1587. Golding, De Mornay, xiii. 213. The little flowers, which wee see vnblowen in the morning and withered at night.
1775. T. Percival, Ess. (1776), III. 203. A purple flower, unblown, was suspended in the vessel with the lilas.
a. 1822. [see UNBORN ppl. a. 1 b].
1845. Ballard & Garrod, Mat. Med., 226. Rosa Gallica. The dried petals of the shops are the unblown flower-buds.
1850. Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, XIX. 18, note. The formation shaped like the unblown water-lily.
fig. 1594. Shaks., Rich. III. (1597) IV. iv. 10. Ah my young princes, ah my tender babes! My vnblowne flowers.
a. 1625. Fletcher, Hum. Lieut. I. iv. How yet unripe we were, unblown, unharden’d. Ibid. (a. 1625), Love’s Pilgrimage, III. ii. I hold my beauty … As right and rich as hers,… My youth as much unblown.
1656. Duchess Newcastle, Nature’s Pictures (1671), II. 306.
| And Language utterly unknown, | |
| The Trumpet loud of Fame unblown: | |
| No Ladder set unto her Throne, | |
| The Hill untrod she sits upon. |
1784. Cowper, Tiroc., 446. Boys are at best but pretty buds unblown.
1821. Shelley, Epipsych., 265. As hair grown gray O’er a young brow, they hid its unblown prime With ruins of unseasonable time.
1893. B. Carman, Lyrics, Why, i.
| For a name unknown, | |
| Whose fame unblown | |
| Sleeps in the hills | |
| For ever and aye. |
