bloom
noun
the flower of a plant.
bloomless
-
a word derived from
bloom.
Example Sentences
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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
Berries medium to large, black, purple, green, or even whitish, thin blue bloom or bloomless.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
Proserpine "forgets the earth her mother" and goes to her "bloomless" garden:— "And spring and seed and swallow Take wing for her and follow Where summer song rings hollow And flowers are put to scorn."
From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
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
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
