And the ones I tried on were brown; the model's are in periwinkle pinstripes!. From Wordnik.com. [Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway] Reference
The Insufferable Know-It-All: Might have looked better in periwinkle. From Wordnik.com. [HP rides again] Reference
The periwinkle is a kind of shrub; it grows at the foot of the oyster-tree, and twines round it as the ivy does the oak. From Wordnik.com. [The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen] Reference
The blue flower looks like some sort of miniaturized "periwinkle". From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
I even have sparkling periwinkle eyeshadow to match. From Wordnik.com. [Good girl/bad girl] Reference
The first example, Madagascar's rosy periwinkle plant. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
periwinkle and lavender dress with a mesh periwinkle sweater. From Wordnik.com. [Good girl/bad girl] Reference
She wore a conservatively cut dress of a light periwinkle blue. From Wordnik.com. [Battlestar Galactica] Reference
She had on a periwinkle sweatshirt in preparation for the night. From Wordnik.com. [Clinch Park] Reference
What a delight it is to see a periwinkle piercing through the snow!. From Wordnik.com. [The Commission in Lunacy] Reference
"I declare I've found a periwinkle!" she cried -- "such a fine one too.". From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
So I took the class, and I used a lovely shade of periwinkle blue paper. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Leland: Productivity Palette: Which Color Is Best For You?] Reference
And the biologist identified the foreign object as a marsh periwinkle shell. From Wordnik.com. [The Killing Hour]
"The Monsters of the Deep," in No. 27, are represented by a periwinkle and a shrimp. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainments for Home, Church and School] Reference
You were just talking about what we need to watch are these species: tuna, periwinkle. From Wordnik.com. [Assessing The BP Spill's Impact] Reference
After Eunice left, I went to the rack and saw that the periwinkle silk sheath was missing. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
I felt like a kind of human periwinkle encased in boilerplate and frozen with cold and funk. From Wordnik.com. [Carnacki, the Ghost Finder] Reference
Tamy Markowitz had found a periwinkle in the sand and was pressing it into the child's palm. From Wordnik.com. [A Call to Arms]
It is a lovely periwinkle blue, embroidered intricately at the cap and then again down the front. From Wordnik.com. [Alison Stein Wellner: Burqas Made Into Evening Bags] Reference
It came with a cap sporting a stiff silly brim in front, and a cocky periwinkle-colored tuft up top. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
Disney hopes the new Angels logo and periwinkle-striped uniforms will someday reap a similar bonanza. From Wordnik.com. [Cartoons Sure Were Easier] Reference
The guy is wearing a shiny periwinkle shirt under his gray suit and is talking to a giant purple pig puppet. From Wordnik.com. [Alien Invasion!] Reference
The streets were paved with huge clam shells, and the sidewalks were of periwinkle shells cemented together. From Wordnik.com. [The Enchanted Island] Reference
There were, besides, some of the little shells that we call buckies; I think periwinkle is the English name. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
"I got some beautiful examples of the ilex and an obscure periwinkle and a white calendula, can you imagine?". From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
Raphael drew the little bit of skin from under his pillow; it was as tiny and as fragile as a periwinkle petal. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Skin] Reference
It was threaded through with a length of periwinkle blue satin ribbon that matched her embroidered muslin frock. From Wordnik.com. [Sexy Beast IV]
Rather than just seeing the dusty gravel underneath my feet and the periwinkle wildflowers beside me, I saw the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Sara Avant Stover: Unplug and Recharge: Sky Meditation] Reference
She took a small vine of myrtle she had cut; its bright periwinkle flowers glowed against the shiny dark oval leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
The rumpled shirt had a face to match — fiftyish, lived-in, blandly unremarkable except for sharp periwinkle-blue eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress for a Weekend]
I love his russet hued path in this painting, it's got blurry wisps of periwinkle and that coral color I'm talking about in it. From Wordnik.com. [madrigle Diary Entry] Reference
Colors: Old leans towards teal don't you think?, or at least fades that way over time, vs. the new "baby blue," periwinkle shade. From Wordnik.com. [hailing N.C.U.] Reference
She pulls out a periwinkle strapless dress adorned with white stars and topped with a bow by African-American designer Tracy Reese. From Wordnik.com. [Veronica Webb Keeps Order] Reference
“Hirondelle” glided between the gardens, where through an opening one saw statues, a periwinkle plant, clipped yews, and a swing. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
We also looked into some more readily available sets -- most notably, a newer Fiesta one (in periwinkle blue) from the Homer Laughlin Co. From Wordnik.com. [The Dish on Replacing Chipped China] Reference
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