"Periwinkle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hollows in building-ground, and even for the repair of roads. A few weeks ago I passed along a road which was being treated according to the iniquity of Macadam. Over the broken stones had been shot, to consolidate them, a complex of ashes, cabbage-leaves, egg and periwinkle shells, straw, potato-parings, a dead kitten (over which a few carrion-flies were hovering), and other promiscuous nuisances. The road in question, be it remarked, is highly "respectable," if not ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 303 - October 22, 1881 • Various
... able to help laughing. He must have looked like a periwinkle stuck in his shell. Go and tell him you're ...
— The Queen's Scarlet - The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne • George Manville Fenn
... the walls Of the ruined cottage stood. The periwinkle crawls With flowers in its ...
— Last Poems • Edward Thomas
... more than any other; but of which, I must candidly own, every man in this island is more ignorant than of any other. No one, however, can deny that the system works well; and if anything at any time go wrong, why really Mr. Secretary Periwinkle is a wonderful man, and our most eminent conchologist. He, no doubt, will set it right; and if, by any chance, things are past even his management, why then, I suppose, to use our national motto, something will ...
— The Voyage of Captain Popanilla • Benjamin Disraeli
... their departure. Above the mud houses of the fellah villages rise slender columns of smoke, which are of a periwinkle-blue in the midst of the still yellow atmosphere. They tell of the humble life of these little homesteads, subsisting here, where in the backward of the ages were so many palaces ...
— Egypt (La Mort De Philae) • Pierre Loti
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