Still under the strain of the emotions of the triumphal day, and to escape the disagreeable thought the sight of the radiant gardeniasprovoked in her, she began to write a long letter to the Countess Styvens.
Slowly she droops back in her chair, the drowsy smile still on her lips; the gardenias drop into her lap; her arms relax, her head falls forward on her breast.
The spending of his money, as legitimately as though it were exchanged for guns, on casual acquaintances and rum punches, on gardenias that wilted and entertainment that choked him by its vulgar banality, gradually embittered him.
You will have to play the infatuated fool, and send me bouquets of gardenias and three-cornered notes, and give me money.
Imagine losing Gounod and Nillson for the sake of struggling through the mob on a stifling staircase, and being elbowed by inane young men, with gardenias in their coats.
Even the cluster of exotics on her shoulder were of the same pure tint, gardeniasand lilies of the valley.
He caught the perfume of the gardenias that she wore, saw the rise and fall of her bosom, the languor in her eyes, her parted lips, and a look on her face that he did not know.
Have some gardenias and lilies for the drawing-room, and let me see them.
You look more like an American beauty than the gardenias you affect of late.
Did you get thegardenias because the room shrieked for them, or because you really like them?
Alabaster skin shone luminous against the opaque white of the gardenias upon her shoulder.
Gardenias were Alexis' favorite flower and he sent them to her daily.
A cluster of gardeniasfastened upon one shoulder, nestled against the warmer tints of her flesh.
It is hard to tell where thegardenias begin and you end," he laughed excitedly.
A faint scent of gardenias was at that moment being wafted in from his well-kept, rich gardens, where somehow his boys managed to make flowers grow in the brown, devitalised earth.
Zino's orchids and gardenias lie neglected on the cold gray marble top of a corner table; with a dreamy smile, in the midst of her tears, Stella buries her face among the roses, which remind her of Erlach Court.
The climbing gardenias hung like white scarves round the dark cypresses, the hedges of Babar's favourite slipper flower were ablaze with their great flat scarlet circles.
Even the Blessed-Damozel shed slow tears as she wreathed the dead darling in drifts of scented gardenias and put a scarlet slipper blossom with its quaint "something like a heart" upon the breast.
Eugene had never seen the room since he had rushed into it, now more than five years ago, the bunch of white gardenias in his hand, and had found his cousin Lanzberg's fiancee.
Rags had at the same time purchased some gardenias for Miss Rolls, she having mentioned that the gardenia was her favourite flower.
It was a shame, however, that the effect of the orchid as well as the gardenias should be wasted, and the morning after their visit to the Hands, Ena made an opportunity of speaking to Petro alone.
And I almost hated Mr. Parker for a minute in spite of the walking-stick roses and the snowstorm of gardenias upstairs.
Gardenias would bring her image at once--gardenias wired and overpowering; but the clean and homely lavender--never!
She drew the ermine over her pretty chin, the diamonds sparkled in her hair; the bouquet of gardenias swung in her hand.
She did not care for the dancing; she hardly knew what it was like; but she thought of the lovely woman with the pretty contemptuous profile, and the diamonds and the gardenias in her hair.
As they neared the quay he took from the hands of one of his men two bouquets of gardenias and orchids, and offered them to the two ladies; they were in pretty cornucopiæ of silvered wicker-work.
Do you know you will have your gardenias for to-morrow after all?
They want some gardenias at home for button-holes; I don't know where I shall be able to get any; someone told me of a florist up by the station somewhere.
He was already dressed for dinner, and held a great bunch of gardenias in his hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gardenias" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
