She had promised to come down next Sunday and play to him again, and already in thought he was plucking carnations and early roses for her to carry back to town.
For an hour, lost to bodily fatigue, he paced up and down, past the bowl of carnations he had plucked, which mocked him with its scent.
Her carnations were the only things of which he had ever heard her speak with feeling.
Mrs. Dallas's eyes had drifted away to her beds of carnations and they now rested on them for a little while.
Mingling with the rapture, when the kiss and the scent of the carnations had blurred his mind, there was also a sense of fear.
It had hurt him terribly, no doubt, as, if they had feeling, it must now hurt her carnationsto be cut and bent and pinned.
Green leaves for Amory, then, and carnations for Dickie.
I remember a time when they were among the best-prized ornaments of our parterres, and very delicious it was to inhale the balmy breath that rose into the warm air of an autumn evening from rich masses of carnations and pinks.
There was a garden in front, with tall Mary-lilies and pink-and-white phlox and roses and carnations and thrift that grew down to the palings.
I see visions of her still in that low-cut, cerise frock, with the June sunlight glinting on the spangles of it; her creamy restaurant coat still fastened about her sturdy bare shoulders, the wilting pink carnations still in her hair.
She gave a very hard sniff at the carnations in her hand, and suggested diffidently and rather shakily: "P'raps Mr. Brace might have liked to see another gentleman here?
The detective looked polite and blank; the Jew man seemed fussing and fuming over something; the young American glanced interestedly about the room, taking everything in, down to the carnations in my hand.
The rather prim-faced and middle-aged chamber-maid who appeared in answer to our summons had a startling announcement to make in answer to my query as to who was responsible for that sheaf of glorious carnations that we had found waiting.
I stood there, one hand still full of the red carnations that I was rearranging, the other gripping the end of the pink couch.
Special mention must be made of the winter or perpetual flowering carnations which are now grown by hundreds of thousands in all parts of the kingdom for decorative work during the winter season.
Carnations of the winter-flowering or "perpetual" type have long been grown in America, and enormous prices have been given for individual plants on certain occasions, rivalling the fancy prices paid in England for certain orchids.
Carnations are cultivated both in the field and in pots.
Great baskets of rose petals and carnations line the streets and everyone dips out handfuls to toss over his neighbors and friends.
Have name cards with carnations thrust through the corner, at each plate.
Use roses, carnations or any white flower you choose.
Use blue and white hyacinths and red tulips, carnations or roses and tiny silk flags can be used for place cards.
On a blank space of the wall have two hearts formed of pink carnations and smilax, and pierced by a gilded arrow.
Decorate the dining room with silk flags and red, white and blue bunting and in the center of the table have a blue vase filled with red and white hyacinths or carnations or roses.
The dining-room and the parlor were, like those at Eide, adorned with ivies and flowering plants; oleanders in the windows and potted carnations on the table.
The girl had two fine carnations in her coat; the stalks were rather long, and so had got bruised.
And among the general public who went, was a Miss Lillian Farham, a girl who, last September, had travelled north with carnations in her coat and Rawson-Clew in a corner of the railway carriage.
Have your flowers white carnations with just a touch of green among them, and your bonbons and crystallised fruits white also.
If the table is a small one and the poinsettias are too large to be effective, have a bowl of scarlet carnationswith asparagus ferns, or put the flowers in a mound of moss.
Illustration] There are combinations of flowers which give prettier effect than does one flower alone, such as jonquils and violets, or white hyacinths, or mignonette and Roman hyacinths, or scarlet carnations and white roses.
Plaques of real or imitation Delft may hang on the walls of the room, and bowls of blue cornflowers and white carnations may stand in window-seats and on shelves as well as on the dining-table.
Mr. van der Luyden protested; and Archer guessed that he was remembering, and resenting, the hampers of carnations he had sent to the little house in Twenty-third Street.
I had sent her a few carnations from Skuytercliff, and I was astonished.
Now, across the Skuytercliff carnations and the massive plate, she struck him as pale and languid; but her eyes shone, and she talked with exaggerated animation.
Roses coming into splendour, carnations in full force, and both re-established in the cheeks of Faith Derrick.
And do not you know, my child, that carnations must draw attention to the particular point round which they bloom?
But Mignonette, what called forth such a display of the carnations you are not proud of?
In the emergency Faith took possession of the hand that invaded her carnations and turning the full display upon him asked if he would not like to have something more substantial.
Mr. Linden finished setting two or three ruby carnations in the green and purple of heliotrope and sweet-scented verbena; then laid the bunch lightly upon her lips and gravely inquired if they were sweet.
The normal flowers of the carnations are preceded by a small group of bracts, [228] which are arranged in opposite pairs and therefore constitute four rows.
Tagetes africana is liable to produce some poorly filled specimens, and some double varieties of carnations are offered for sale with the note that the seed yields only 80% of doubles.
So it is with carnations and pinks, which occasionally vary by layering, and of which some kinds are so uncertain in character that they are called by floriculturists "catch-flowers.
Double carnations seem to be relatively old, double corn-flowers and double blue-bells being [492] of a later period.
The carnations are exquisite; the gravity of infancy is not exaggerated, yet fittingly enforces the gesture of benediction.
It gains rather than loses by reproduction;--since the painting now shows a strange disagreeable colour most unlike the carnations of Holbein.
Drawn with a point which could give a line as bold or as almost impalpable as he wished, and modelled to the very texture of the surfaces, the carnations are so sufficiently indicated or rendered with red chalk as to serve every purpose.
All the carnations are superb, and in the Darmstadt picture the infant Christ wears a sweet and happy smile.
But she was still plucking carnations by the box hedge which led to the conservatories.
Next day she cut the stems of the rather scant show of carnations and refreshed them with new water.
When she tossed away the carnations she likewise tossed away her thoughts of that young man.
His glance fell upon a few carnations in a vase, and he chuckled admiringly.
She pushed a dozen carnations and asters through the bars.
O--" and he held his sides while McAllister stuck the carnations into the wash-basin.
When the roses were mulched with grass clippings at the beginning of summer a layer was placed around the Carnations, and when the Roses are sprinkled with the hose every evening the Carnations come in for their share of the moisture.
But my Pansies, Carnations and Petunias are nothing near as large or as finely marked as they were last year, and the last two flowers are all single, not a double one in the lot.
The table decorations were red in tone, there were red shades to the low electric lights, and masses of red carnations everywhere.
Don't you think that those carnations would be improved by a little more foliage at the base?
The roses were blooming now, and on fine days, when the windows were open, the aromatic perfume of the young carnationsfloated in with the sunbeams.
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