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nosegay example sentences
nosegay
1. For your bridesmaids, you can have them carry the traditional nosegay
2. "Here's your posy, Mother! Laurie never forgets that," she said, putting the fresh nosegay in the vase that stood in `Marmee's corner', and was kept supplied by the affectionate boy
3. I arranged them myself, remembering that you didn't like what Hannah calls a 'sot-bookay', said Laurie, handing her a delicate nosegay, in a holder that she had long coveted as she daily passed it in Cardiglia's window
4. particularly conspicuous, bowing and waving his felt hat and a nosegay over his head
5. extent, and one is accustomed to turn one's back on the drama as soon as it puts a wedding nosegay in its buttonhole
6. On the shelf over his bed the boys kept some kind of nosegay in a swanky swig glass, for Gay had loved flowers
7. But I had better tell you about the nosegay ; how I succeeded in bringing it I don't know
8. "Here's a nosegay for you; I rode just now to Madame Chevalier's, she has flowers all the winter for name-days
9. I wanted to bring you a cake instead of a nosegay, but Mavriky Nikolaevitch declares that is not in the Russian spirit
10. "Would you like me to pick you a nosegay?" I said, in such a joyful voice that Mme M
11. I had soon picked my nosegay, a poor, simple one, I should have been ashamed to take it indoors; but how light my heart was as I picked the flowers and tied them up! The dog-rose and the wild jasmine I picked closer to the seat, I knew that not far off there was a field of rye, not yet ripe
12. Close by I came upon a perfect nest of forget-me-nots, and my nosegay was almost complete
13. At last, making my way back, and going for an instant into the wood to get some bright green fan-shaped leaves of the maple to put round the nosegay, I happened to come across a whole family of pansies, close to which, luckily for me, the fragrant scent of violets betrayed the little flower hiding in the thick lush grass and still glistening with drops of dew
14. The nosegay was complete
15. I bound it round with fine long grass which twisted into a rope, and I carefully lay the letter in the centre, hiding it with the flowers, but in such a way that it could be very easily noticed if the slightest attention were bestowed upon my nosegay
16. As I got nearer I thrust it still further in the flowers; and finally, when I was on the spot, I suddenly poked it so deeply into the centre of the nosegay that it could not be noticed at all from outside
17. "If only my nosegay were close to her," I thought; "if only she had not forgotten it!" I lay down on the grass not far off, put my right arm under my head, and closed my eyes as though I were overcome by drowsiness
18. snatched up my nosegay and waved it before my face
