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  • Bar_gun_dy rosebushes, with red "pinies" and livid hydrangeas, or now and then a mat of stonecrop and "voilets" along the posy-bed that edged cabbage and potato-plots, while, without the fence, Bouncing-Bets adorned the road-side, or blue sea-pinks from the pasture-lot strayed beyond its rails.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various

  • Also, crafty questioning had elicited the fact that "pinies" were

    Just Patty 1911

  • Two splendid groups of fringed "pinies," the pride of Miss Avilda's heart, grew just inside the gate, and hard by the handsomest dahlias in the village, quilled beauties like carved rosettes of gold and coral and ivory.

    Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • But her people thought heaps of her, and spent much money on the biggest tombstone in the cemetery, and planted pinies and purple phlox on her, and went every Sunday to visit her.

    Laddie: A True Blue Story 1913

  • "Well, if I don't git round this fall an 'feed up them pinies I sha'n't have a wink o' sleep all winter."

    Country Neighbors Alice Brown 1902

  • "They'd ought to put some muck on them pinies last fall," said he, in a soft voice which his gnarled aspect had not foretold.

    Country Neighbors Alice Brown 1902

  • "Fush on the pinies!" said Mrs. Marshall heartily.

    Country Neighbors Alice Brown 1902

  • Husband never got over talkin 'about their pinies.

    Country Neighbors Alice Brown 1902

  • I remember I gave her some roots of pinies and iris out of our yard, and she gave me a new kind of lilac bush -- pink, it is, and sweet!

    An Alabaster Box Florence Morse Kingsley 1898

  • My Philena, her cheeks was just like yours, like two pinies.

    Hildegarde's Neighbors Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

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