nosegay

• I learned that a nosegay is a bouquet of showy flowers. —  Planet Debian
• We will put a sprig or two of copper beech, with its rich brown leaves, which we can get from the garden, two bits of lilac, purple and white; and though the nosegay is common, it is still very beautiful, and mamma will put it in her best vase and give it a place in the drawing-room for those to admire who have hearts to admire the wild gifts of Nature Why, Jacko, what are you grubbing up in that ditch? —  Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
• A straggling nosegay was being thrust through the roof, and he realized at once that the seeds had sprouted Why didn't you nibble the ends off?" —  "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character
• Now every good child in a home, or a school, is like a nosegay of blossoms, making the place sweet and wholesome; and every bad, vicious, unruly, child is like the smell which comes from poisoned water. —  The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles
• Daria Alexeyevna, you see that nosegay-man, that Monsieur aux Camelias, sitting there laughing at us I am not laughing, Nastasia Philipovna; I am only listening with all my attention," said Totski, with dignity Well, why have I worried him, for five years, and never let him go free? —  The Idiot

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