Gardenia radicans is a dwarf plant, which flowers freely when of very small size, and is easily propagated from the readiness with which its stem throws out roots; but G.
He had connected the gardeniain the young man's coat with the roses of the girl who was weeping.
The fellow is to wear a white top-hat, and a gardenia in his button hole.
You will there be accosted by an individual in a white top-hat, and with a gardenia in his button-hole.
I have been presenting five hundred golden sovereigns to a perfect stranger, with a top-hat, and a gardenia in his button-hole.
Each bottle of Calsobisidine came complete with an intimate smile from the pitchman, a fresh gardenia pinned on the breast by his clever fingers and a trial sample bottle.
His shoes were waxed and buffed; his hair fell in a black curl across his high forehead; his gardenia dripped dew like the ones in the box by his elbow.
West--Charles Gardenia West--" A scream from Miss Miller applauded the witty hit.
It represented West, unpleasantly caricatured, garbed in a swallow-tail coat and enormous white gloves, with a gardenia in his buttonhole, engaged in booting a lad of singular nobility of countenance out of an open door.
He's a pretty smooth fellow, Charles Gardenia is--a little too smooth for my way of thinking.
Why, Plonny, I thought you were rooting for Charles Gardenia West.
Every woman has a white gardenia flower stuck on the left side of her glossy black hair.
She took the artificial gardenia and put it away in a safe place, after she had kissed it; and she wondered when she remembered how she had blushed last night when Bosio kissed her that once--that only once that ever was to be.
One hand rested on the mantelpiece, with the other she touched the artificial gardenia in her bodice.
Drawing it back quickly, she selected a white gardeniafrom her bouquet and gave it to me with a bewitching smile.
He engaged himself in conversation with an old flower-woman, and, as she had only a solitary gardenia left in her tray, he bought it in order that she might go home.
Printed in the United States of America Published April, 1916 [Illustration: Her eyes flashed to the white gardenia on his breast, then up to his own.
Van Dam saw that the stranger wore a black domino like his own, and that a white gardeniawas pinned over his heart--it was a twin to the flower that reposed upon his own breast.
Her eyes flashed to the white gardenia on his breast, then up to his own.
He was still smiling as he bought a white gardenia and placed it in his buttonhole.
He flushed up like a girl; and she pointed to the gardenia in his button-hole.
The extra whiteness showed even on her gardenia skin, and her great eyes gleamed sullenly from beneath her lowering brows of ink.
For there was a great difference in her present transparent, snowy whiteness, with the blue-circled eyes, to her habitual gardenia hue; even her lips were less red.
No bride ever looked more beautiful or distinguished, with her gardenia complexion and red burnished hair, all set off by the velvet and dark fur.
Her wonderful hair seemed burnished like dark copper, in the double light of fire and day, and that gardenia skin looked fit to eat.
The police observed that many of them, still in groups of twos and threes, went to the Gardenia restaurant in Catherine Street, Strand, a place where many Suffragette breakfasts and teas had been held.
There were orange trees in blossom, and coffee trees with masses of sweet white flowers lying among their flaky branches like snow, and the unfailing cocoa-nut rising out of banana groves, and clusters of gardenia smothering the red hibiscus.
The grass houses of the natives cluster along the waters' edge, or in lanes dark with mangoes and bananas, and fragrant with gardenia fringing the cane-fields.
The double forms of Gardenia florida (a native of China) and G.
She could not, or would not, understand why passion should not be content to amuse and worship her, just as a furnace fire may only bake a porcelain cup or call to life a gardenia blossom.
The number of the magnolia, kalmia, and gardenia trees increased, and also of the yucca gloriosa, which until now were situated principally in the neighbourhood of the dwellings.
Had he been dressed a shade less perfectly and resisted the gardenia in his button-hole, he would have been better disguised.
And you'd have tried to give me a leg up, if it only ran to buying a gardenia for old times' sake.
Tearing the gardenia from her breast, she flung it on to his upturned face.
She crammed her hand against her mouth to stop herself from speaking and the crushed gardenia filled her nostrils with its cold, fragrant velvet.
The scent of the gardenia was strong in her little bedroom, and pleasant to her.
Her hand clasped his against her heart, she turned her face backward, up to his, closing her eyes so as still not to see his face; the scent of the gardenia in his coat hurt her, so sweet and strong it was.
She looked her prettiest; and she bought a gardeniaat a shop in Baker Street and fastened it in her dress.
Sarah Hopkins refers to Genevieve and Roberta and me as gardenia girls!
I'll bet she'd give ten years of her life and her European education to be a gardenia girl and have three or four men in love with her and be cut in on every few feet at dances.
In his lapel a gardenia was carefully placed so that it should not obscure the button which proclaimed him a Son of the American Revolution.
The atmosphere is heavy with the fragrance of a gardenia shrub in full bloom, the odour of cigarettes, and the aroma of some subtle Indian perfume.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gardenia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
