posies

Fast forward to the financial system today; the posies are the ratings given to securitized debt, that were supposed to provide "protection" to the primary agent of credit that powered the recent bubble.

SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

By the way, these flowers are for you as a reminder: Never mind the bad "posies" — and don't forget to smell the rosies.

mamie - French Word-A-Day 2010

By the way, these flowers are for you as a reminder: Never mind the bad "posies" — and don't forget to smell the rosies.

French Word-A-Day: 2010

By the way, these flowers are for you as a reminder: Never mind the bad "posies"—and don't forget to smell the rosies.

French Word-A-Day: 2010

By the way, these flowers are for you as a reminder: Never mind the bad "posies"—and don't forget to smell the rosies.

mamie - French Word-A-Day 2010

At this stage they would seem to be in their most decorative form, though their flowers, in a cut state, formed into "posies," are very beautiful and really charming when massed for table decoration; on the plant they have a faded appearance.

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

(_And with a weary gesture he points to the orchids, as though they were things of which, not impossibly, "posies" might be made_.)

Angels & Ministers Laurence Housman 1912

While the vallied garden of our old neighbors was sweet with blossoms, my mother's garden bore a still fresher fragrance -- that of green growing things; of "posies," lemon-balm, rose geranium, mint, and sage.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

"Parlez-vous français, mesdemoiselles!" cried madame, and we filed out into the dusty street, at the corner of which sat another of our visible tokens of the coming of the season of flowers; a dirty, shriveled old Irishwoman, full of benedictions and beggary, who, all through the summer, sold "posies" to the passers-by.

Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls 1872

Irishwoman, full of benedictions and beggary, who, all through the summer, sold "posies" to the passers-by.

Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863