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Example sentences for "posies"

Lexicographically close words:
poser; poses; posesiones; posible; posie; posing; posit; posita; posited; positing
  1. I something grand When I come up the walk with some fresh posies in my hand?

  2. Posies were in the bowpots, and a delicate scent of violets in the air.

  3. Elizabeth only forsook not her friend, going to wait upon her and carrying with her many of the posies left in daily homage to her sister and herself.

  4. I thought of you both, as we came down the street, and beheld Alice's Posies in full bloom.

  5. In Greece, bunches of flowers are suspended over the doors of most houses; and in the rural districts, the peasants bedeck themselves with flowers, and carry garlands and posies of wild flowers.

  6. Pilgrimages are made to many holy wells and springs in the United Kingdom, for the purpose of curing certain diseases by the virtues contained in their waters, or to dress these health-restoring fountains with garlands and posies of flowers.

  7. He gathered posies for her, and placed them on her desk and dressing-table; he spoke cheerfully to her, taking no apparent notice of her silence and reserve; he strove in a thousand little delicate ways to bring pleasure into her life.

  8. Her engaging manners have tempted you to buy posies of her, not always when you needed them.

  9. But I could make it a sight better 'n it is an' it might grow plenty of them posies Dorothy's so tickled with.

  10. Think of all that room for roses and posies and everything nice!

  11. And you buy just as many of them posies as you want, and you get enough to make a bunch for every one of them girls as took you in, and you take 'em to them, and tell them that's your Easter gift.

  12. She'd ruther be makin' posies an' animals out my nice clean fresh-churned butter than learn cookin'.

  13. I did find some posies, all yellow and round and--posies runned away, too.

  14. The small runaway had left her posies and her squirrel and departed, nobody could guess whither.

  15. Then I will go seek my bunny rabbit, that runned away, and my yellow posies that went to sleep when I did.

  16. Say, Other Mother, my posies want some water.

  17. He’s got the beautif’lest gardin you never see, and I pick posies for’t.

  18. I nodded "yes," and told my little maid that she was to have a white muslin, a white wand of office, posies of primroses and shining shoe buckles.

  19. But he lost his shagrin on the way, it wuz buried under the acres of posies and beautiful shrubs and trees through which we wuz passin'.

  20. I believe, reaching out and feeling for the Light as posies growin' in a dark suller send out little pale shoots huntin' for the sunlight.

  21. Who else would I give my posies to, when I love them so well?

  22. They pulled up the fragrant jasmines by the roots to make posies of them, and cut up into neckties the delicate tapestries which Lady Banfi had worked with her own hands.

  23. You've been pickin' posies too long with Mary Radford," he sneered.

  24. There's them that she'll let pick posies with her, an' them that she won't.

  25. Thirty-two kinds of posies and that want countin' the hollyhocks that grew like trees--taller'n I am.

  26. But I mistrust them posies not to last long, gi'n you dance too hard.

  27. Your posies are always fresh and sweet, but I've never known their scent so beautiful," and she sniffed with satisfaction, looking about to discover from which of the flowers it came.

  28. Everything was ready for their little stall at the market, but Aria sighed as she remarked that their autumn posies now made but a poor show.

  29. And O the wandering women know, in workhouse and in shed, They dream on Mary Shepherdess with doves about her head, And pleasant posies in her hand, and sorrow comforted.

  30. But she kept the posies of mignonette That he gave; and ever as their bloom failed And faded (though with her tears still wet) Her youth with their own exhaled.

  31. I, 'and where'll yer git the posies and what all?

  32. That same other is in here now, and it's no sin to let yer peep, gin it's ye own posies and ye chest they're in.

  33. The nosegay which her servant in scarlet livery bore in his hand was a mighty fine one; and Akusch and a gardener's boy presently came up with the posies culled for Ann and me in the Hallers' garden.

  34. Lottie had fallen asleep on the wide bench beyond the cookstove, a great bunch of posies hugged against her stained pinafore.

  35. I give up all hopes of havin' posies till Jason mends the henyard fence.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "posies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.