Steamed in wine or baked

Usage examples of periwinkle.

They rode from the manor house to the church for their wedding not in the carriage but upon the backs of Wrolf and Periwinkle, with Zachariah, Wiggins and Serena following behind with bows of gold and silver ribbon tied round their necks, and they were met at the lych gate by all the children of Silverydew dressed in their best, with their arms full of flowers, singing the Bell Song to the accompaniment of the bells pealing out overhead.

Atlas because he bears up heroically beneath my weight, and Periwinkle because the flower I named her after grows close to the earth and is called by country people Joy-of-the-ground.

So avoidMerryweather Bay, my dear, but go anywhere else you like provided Wrolf, or Periwinkle, or both, are with you.

Sir Benjamin, as he too dismounted, and tossed his reins to Dig weed, who had appeared to take Atlas and Periwinkle to their breakfast.

The pony carriage had obviously not been used for years, but it must have been got for somebody, and Periwinkle had seemed quite used to having a lady on her back.

And then the little cavalcade, Maria on Periwinkle, with Wrolf and Wiggins one on each side of her, trotted gaily out of the stableyard, through the garden and out through the unlocked door under the archway into the park.

She hesitated for only a moment, and then, gulping down the fear that had come up like a hard lump into her throat, she turned Periwinkle away from the longed-for sight of the sea and rode hard for the hollow beyond the pines.

The sides of it were so steep and stony, and so thickly grown with gorse, that she had to dismount and, leaving Periwinkle beneath the pine trees, climb down by herself.

They reached the top of the hollow and there was Periwinkle still waiting, with Wiggins.

Within sight of the manor Periwinkle stopped cantering and slipped into a gentle ambling trot, for the danger, it seemed, was left behind now.

She handed Periwinkle over to Digweed, who appeared at this point grinning from ear to ear, and went round into the garden and up the stairs to the front door with Serena in her arms and Wiggins at her heels.

Digweed had spread fresh clean straw on the floor, and ornamented the whip with a scarlet bow, and Periwinkle had a scarlet bow on the top of her head.

Yet Periwinkle went at a good pace and the funny little carriage bumped along very merrily.

But it ended at last and they were out upon Paradise Hill, and Periwinkle stopped of her own accord that Miss Heliotrope and Maria might look about them.

She permitted herself to be settled comfortably in the pony carriage with her book of essays, Wiggins in attendance and Periwinkle peacefully cropping the sweet turf.