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Examples

  • "Wot do you s'y for 'Gimme a tuppenny packet o' Nosegay '?"

    Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army James Norman Hall 1919

  • 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 2008

  • But after the first Efforts of my Anger were past, I begg'd Libidinia to agitate in this Matter as she thought fit, only in Gross I desir'd her to restore him a certain Nosegay of Jewels, which he had presented me, and charge him never to see me more.

    Exilius 2008

  • The Cloake is laid up by Belcolore, and Sir Simon so forward in his affection; that (in briefe) he enjoyed what hee came for; and departed afterward in his light tripping Cassocke, but yet thorow by-Lanes, and no much frequented places, smelling on a Nosegay, as if hee had beene at some wedding in the Countrey, and went thus lightly without his Cloake, for his better ease.

    The Decameron 2004

  • The minor pieces included the sonnet "To the Primrose," already quoted, "My love, thou art a Nosegay sweet," and "What is Life?",

    Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" J. L. Cherry

  • Did you ever read 'Footpaths of Fate,' in the Nosegay series, sir?

    Three Men and a Maid 1928

  • Did you ever read 'Footpaths of Fate,' in the Nosegay series, sir?

    The Girl on the Boat 1928

  • Nosegay Novelette I was reading in the train coming down here, only that ended different.

    The Girl on the Boat 1928

  • Indeed, he said that it reminded him of something of much the same kind in the Nosegay Novelette, "All for Her," where the hero, anxious to win the esteem of the lady of his heart, had bribed a tramp to simulate an attack upon her in a lonely road.

    Three Men and a Maid 1928

  • Mammon, 'that Nosegay Novelette I was reading in the train coming down here, only that ended different.

    Three Men and a Maid 1928

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