bloomings

Updated: May 25, 2025

Ezra Slimm was a widower of nearly a year, and, as a consequence, was in a state of mind not unusual in like circumstances. True, the said state of mind had not in his case manifested itself in the toilet bloomings, friskiness of demeanor, and protestations of youth renewed which had characterized the first signs of the same in the usual run of Simpkinsville widowers up to date.

Ruth McEnery Stuart - Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches

Timson had them in thickets an' carpets an' clambering over trees and tumbling over walls in sheets an' torrents just know their ways an' what they want, an' they'll grow in a riot. But they want feeding feeding. A rose is a gross feeder. Feed a Glory deejon, and watch over him, an' he'll cover a housetop an' give you two bloomings." "I have never lived in an English garden.

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Shuttle