'You're a boy of business, you are, sir!' said Mr Willet, disdainfully, 'to go supposing that wintners care for
nosegays.'
It therefore, in the first place, cheered Van Systens and his
nosegay, then the corporation, then followed a cheer for the people; and, at last, and for once with great justice, there was one for the excellent music with which the gentlemen of the town councils generously treated the assemblage at every halt.
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.
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.
At first there was a great shaking of hands and shuffling of feet, succeeded by the presentation of the
nosegay; for a voice, supposed by the listener to be that of Mr Witherden the Notary, was heard to exclaim a great many times, 'oh, delicious!' 'oh, fragrant, indeed!' and a nose, also supposed to be the property of that gentleman, was heard to inhale the scent with a snuffle of exceeding pleasure.
The little interruption caused by the appearance of the
nosegay had given a new impulse to my thoughts, and had thus helped, in some degree, to r estore me to myself.
He tossed his little
nosegay of wild flowers away from him, as if the remembrances which it recalled were remembrances which hurt him now.
The sheriffs with their great chains and
nosegays, other civic gewgaws and monsters, criers, ushers, a great gallery full of people - a large theatrical audience - looked on, as the two-and-thirty and the Judge were solemnly confronted.
From the holiday gaieties of the field--the white gowns, the
nosegays, the willow-wands, the whirling movements on the green, the flash of gentle sentiment towards the stranger--to the yellow melancholy of this one-candled spectacle, what a step!
From every street and every corner drove carriages filled with clowns, harlequins, dominoes, mummers, pantomimists, Transteverins, knights, and peasants, screaming, fighting, gesticulating, throwing eggs filled with flour, confetti, nosegays, attacking, with their sarcasms and their missiles, friends and foes, companions and strangers, indiscriminately, and no one took offence, or did anything but laugh.
It was a human storm, made up of a thunder of cries, and a hail of sweetmeats, flowers, eggs, oranges, and nosegays. At three o'clock the sound of fireworks, let off on the Piazza del Popolo and the Piazza di Venezia (heard with difficulty amid the din and confusion) announced that the races were about to begin.
NOSEGAY A Bunch of fragrant flowers B Tree from which smoking pipes are made C Sentimental longing who am I?
Sabankaya's book, "The Posy Book" (temporary name) explores one of her favorite topics, Posies, or a sentiment
nosegay. Sabankaya's modern invention of a historic
nosegay, Bonny Doon Posies, have been a core part of her retail business from the beginning, and have been featured in such media as CBS Sunday Morning, Romantic Homes magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Santa Cruz Sentinel and The New York Times.
