Five months after, when the May primroses and hyacinths were all abloom in the green seaside woodlands, Colonel Jocyln and his little daughter came home.
It was in the spring that the travellers finally reached Four Winds, just when the brooks were beginning to run with a cheerful note, and the scent of wet moss and primroses to fill the air.
Here and there primroses spangled the banks, and bushes of blackthorn--perhaps the most delicate and beautiful of all blossom--raised white stars against the flecked blue of the sky.
She left "come the fine weather," as she had promised: I remember it was the first day primroses were hawked in the street.
It would not be spring, with primroses and bluebells in flower, but a Christmas Eve when the dead life and the dead companions haunt the house, and grim Mother Holle is plucking her geese and dropping the feathers down the chimney.
While together they secured theprimroses she went on.
If you don't take care, all these primroses will fall, and then where shall we be?
There go some of these primroses again; they are such droppy things.
So the gardeners set out their potted evergreens, and covered the primroses on the balustrade against frost, and went away.
It was still early, so spring tulips were planted now on the parapet, early primroses and hyacinths.
The carpet was something of the same sort, and it reminded him of primroses hidden in the grass.
But by and by, when he was walking through the lanes, where the primroseswere dotting the hedgerows with green and yellow tufts, he began to think again of what he had heard, and his step was slow and steady as he thought.
But even the primroses were not the same thing to Herminia as those she used to gather on the dewy slopes of the Redlands; they were so dry and dust-grimed, and the path by the torrent's side was so distasteful and unsavory.
There is a charmingly fantastic conceit in one of Herrick's poems, "To Primroses filled with Morning Dew.
My Primroses at least have not this excuse, for we have Violets in abundance, and they scent all the air as we pass through the garden door.
Where are the pretty primroses gone, That lately bloomed in the wood?
But when they reached the wood and had gone some little way into it and no primroses were to be seen Hoodie looked very much disappointed.
Primroses were the flowers on which her heart was set, for birdie's grave, as Maudie had guessed.
The little children ran hither and thither with big bunches of primrosesor sheaves of blue wood-hyacinths, singing.
The roses were all over, and the yellow evening-primroses with their faint oppressive scent opened their cups by hundreds.
Some weeks later came the violets; their sweet smell betrayed them among the brushwood; and when the sun had shone warmly on the mossy ground the pale primroses came out by hundreds and thousands.
The shy violets with their fine fragrance were the mysterious harbingers of coming splendour, but the glad primroses were the glorious reality.
Even at this distance, the great clumps of primroses show like points of light on the slope of the orchard by the vicarage.
The air is full of spring time, of the breath of primroses and violets, full of pleasant sounds of country life, of the wakening of the world, of the happy voices of a hundred birds, whose glad hearts are revelling in the golden weather.
Then more primroses and a few late violets, honeysuckle, and bluebells.
I know where the earliest primrosesblow and the hedge where the birds build first.
Snowdrops and a few early primroses make a show of bloom and great fat buds are coming on the lilac trees.
Though life is gray, the primroses are coming up all the same, and the young shafts of the bluebell pierce the soft earth in spite of our heartache.
He rolled over on to his elbows and stared at the pale faces of a clump of wet primroses that stared back at him with an equal innocence of emotion.
They heard the first bird-notes begin to glorify the evenings and saw each day the hedges grow richer with pink campion, with pale drifts of primroses and the blue clusters of the dog-violets.
There was even a vase of fresh primroses on the little table by the window.
Primroses were everywhere, and in the more open spaces celandines starred the ground with deeper yellow.
The basket she had brought to fill with primroses remained empty in her hands.
The room was sweet with the primroses and white violets they had sent her from Woodcote the day before.
Milly gathered primroses in the woods, hatless, her white dress and fair head shining among the young greys and greens.
In that moment the world of work receded, the world of which Leila was the center receded--the life which had to do with lodgings and primroses and Sheffield trays was faint and blurred to his mental vision.
And when one day he chanced on a sunshiny suite where a pot of primroses bloomed in the window, he lingered and looked.
There are great yellow clumps of evening primroses and milky white nicotiana, and the roses are simply everywhere.
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