nosegays

• The pills Nguyen had dubbed nosegays were prototypes of an antistink drug that Wetherall had commissioned. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 03 - September 1999
• Damn those nosegays -- what I wanted to feel was irritation. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 03 - September 1999
• No one dreams now of the beautiful garden that surrounded it, and the blossoming shrubbery and beds of flowers from which nosegays were sent to friends, and the fruit distributed later on. —  A Little Girl in Old Boston
• All these many-hued dresses which covered the sands like nosegays, these pretty stuffs, those showy parasols, the fictitious grace of tightened waists, all the ingenious devices of fashion from the smart little shoe to the extravagant hat, the insinuating charm of gesture, voice and smile, all the coquettish airs in short displayed on this sea-shore, suddenly struck him as stupendous efflorescences of female depravity. —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.
• Then the nosegays, the books he got! —  Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes

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