer of devotion" here answers, in rhyme and reality, the simile of the sea-flower in the unseen deep, and the mariner's compass represents the constancy of a believer.
The Story of the Hymns and Tunes Theron Brown 1873
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The social calm in which she had expanded had developed her nature as gently and securely as a sea-flower is unfolded below the reach of tides and storms.
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A sea-flower flung on an awfully barren beach: O that the Shepherd would fold that lamb!
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On beds of green sea-flower thy limbs shall be laid;
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The social calm in which she had expanded had developed her nature as gently and securely as a sea-flower is unfolded below the reach of tides and storms.
Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home Bayard Taylor 1851
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There it lay looming in the heated atmosphere, spreading as if in the air, just above the surface of the water, to which it appeared joined in the middle by a dark stem, as if it grew like a huge sea-flower.
Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" Harriet Martineau 1839
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