The perennial garden or Grass Pinks are low-growing, with highly perfumed flowers.
The Chinese Pinks (Dianthus Chinensis, or Heddewigii) are now very popular.
There were no more red flushes of Indian pinks amongst the sun-dried grass, no more gleamings of sunlight upon lakes of sapphire blue.
Not far from the house there was a cluster of old-fashioned pinks which I was sure were not doing very well.
Mr. Barker, an excellent fellow and a most thorough business man, still manages my affairs, and there is nothing on the place that flourishes so vigorously as the bed of pinks which I got from the miller's wife.
It's like starving in the midst of plenty," I said to myself this evening as I was watering the pinks in the side borders.
Then, leaving the red-haired lunatic on the path, shaking her tresses in the sun, we went on between the lilac bushes with their undergrowth of lilies and stocks and pinks until we came to the house.
Little Dennet came running down after them with two pinks in her hands.
The sea-pinks turned brown, the sea-campion decayed to an untidy mat of faded leaves and flowers.
Along her sill were great crimson roses like cups of cool wine, and from every ghostly white border of the garden came up the delicious odor of pinks in full June bloom.
She slept in a funny little flowery room next to her uncle and aunt, and she used to lie awake in the slow summer twilights sniffing in the delicious odor of pinks in full bloom below her window.
This slope was gay with sea-pinks and fragrant with white sea-campion.
It was lined with pink and white clove-pinks and their fragrance was sweet in the night.
Her guest stooped and, rising, put one of her sweet-smelling clove-pinks in his button-hole.
Putty and paste, apart from association, are not pretty tints, and pinks and roses are; and the English children look not only fresher but sturdier and healthier than ours.
Wild pinks are slumbering, Violets delay; True little Dandelion Greeteth the May.
Should you get near enough, you would see that these branches, some of which seem to bear flowers in shapes like pinks or lilies, are dented or pitted as if tiny teeth had eaten into them.
These merry fishes darting through the next clump of bushes have only come to smell of the carnationpinks the bushes bear.
As I walked up the garden I noticed that the majority of the pinks were lying in a drunken stupor upon their beds.
As the drought wore on to its third day I began to perceive that siphoning the pinks with soda-water out of the dining-room window was insufficient to meet the crisis.
Indeed, the whole garden dressed itself gradually towards the end in white pinks and white banksai roses, and the syringe and the Jessamine, and at last the crowning fragrance of the acacias.
There was a hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air.
Edna Pontellier," fanciful and romantic to the last, chose the sea on a summer night and went down with the sound of her first lover's spurs in her ears, and the scent of pinks about her.
The miserable room was soon filled with the sweet perfume of wall-flowers, pinks and violets, which kept out the bad odors of the rest of the house, and at the same time the fresh, bright colors lent a beauty to the dark walls.
Scattered about she saw a few roots of wall-flowers, pinks and even some violets!
Many of the humblest clad, waiting half the day in line, held pinks or lilies, fast withering in the sun, to drop at the feet of the people's friend.
On the house-fronts once so gayly colored, the greens have faded to yellows, the reds to pinks, and the pinks to browns.
Babies tumble about, crushing the pinks and roses, and cabmen good-naturedly pick their way as best they can among these various vegetable and human obstacles.
Oh, if I was only there--in the sun--where the pinks and daisies are!
I might beg you to stay here a moment I would run and fetch my pot ofpinks for you--they could not fall into better hands.
He wore a coat of green velvet fastened with emerald clasps, and had a crown of pinks on his head.
Working hard in the heat had not improved his temper, and when he saw that Felicia had succeeded in finding her pinks he was so angry that he dragged her out into the garden and shut the door upon her.
She was afraid to take it until the Queen said: "It is yours, Felicia; go and water your pinks with it, and let it remind you that the Queen of the Woods is your friend.
I am so poor," answered Felicia, "that a pot of pinks and a silver ring are my only possessions in the world.
As for your daughter, I promise you that she shall be more beautiful than anyone you ever saw in your life; call her Felicia, and when she grows up give her the ring and the pot of pinks to console her for her poverty.
Felicia believed that her brother loved her, but when she sat down upon one of the stools he said angrily: "Keep your pot of pinks and your ring, but let my things alone.
A flight of steps led to a white gate and a patch of front-garden wonderfully abloom--a revel of pinks and canterbury-bells, and the velvet of sweetwilliam.
What lovely roses you have, Mrs. Kemp, and how sweet the pinks smell!
Then pinks and gilliflowers, especially the matted pink and clove gilliflower.
The pinks stand about the inn door lighting cigars and waiting to see us start, while their hacks are led up and down the market-place on which the inn looks.
The pinks and mauves flashed as the ribbon curved and frayed--and were gone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pinks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
