"The blowing season," when plants are blossoming: the "herald melodies of spring," when the birds proclaim that winter is past, give him no joy; but in his own songs he finds a "gleam of solace;" and if after death there be any consciousness retained of what has been left upon earth, "Then are these songs I sing of thee Not all ungrateful to thine ear."
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
On May 3 snow fell, but the end of the march brought clear skies, and, with them, the longing for my land of blossoming cherry and apple trees.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Conal's resting place was on a sunny hillside under a blossoming white gum in which the bees hummed drowsily in the spring time and through which the green parrots flashed all the year.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard