Sentence examples for gathering flowers from inspiring English sources

And the garden itself is compared to: that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpin gathering flowers Her self a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world..

One day, out alone "gathering flowers," as the poets say, the young bride was assaulted by Aristaeus ("the best").

Many of the figured scenes are merely decorative and depict landscapes with birds and animals or figures gathering flowers.

Driven mad by her lover's murder of her father, Ophelia has stumbled while gathering flowers and fallen into the river.

It showed a large square house, with fine trees and lawn, a lady in hoop skirt gathering flowers in the foreground.

On this Saturday afternoon, a bustling market was under way in the square, where the bourgeois-bohemian crowd was gathering flowers, cheeses, sausages and exotic spices for dinner.

We received the most ridiculous amount of flowers from the Russians that night so I was delayed a bit gathering the flowers and there were all these security men backstage and I said to my security guard "what's happening?" and she said "they're clearing the whole stage because Putin is coming here to speak tomorrow".

When John Moschos was gathering his "flowers" from the unmown meadow of Christianity in the late 6th century, the Byzantine Empire was already in steep decline, and it was not long before the followers of the Prophet Mohammed finished it off.

The mime would then meet some sort of violent end, such as being attacked by a swarm of angry bees while gathering imaginary flowers.

Martha Al-Bishara, 87, whose family says she doesn't speak English, was gathering the flowers Friday on property belonging to a Boys and Girls Club organization in Chatsworth when a staff member called 911 on her for trespassing, the Dalton Daily Citizen-News reported, citing the police report.

There he is, pointing his cane over the Wisconsin valley that was his dominion, gathering heaps of flowers or lolling on a picnic blanket.