Word: bouquets
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Carefully, three clerks sorted out 474 bottles of wine, stripped them of identi fying labels. Then they were carried into the presence. There the judges examined them for color and clarity, sniffed them for bouquet, rolled them on their tongues to test the body, then spat them out into a tin pail half-filled with sawdust...
When Margaret came on stage, the audience of 15,000 gave her an encouraging ovation. After her opening aria, Voi Che Sapete from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, the audience called her back for two bows, thundered when she received a bouquet of orchids. But as the concert progressed, limitations became evident...
...embarrassment. Evita, dressed for the first time in black, picked at lobster, watched the floor show. At the show's end two men inside a camel's skin go through various antics under the spotlight; the climax comes when the camel's rear presents a bouquet to a woman spectator. Evita was selected for the honor. She was not amused, stalked out to the sniggers of other diners...
...wife, standing and gazing. There was John sitting with Sarah; there was John sitting beside an empty marble chair (which bore an engraved inscription: "The Vacant Chair"). There was John kneeling on his wife's grave and Sarah, equipped with a set of wings, kneeling with a stone bouquet in one hand on the spot he had reserved for himself...
...Yorkers got an unlikely bouquet from James H. Gipson, peripatetic Idaho publisher: "I cannot recall a single instance of rudeness or bad manners. This is true not only of those in high places . . . but of the policemen, the subway guards, the bus drivers, and the man in the street generally...