Hares, Parroquets, Pinks, and Columbines as the marks of the suits.
The noise had become incessant: Pierrots and Pierrettes, Harlequins and Columbines had worked themselves up into a veritable intoxication of shouts and laughter.
Behind them a bevy of Columbines in many-coloured tarlatan skirts and hair flying wildly in the breeze, giggling, pushing, exchanging ribald jokes with the men behind, and getting kissed or slapped for their pains.
Start in on that bed, Racey," she directed, nodding her head toward the columbines and wall-flowers.
Baby-blue-eyes, low and lovely, cuddled down between tall columbines and orange wall-flowers.
So they dug up but a comparatively small number of the hepaticas, nor did they take many of the columbines nodding from a cleft in the piled-up rocks.
I feel as if those columbines were birds that had perched on those rocks just for a minute and were going to fly away, and I didn't want to disturb them before they flitted.
There are blue crocuses and hyacinths and 'baby's breath' for your earliest blossoms, and blue columbines as well as pink and yellow ones!
Pit and boxes hear the ravings of the mad Ophelia with the sense of superiority secured by plush, but the most of them would be better men and women for having gathered that nosegay of columbines and rue.
There were Columbines and Canterbury Bells and blue Bells of Coventry and Lilies and Candy Goldilocks with Penny flowers or White Sattin and Fair Maids of France and Fair Maids of Kent and London Pride.
There should also be at least a dozen Columbines (Aquilegias) to bloom the end of May and the first of June.
Illustration: Lilium auratum growing behind Peonies and Columbines that bloomed earlier August tenth] Lilium candidum, which blooms before the other Lilies, is hardy and fragrant and increases rapidly.
Patty was wreathed with columbines and decked with some turkey feathers that she had put in her basket as too pretty to throw away.
He had chattered like a magpie, eaten like a bear, is torn his jacket getting wild columbines for Patty, been nicely darned by Waitstill, and was in a state of hilarity that rendered him quite unrecognizable.
It looks all right on the columbines in the Indian Cellar," replied Patty, turning and twisting the hat on her head.
Some of the ladies brought home columbines that had been drowned; others brought home beautiful green mosses with red bugs in them; and others brought home lichens and ferns and neuralgia.
Like the Monkshood and Larkspur, the columbines also belong to the group of irregular buttercups.
The columbines make beautiful garden plants and the Blue Columbine as well as one or two other native species is cultivated.
On the south slope the hepaticas have gone and the columbines show a trace of red blood, while on the north, one is in perfection and the other only as yet making leaves.
Both the English and Kashmir lilac were in blossom, and the columbines were in perfection.
Of course, she did not have to get columbines for the preaching service.
To find columbinesfor church decorations," she said with an answering smile.
Why not ride over to Del Oro Creek, where the season was later and the columbines would be just coming on?
He would speak, Beulah Rutherford knew, to a mere handful of people, and it was to mitigate his disappointment that she rode out into the hills on the morning of her disappearance to find an armful of columbines for decorating the desk-pulpit.
Beulah had expected to find her columbines in a gulch back of Big Flat Top, but the flowers were just past their prime here.
In places where wild gardens have been formed the effect of Columbines in the Grass has been one of the most beautiful that have been obtained.
Cherry, you've got too many columbines in that horn.
What an effective screen those brakes and columbines make!
A little way up the less-used of the two branches there was a glade where columbinesgrew in extraordinary profusion.
The columbines were gone; only a brave, pale blossom here and there lingered pathetically in a waste of dried and drooping stems.
Her eyes, as she did so, fell again upon the bouquet of columbines lying forlorn, their tender faces half buried in the dry grass.
That's about the time the columbines blow on the hills.
Wade's last few whispered words to Moore had been interpreted that the hunter desired to be buried among the columbines in the aspen grove on the slope above Sage Valley.
Clusters ofcolumbines waved their graceful, sweet, pale-blue flowers that Wade felt a joy in seeing.
Columbines bloomed in all the dells among the spruces, beautiful stalks with heavy blossoms, the sweetest and palest of blue-white flowers.
Out in the aspen groves, where the grass was turning gold, the columbines blew gracefully in the wind, nodding and swaying.
The most exquisite and finest of these columbines hid in the shaded nooks, star-sweet in the silent gloom of the woods.
Seventeen years ago miners working a claim of Belllounds's in the mountains above Middle Park had found a child asleep in the columbines along the trail.
Purple and deep-blue and pale-pink columbines are growing up everywhere; each flower with its own little pairs of twin turtle-doves hidden away inside.
I am afraid Lois thought longingly, all through the silence on a May Sunday, of the nosegay of columbines she meant to gather afterwards.
The Rocky Mountain and Yellow Columbines furnish the finest garden forms and are the parents of several beautiful varieties.
Though it has been stated that the Columbines prefer the rocky hillsides, it must not be supposed that they will not tolerate a home in the border of a garden flower bed.
Proceeding up the gentle slope that led from the gate, a number of columbines and rose-bushes scattered in wild profusion, indicated where once had been the Prince's garden.
The western bay ends in a river of swamp, and all along the north side the wood screens a broken wall of fern-grown cliffs, with quantities of columbines among their crannies.
Columbines sprung up there in the sunshine and danced on their slender stems as they peeped in at him with rosy faces, while green moss went creeping up the sides of the rock as if eager to join in the music.
Columbines sounded their red horns, and the air was filled with delicate voices, unlike any ever heard before, because it was the sweet breath of flowers set to music.
She folded it up in white violet leaves, like a sweet-scented napkin, and with a horn of honey from the columbines set out again with many thanks and full of hope and courage.
Then through the narrow opening two arms were stretched out to her, and all the columbines danced for joy that Thistle was found.
She was just wondering where she should find some dinner, and here was a delicious feast all ready for her, thanks to the pretty dress which made the columbines think her a flower.
Bud thanked him very much, and went happily on till she came to a party of columbines dancing in the wind.
We are the marsh-honeysuckles, cousins of the columbines you met to-day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "columbines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
