He knew he must act quickly and before any one could catch him; so he made his way cautiously to the shelter of a large, flowering shrub by the roadside. "Jewel's Story Book" by Clara Louise Burnham

" For if your flowering heart should change His colour green, Or you at length a lady strange Of me be seen, Then will my branch against his use His colour change for your refuse. "A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature" by George Saintsbury

Crossing it by a plank bridge, the young people plunged into the cool woods, dark and green, and carpeted with flowering shrubs and vines. "The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly" by Margaret Burnham