Example Sentences

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"We felt," said Campbell, "that this was an idea that could really benefit from combining the hippie and flower-children aspect with the principles of aggressive selling."

From Time Magazine Archive

The roots of the movement, however, reach back to the communes of the mid-1800s and their flower-children descendants a century later.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now it gushed everywhere, and rows of fountains, those water-children, played with the flower-children.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich

What an ado there is when she calls to her flower-children and chides them to arise and put on their dresses.

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey

Could there be a lovelier place on earth than here among Cousin Hetty's flower-children.

From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield