floweret

Updated: June 12, 2025

"I say, you know," he said. The girl looked at him. She was small, and at the present moment had that air of the floweret surprized while shrinking, which adds a good thirty-three per cent. to a girl's attractions. Her nose, he noted, was delicately tip-tilted. A certain pallor added to her beauty. Roland's heart executed the opening steps of a buck-and-wing dance.

P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse - A Man of Means

Dorcas exclaimed: "Well, I never!" and Thomas looked first puzzled, then angry, then suspicious. "Does the Teacher think that the Floweret and the old doctor have made a plot together?" asked Menzi. "Can a sweet Flower make plots and tell lies like the old doctor? Well, well, it is nothing. Now let us try something better. My bags, my bags."

Henry Rider Haggard - Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales