All 8 Uses of
flora
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, has actually been arrested.†
Chpt 10
- And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that morning.†
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- Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and devotedly attached to me.†
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- It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid some terrible trap for her.†
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- I do not think Flora would hurt a fly.†
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- At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance.†
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- This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar.†
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- F. H. M.' Now my theory all along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was responsible for her disappearance.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(flora) all the plant life in a particular region or period
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Flora is also used as female name, and was the name of the Roman goddess of flowers, spring, and fertility.