1 She would form these very neatly out of pieces of twig, and would then decorate them with a flower or two and walk round them admiring them.
2 It was a pity that the man who had built Pointz Hall had pitched the house in a hollow, when beyond the flower garden and the vegetables there was this stretch of high ground.
3 The flower blazed between the angles of the roots.
4 And the tree was beyond the flower; the grass, the flower and the tree were entire.
5 Down on his knees grubbing he held the flower complete.
6 Then there was a roar and a hot breath and a stream of coarse grey hair rushed between him and the flower.
7 Here came the sun--an illimitable rapture of joy, embracing every flower, every leaf.
8 No flower felt it; no field; no garden.
9 The flower petal sank; the maid returned to the kitchen; Bartholomew sipped his wine.
10 The bud has flowered; the flower has fallen.
11 And hand him, as she handed him, a flower.
12 There, sauntering solitary far away by the flower beds was Mrs. Giles escaping.
13 Now may I pluck," Isa murmured, picking a rose, "my single flower.
14 On different levels ourselves went forward; flower gathering some on the surface; others descending to wrestle with the meaning; but all comprehending; all enlisted.
15 There had been no welcome home for the young squire, no festivities, no deputation, not even a single flower.