How To Use Nosegay In A Sentence
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A bouquet or two of the choicest blossoms fell on the unperturbed head of one Mr. Graves, a stony young assistant he usually carried about with him; with a second nosegay he gifted another young gentleman in his train - an interesting fac - simile of himself, being, indeed, his own son; but the full corbeille of blushing bloom fell to the lot of meddling womankind, en masse.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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Easter is also a festival that we could send flowers corsages and so on. Many persons go to churches dedicate up the nosegay .
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They would often prepare egg custard, comfits, lambs' tails, white sugar sweets, fig pies and wafers, and give their mothers nosegays of wild flowers that had been blessed in church.
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She went nimbly round and round the beds of anemones, tulips, jonquils, polyanthuses, and other old-fashioned flowers, looking a very charming figure in her half-mourning bonnet, and with an incomplete nosegay in her left hand.
Wessex Tales
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Gilchrist and his heirs would not require the batsman to take a nosegay to the crease and they tend to set the fielding side's tempo by deed more than word, more orchestra conductors than circus ringmasters.
My glove affair with keepers of the lost stumpers' art
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She put out her hand and took the nosegay.
Vanity Fair
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The procession stopped outside the church, where the prisoners received a nosegay of flowers, and stopped at a tavern or two later along the route so they could enjoy a final pint of ale.
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A nosegay, posey or posie, posy, flower bouquet or tussie-mussie is a small bunch of flowers, typically given as a gift.
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Shoeblack-boys tumbled over each other for the privilege of blacking his honour's boots; nosegay-women and flying fruiterers plied Mr. Gumbo with their wares; piemen, pads, tramps, strollers of every variety, hung round the battle-ground.
The Virginians
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We offer elegant silk bridal bouquets, romantic silk wedding flower packages, classic nosegays, corsages, boutonnières, and traditional wedding accessories.
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A uniformed man just inside the entry handed them each a small nosegay of flowers from a large wicker basket next to him.
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A wild-flower thrust into the same nosegay with the carnation was the more fragrant for the good company it had kept.
Letters of Anton Chekhov
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A nosegay of violets can be presented in a paper doily with a decorative bow.
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[Illustration: IMPERIAL NOSEGAY.] "May it please your excellency," responded the men, firmly and with unblenched faces, "we ran away, it is true; but we are not cowards.
The Land of Thor
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The Philippines were gathered in as a child gathers a nosegay.
Goliah
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The Californians want Washington to toss a struggling U.S. industry a budgetary nosegay.
Trade Fight Has Flower Growers Digging In
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Flora, seeming to give her Benediction, having a large Nosegay in her Hand, from whence spouts forth small Streams of Water, as if she meant therewith to bedew the whole Garden.
Exilius
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On terminating our remarks relating to the simple preparations of the odors of plants, and before we speak of perfumes of an animal origin, or of those compound _odors_ sold as bouquets, nosegays, &c., it may probably be interesting to give a few facts and statistics, showing the consumption, in England, of the several substances previously named.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
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All aflutter, now, I supposed, with bridesmaids and nosegays?
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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Enter 'Africander' lad with a nosegay; only one flower that I know -
Letters from the Cape
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I learned that a nosegay is a bouquet of showy flowers.
Planet Debian
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Cut fresh flowers from the garden and make up little nosegays for each table.
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Floral artists form perfect nosegays with bundled stems wrapped and tied in raffia ribbons.
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November 11, 2005 at 12: 53 pm nosegay is the best word … oh yea, its a real word. it means a small bunch of flowers
The single best word in the English language « BuzzMachine
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And, snatching the nosegay from the basket, he flung the flowers as far into the air as he could, exclaiming,
Parables From Nature
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In terms of bouquet styles, you have several options: a round hand-tied bouquet (the most popular choice), a cascading bouquet (which “spills” over the base), a teardrop shape (which is a combination of the round and cascading types), and the nosegay (a small cluster of flowers made with one dominant flower or color).
My Fair Wedding
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The bouquet itself was a nosegay of violets with a pink rose in the center.
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His head was completely covered by a pointed cap on top of which perched a nosegay of peonies.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Floral artists form perfect nosegays with bundled stems wrapped and tied in raffia ribbons.
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a paper frill round, and call a nosegay or a posy.
The Luckiest Girl in the School
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The "pignus amoris" of the former is a small earthenware vessel in the shape of a book, intended apparently to hold a "nosegay" of flowers.
Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.