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Definition of Posies
1. posy [n] - See also: posy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Posies
Literary usage of Posies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"Buy my English posies! Kent and Surrey may — Violets of the ... Devon combe—
Midland furze afire — Buy my English posies And I'll sell your heart's desire! ..."
2. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1877)
"It has not the cut of the reliques. In light blue Morocco, with leather joints,
tooled inside. GASCOIGNE, (GEORGE.)—The posies of George ..."
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1909)
"Gabriel Harvey added highly appreciative notes to his copy of The posies, still
preserved in the Bodleian library, arid bearing in his handwriting the date ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1878)
"IT posies for the parler. 1 AS hatred is the serpents noisome rod, -*-^- So
friendship is the louing gift of God. 2 The dronken friend is friendship very ..."
5. Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women by Thomas Young Crowell (1885)
"Ah! sly little Kate, she steals my roses; And Maud and Bell twine wreaths and
posies, As merry as bees in clover. Under my window, under my window, ..."
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