window-flowers

Updated: July 6, 2025

When she came downstairs her mother said, 'I have been thinking what I ought to wear to Miller Loveday's to-night. 'To Miller Loveday's? said Anne. 'Yes. The party is to-night. He has been in here this morning to tell me that he has seen his son, and they have fixed this evening. 'Do you think we ought to go, mother? said Anne slowly, and looking at the smaller features of the window-flowers.

Thomas Hardy - The Trumpet-Major

And when on hot nights windows are left open, and I can look in at Dinner Parties, as I peer through lace curtains and window-flowers at the silver, the women's shoulders, the shimmer of their jewels, and the divine attitudes of their heads as they lean and listen, I imagine extraordinary intrigues and unheard of wines and passions. Social Success

Logan Pearsall Smith - Trivia