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Example sentences for "nosegay"

Lexicographically close words:
nose; nosebag; nosebags; nosebleed; nosed; nosegays; noseless; noses; noshun; nosing
  1. This is a nosegay for the middle of the table.

  2. And who is this bright-looking woman walking with hasty step along Orchard Street so early, with a large nosegay in her hand?

  3. The nosegay lay on the path, however, and picking it up, Katy exhibited to the girls a long end of black thread, tied to the stems.

  4. The nosegay moved faster, and at last vanished under the gate, while a giggle sounded from the other side of the hedge.

  5. Found a most exquisite nosegay waiting for me at home, so sweet, so brilliant, so fragrant and fresh.

  6. I could have listened to this strange oracle for a day; but in the midst of his discourse he was summoned to dinner; and presenting his son to us, who presented a nosegay to me, left us to wander about his singular domain.

  7. Returned home at about half-past five, dined at six; found another beautiful nosegay waiting for me, from my unknown furnisher of sweets.

  8. On returning home, I found a most lovely nosegay of real, delicious, fragrant flowers.

  9. I am worthy of better things than a ride in the cart with a nosegay in my hand; and though I care not much about death in itself, I am resolved, if possible, not to die a highwayman.

  10. He showed us where he lived, in a small cottage near unto the ramparts; and nothing would serve him but to gather for me in the garden a nosegay of early flowerets which just had raised their heads above the sod.

  11. Mr. Engelman himself might be envious of such a nosegay as that.

  12. Jack promenades the room, with a superb nosegay in the button-hole of a glorious blue coat.

  13. May I offer you a nosegay which he allowed me to gather?

  14. He presented me with a rose from the nosegay when I entered the room.

  15. Upon finishing the note an impulse to accompany it with a small nosegay culled from my window box came upon me.

  16. Obeyed the impulse, note and nosegay being despatched by special messenger to the home of her uncle.

  17. She is already on her way back, having achieved a nosegay of surpassing sweetness, when Mr Percy Marvale hurries out of the library window with a letter in his hand.

  18. Monimia, holding the nosegay in her hand.

  19. No," said the young lady, and laid the nosegay very quietly in her basket.

  20. Thou that wert so stalwart and so full of grace, thou who didst appear like unto a nosegay of flowers.

  21. Daughter, my flame, lie still and take repose, Thou art a nosegay culled from off the rose.

  22. Coming still nearer with the expiring breeze, we saw that the Frenchman had a second whale alongside; and this second whale seemed even more of a nosegay than the first.

  23. Pretty fellow you with the nosegay in your buttonhole to talk of selling!

  24. It would tease you to carry flowers, Mr. Auchester, or I should be tempted to gather a nosegay for you to take back to London.

  25. And I have had no nosegay brought in a wheelbarrow to throw on to the stage.

  26. She dropped a brisk curtsey, and walked back along the gallery, humming a little tune, and keeping time to it cheerfully with the nosegay in her hand.

  27. Mrs. Rubelle, whom I had indicated by a slight turn of my head, insolently sniffed at her nosegay and walked away, with great deliberation, towards the house door.

  28. Still true to her love for Sydney, she had planned to present the nosegay to her mother, offering the gift as an excuse for returning to the forbidden subject of her governess, and for asking when they might hope to see each other again.

  29. Linley sent Kitty away to gather a nosegay of daisies, and joined Sydney under the trees.

  30. He kissed her hand as he pressed into it a nosegay of wild flowers which he had gathered on his way.

  31. None of them begs any more; they have each a nosegay to offer you; they were out and gathering it before you had awakened out of your sleep, and the supplicating face looks as sweetly at you as the present which the hand is holding out.

  32. When the fever of his enthusiasm had somewhat abated, and he remembered the "Nosegay Fan" of early days, his admiration was more discriminating.

  33. You may believe the boy stared well, for he had never seen so pretty a sight in all his days, and before he knew it he had given her his nosegay of sheepsbane, fern, and honeysuckle.

  34. No, not of the latter; for a little nosegay of violets lay ready near the paper on which he seemed to be writing a song or sonnet to accompany the gift.

  35. Winter came on, and the nobleman was astonished to see the soldier wearing a fresh nosegay every day, though flowers were practically unattainable, and he asked him about it.

  36. The soldier told him that his wife had given the nosegay to him as an emblem of her chastity; that as long as it continued fresh, he was sure that her honor was unspotted.

  37. Then we shall see whether this nosegay continues fresh or not.

  38. I will give you a fresh nosegay: as long as the nosegay continues in this stare, you may be assured that I have not committed any bad action; if the nosegay should wither, you will then know that I have been guilty of some fault.

  39. When they arrived at the soldier's city, the soldier went to his own home and presented the fresh nosegay to his wife, who told him all that had happened.

  40. The soldier heeded her words, and set out on a journey, taking the nosegay with him.

  41. If the nosegay promised to be somewhat large and straggling, at least it would be sweet-scented, and she felt pretty sure that her father would be well content with it.

  42. Get you gone--into the meadows with you--and you may gather me a nosegay if your fingers would have work.

  43. Not that she needed these, for she had fixed in her bosom a little nosegay of yellow-leaved mint, that was quite sufficient to sweeten the scarcely moving air.

  44. At his elbow is a great un-English, unwintry nosegay of asphodel and iris.

  45. The equipment of this pleasant apartment is completed by a half-dead nosegay of what must once have been charming mountain blossoms.

  46. She gives a start, and the sky-coloured nosegay in her hand drops into her lap.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nosegay" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aroma; bale; bolt; bouquet; budget; bunch; bundle; corsage; deck; drapery; fagot; fasces; festoon; garland; incense; nosegay; odor; pack; package; packet; parcel; perfume; posy; quiver; roll; rouleau; scent; sheaf; spice; spray; truss; wreath