But the productions, though dissimilar, were in all probability contemporary, just as the crabs and periwinkles of the Frith of Forth are contemporary with the frogs and lymnea of Flanders moss.
We want scavengers to clear away the superfluous vegetation, and we find them in the periwinkles which we see attached by their foot-stalk to the glass.
Gerard says, "the Nettle is a good medicine for them that cannot breathe unless they hold their necks upright: and being eaten boiled with periwinkles it makes the body soluble.
They occur elsewhere, too, as upon weedy rocks, while a great many kinds dwell upon or within the bodies or coverings of other animals, from whales to periwinkles and crabs.
In shape and elaboration of ornament it resembled a throne, and as a finishing touch the motto "A Happy Birthday" was placed in yellow periwinkles at the foot.
Here a small community must have lived, and hunted and fished, and fetched limpets and periwinkles from the beach to eat as dessert.
Numbers of the yellow periwinkles are then to be found crawling on the sand, and striving to regain their place in the seaweedy rocks as soon as possible.
The periwinkles are remarkable for the great length of the tooth-ribbon, in comparison with the size of the animal.
The sea-weeds will be found studded with mollusks,--as Snails and Periwinkles of many queer varieties.
And of these, Snails and Periwinkles claim our respectful attention, as the most faithful, patient, and necessary scavengers of the confervoid growths, which soon obscure the marine aquarium.
The air seemed alive with butterflies and moths, white and brown and red, and clouds of the "blue skippers" that look like periwinkles blown to life.
Her hair was done in a classic knot and held with a comb--a present from Aileen--designed from periwinkles and green leaves and sparkling dew-drops.
The periwinkles ate the cress, and the bugs ate each other, until there was only one left; then he began to dine on the periwinkles; so we planted them all out in the ditch.
We used to have someperiwinkles and some bugs in a glass jar, and lovely water-cresses growing, too.
Of truth in aught they heard before; For they gained by Periwinkles little And lost by Locusts ten times more!
They are shells of oysters and clams and periwinkles that we have eaten.
The next day, when the tide was out, the boys waded in and picked up periwinkles and oysters and clams, and threw them up on the beach.
She was almost afraid to advance close, for the periwinkles that crept over the two graves had grown luxuriantly thick, spreading over them like a torn pall.
Elizabeth would have turned that way, for the vines were quivering with dew-drops, and the periwinkles trembled like cerulean stars among them, so deeply did the shadows lie there almost till noonday.
The rivulets of periwinkles that flowed down them when first she arrived were gone, and now there were these bushes, incredibly rosetted.
All down the stone steps on either side were periwinkles in full flower, and she could now see what it was that had caught at her the night before and brushed, wet and scented, across her face.
They could not have seen the periwinkles or the violets, but only the irritating and fine gray rain in the gray sky.
They and the rare periwinkles and the furze are the only flowers of this season.
And the blue eucalypti against the walls will lend their voices, the yellow acacias will add their cadences; while down by the great lagoon, ten thousand periwinkles will dance for joy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "periwinkles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
