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Usage examples of blossom.

Handsome foliage and blossoms, showing much of anthers, growing on the banks of the Itchen canal.

The patio, idealized by anisette, floated at the bottom of an aquarium, and the cages covered with cloths looked like ghosts sleeping under the hot scent of new orange blossoms.

Trailing shoots of the bougainvillea swayed in the night breeze, and a branch of Banksia roses struck him, the clusters of blossom making a scented rain upon his face.

The top of the shaft was battlemented, and she caught splashes of color between the teeth of the stone scarps, as if flowers were massed there and spilling blossoms against the whiteness of the tower.

The flowers of this Bedstraw bloom towards August, about the time of the Feast of the Annunciation, and a legend says they first burst into blossom at the birth of our Saviour.

She waited, still in concealment, until bright lights blossomed around the trailing edges of the fins, pulsing in a danger array.

And as he stared at it, he imagined that he himself was such an alembic, simmering away inside just like this one, out of which there likewise gushed a distillate, but a better, a newer, an unfamiliar distillate of those exquisite plants that he tended within him, that blossomed there, their bouquet unknown to anyone but himself, and that with their unique scent he could turn the world into a fragrant Garden of Eden, where life would be relatively bearable for him, olfactorily speaking.

Hyacinth, bending fondly over the little ones that blossomed by her side.

His words came out in a bubble of the liquid, and only when more pain blossomed on his body did he learn she had heard him.

Australian walking sticks feed on a rare Borneo orchid that has blossomed this day.

As the Year of Dryjhna approached, such symbols blossomed in chaotic profusion, every wall in every city a scroll of secret code.

Some waxed bright and energetic, while others blossomed faintly in fitful rhythm.

Scoring his palm, he let his blood fall in scarlet drops, and anemones blossomed where it fell.

My blood leapt in answer and my cheek blossomed with heat where she touched me.

Pain, unexpected, blossomed in me like an old acquaintance come to visit, the scent of crushed ferns filling my nose.