"Periwinkle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... over the dark trailing periwinkle, through the little gate canopied with honeysuckle. For a minute he stayed beneath the elms, calling himself fool and treble fool; then he followed, though at a little distance. She went before him, in her ...
— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston
... which always tempts artists by the brilliancy of the first act; but the fourth act, which belongs entirely to him, is distressingly heavy and useless. It might be taken out of the piece just like a periwinkle out of its shell, and the piece would be none the less clear ...
— My Double Life - The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt • Sarah Bernhardt
... know a great man from a little one. However, the hired attendants did their duty, and the name of Fizzybelli was fizzed about the room in every direction. Dr Plausible trod on the corns of old Lady G—-, upset Miss Periwinkle, and nearly knocked down a French savant, in his struggle to obtain the door to receive his honoured guest, who made a bow, looked at the crowd—looked at the chandelier—looked at his watch, and looked very tired in the course ...
— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat
... graveyard, midway of one of Fletcher's fallow fields. The gate was bricked up, after the superstitious custom of many country burial places, but he climbed the old moss-grown wall, where poisonous ivy grew rank and venomous, and landing deep in the periwinkle that carpeted the ground, made his way rapidly to the flat oblong slab beneath which his father lay. The marble was discoloured by long rains and stained with bruised periwinkle, and the shallow lettering was hidden under a fall of dried needles from a little ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... tinkle, Through fern and periwinkle The cows are coming home; A-loitering in the checkered stream Where the sun-rays glance and gleam, Clarine, Peachbloom and Phoebe Phillis Stand knee-deep in the creamy lilies In a drowsy dream; To-link, to-lank, to-linklelinkle, O'er banks with ...
— Standard Selections • Various
... in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trail'd its wreathes; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys ...
— Lyrical Ballads, With Other Poems, 1800, Vol. I. • William Wordsworth
... Grimsby one thousand pounds was paid by a local shipowner for a blue periwinkle. In recognition of his generosity no charge was made for ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Aug. 22, 1917 • Various |
