She buried her face in her nosegay as she walked past the king's stables. From LearnThat.org.
And, snatching the nosegay from the basket, he flung the flowers as far into the air as he could, exclaiming. From Wordnik.com. [Parables From Nature] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The single best word in the English language « BuzzMachine] Reference
I learned that a nosegay is a bouquet of showy flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Debian] Reference
A paper frill round, and call a nosegay or a posy. From Wordnik.com. [The Luckiest Girl in the School] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
The nosegay is bright and fragrant in either place. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"Like the two Kings of Brentford smelling at one nosegay.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 469, January 1, 1831] Reference
For "two cheeks freshened by youth and sea": a mere nosegay. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
"That is my brother," she went on, pointing with her nosegay. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
But who desires to be presented with a nosegay of artificial flowers?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
"The book is a very pleasant one -- a nosegay of everlasting blooms of fancy.". From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
No skim-milk smell about that, but the ginooine jam, -- an awful pooty nosegay!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Lucy and myself are going to walk to the river, and get a nosegay of wild flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782] Reference
Court House she was at perfect liberty to caress her nosegay of pinks and camomile. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
The soldier heeded her words, and set out on a journey, taking the nosegay with him. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
Few gifts at such a time are more acceptable than a fragrant nosegay of lily of the valley. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891] Reference
When our nosegay is ready, we lay the cone with the flowers very carefully in a dish of water. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1] Reference
And Aleck set to work, and soon gathered a nosegay that almost, if not quite, equalled my own. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the White-Rock Cove] Reference
The rose in your nosegay was very beautiful a little while ago; but alas! it is now quite dead!. From Wordnik.com. [A Week of Instruction and Amusement, or, Mrs. Harley's birthday present to her daughter : interspersed with short stories, outlines of sacred and prophane history, geography &c.] Reference
I had lingered behind to gather a nosegay of the small blue flowers that marked the day's march. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
"Why did you not keep one?" she said, bending over her nosegay as if absorbed in its arrangement. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
I've never forgotten the dear old-fashioned nosegay he picked and gave me from Mrs. Washington's garden. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
When Margaret reached her breakfast-room, she found a nosegay on the table, and Mr Michael Allcraft's card. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
"These bufully flowers, mamma, see," pointing to the upper surface and sides of the nosegay, facetiously termed. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
RICHARD WINTER, JAMES JOUYCE, HUGH WASHINGTON, are parts of the fragrant, yet somewhat thorny and flaunting nosegay. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850] Reference
Marcia nodded brightly to those she knew, and threw flowers from the great nosegay that had been put upon her lap by Harriet. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
Any flowers I liked, I might gather on this particular morning, but as the nosegay must not be too large, choice was difficult. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the White-Rock Cove] Reference
Her bonnet fell at the back of her neck, but being held by the strings it bobbed up and down her back like an animated nosegay. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces] Reference
Hueon, who finds a nosegay with a message, which bids him come to the myrtle-bower during the night, believes that it comes from. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Giovanna, flower in the face as she was, fit to be nosegay on any hearth, posy for any man's breast, sprang in a very lowly soil. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
She had with her all she loved, her immense nosegay, her baby Joe, and, in her small bundle, her one pair of ruffled pillow-slips. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
"Forgive me if I do not make you a bow," said he, merrily, "but I want both my hands for the nosegay Monsieur Charles has given me.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She lowered her nosegay by way of saluting, and my glasses were at once turned to the direction in which she was darting her glances. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
It remained the same quantity only then we saw what it was, was happening, under nosegay a screeching nay a barking of beauteous nooks. From Wordnik.com. [Berkeley Stations] Reference
Thursdays, and Cyril, who was but very weak on adverbs and prepositions, always gave her a sweet-smelling nosegay to begin the day with. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
But in the wood, after she had been gathering a nosegay and chasing butterflies, "just as I might do," any child might say, she met a wolf!. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Fairy Tales] Reference
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