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"Florist" Quotes from Famous Books

... some flowers—violets and lilies—at a florist's near the cemetery gates. These he laid, awkwardly, at the base of the white slab from which Malcourt's newly cut name stared ...

— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers

... and looked upon the form of the "Good Knight" in his last sleep saw a large white rose in one of his hands. There was a touching story connected with that rose: On the preceding afternoon a lady, who was a friend of Field's, went to a florist's to order some flowers for the grave. A poorly clad little girl was looking wistfully in at the window and followed ...

— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson

... lady occupying a delightful corner on this same avenue, opposite a one-story florist's ...

— Worldly Ways and Byways • Eliot Gregory

... went to the bank, placed the papers behind the great steel gates of the safety deposit vault, and then crossed the street to the telegraph office. A long message was the result, and a money order to Denver that ran beyond a hundred dollars. The instructions that went with it to the biggest florist in town were for the most elaborate floral design possible to be sent by express for Judge Richmond's funeral—minus a card denoting the sender. Following this, Fairchild returned to the hospital, only to find Mother Howard ...

— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper

... vague. She is perhaps twenty-two. She is shabby. She crosses the road and looks at the daffodils and the red tulips in the florist's window. She hesitates, and makes off in the direction of Temple Bar. She walks fast, and yet anything distracts her. Now she seems to see, and ...

— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf

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