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I tore down the flowery wallpaper and painted the walls white.
Over centuries of such husbandry, Bashkirians and bees and pine forests and flowery meadows thrived.
It was gold with a flowery design carved into it.
It was covered in beautiful paintings of angels in large flowery meadows.
The walls were light blue, and the top was bordered with wallpaper of some blue and green flowery sort.
A few minutes later I found myself crawling under the flowery, feminine covers with Ms. LaMonica, wishing for Jen to be there with me.
Thoughts flitted across my mind like butterflies in a flowery meadow.
It had a large queen-size bed, beside the far wall by a window, covered with a beautiful, flowery quilt.
My hall bathroom is covered in a festively flowery wallpaper.
Threads formed flowery designs on the material, shaping leaves, mountains, and other natural landscape.
The beds had cast iron bedsteads and flowery covers with frilly edges.
Her room was entirely pink wallpaper and flowery things that made me cringe at the very sight of them.
All the walls had a flowery pattern for wallpaper.
Carmen's head whipped around searching for a remnant of comfort before partially hiding beneath the safety of the flowery, pink bedspread.
The walls were decorated with paintings and flowery designs.
Groves of golden aspen, flowery meadows, ponds, and outcrops of limestone break up the dominance of the regal coniferous forest.
She stopped to stare at every little thing from the banister to the flowery wallpaper to the family photos ascending the stairs.
The walls were decorated with flowery wallpaper and an old photo of a man and his beautiful wife and two little girls.
Her drawings suggest an idyllic world, where quaintly dressed children play amid flowery meadows and trim gardens.
Wherever paint met tape, and therefore stuck to tape, both tape and paint now came away from the wall, exposing the flowery wallpaper underneath.
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(scent/perfume)floral
Suddenly, I smelled a light, flowery scent coming towards me.
She was at least a head shorter than he and he could look down on the top of her head, smell the light, flowery fragrance of her hair.
Nora's perfume, a flowery scent, is also often smelled, and music from a piano playing, sometimes with a woman singing, may also be attributed to this lady of the house.
Even the lightest, most flowery perfumes contain a trace of musk.
I could smell the flowery sent of her lotion as Krista wrapped her arms tightly around my neck.
A strand of her light brown hair brushed the hand he held at his chest, and he caught the faintest hint of a flowery perfume.
Its flowery, strongly aromatic character makes it ideal for this purpose.
So I breathed in deeply with my face still buried in the crick of her neck, and under the scent of alcohol was Theresa's flowery perfume smell.
It smelled disgustingly of sickly sweet burning candles and flowery hand lotion.
With the smell of warm earth and fragrant fruit and flowery herbs, this is nothing if not enticing wine, glimmering red like some medieval jewel.
Geoff smelled her flowery perfume as he led her around the floor during the dance.
Kehris leaned against him smelling the flowery scent he always carried with him.
Plus, before I packed them, I gave them a good dousing of Emeraude cologne so they'd smell extra flowery.
I recognize the flowery smell from when I kissed her at the ill-fated party.
The perfume was a little flowery for his taste, but it was strong and would do the job.
He could smell her again, that sweet, flowery fragrance that he used to sink himself in just as he used to sink his fingers into her wealth of honey-brown hair.
As much as I could remember was that Heather's perfume was sweet and flowery, and wasn't the least bit like Jamie's.
His nose itched as he caught a whiff of her flowery perfume.
To add to his woes, the redhead's excessively flowery perfume was giving him an overwhelming urge to sneeze, right in her face.
I found myself intoxicated by her scent, a flowery perfume.
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(hillside/meadow)florido
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(style/compliment/prose)florido
In one case on another railway, using the flowery writing of those years, a big bonus was to be paid ‘provided the sound of a steam engine whistle was heard in the town’ by a certain date.
Mireeve was growing tired of the flowery speech.
His approach allowed me to see that not all food writing has to be flowery prose.
Don't soil your writing with flowery language.
The writing is full of exposition and flowery, stilted language that may in fact be historically accurate but in large measure prevents the characters from coming to life.
Carrey savours every flowery speech and villainous smirk in a performance that is more disciplined than one might have imagined.
Initially, there was a much longer post here, full of no doubt very embarrassing similes and attempts at flowery poetic language.
Actually I never really did panic very much - it was just a bit of flowery writing.
Don't give me a flowery phrase for the sight of flames crackling against the dark night sky.
When you think of a Shakespearian play, most conjure up memories of high school productions, period costumes and long and flowery speeches in an outdated and hard to understand language.
Kabary, the flowery speeches given at all formal, ancestral occasions in the central highlands, are recognized as requiring great skill.
He would have ridden into the fort with every hair in place, given a long flowery speech, and went off somewhere without so much as wrinkling his robes.
Her character has to contend with flowery, overwrought speeches full of melodrama that are meant to generate some degree of humor, but which tend to fall flat.
Although it was slightly scratched it appeared to be the same flowery writing as Mrs. Hornbeam's.
One year an English teacher would say my writing was too flowery, another year it was not expressive enough.
As she watched Brandywin step forward to make yet another flowery speech, Alex tried to ignore the two women behind her.
I don't look at my leads as a chance to show off my flowery writing.
Such writings could be in flowery language indeed, as in this excerpt from one spirit writing in my collection.
No doubt, he was going to end his speech with a flowery, cliché phrase like ‘children are the future.’
You may be able to turn my mother and sister's heads with your flowery speeches but not mine.