bloom
noun
the flower of a plant.
bloomless
-
a word derived from
bloom.
Example Sentences
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And this resolution had been no bloomless bud.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various
The bloomless days are dead, and frozen fear No more for many moons shall vex the earth, Dreaming of summer and fruit laden mirth.
From Among the Millet and Other Poems by Archibald Lampman
Lord Hermiston was coarse and cruel; and yet the son was aware of a bloomless nobility, an ungracious abnegation of the man’s self in the man’s office.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
She had been betrayed by love itself; and what cared she now for her future, her embittered, bloomless, scentless life, when he had deceived her --he, the only one whom she had loved?
From Queen Hortense A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
Sweet when the winter of disease is past, And the glad spring of health returns at last, On a loved cheek long bloomless, to behold Its first faint leaf the trembling rose unfold.
From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby
