But I'm sleepy," he caught a frond of a tall Madeiran fern that was placed in its Jardiniere on the step opposite him, winding the satin-green strip over his finger, "honestly, all in with sleepiness, and I'm going to sleep to-night as if it was the last quiet night's sleep I'd ever get.
"From the Car Behind"
Eleanor M. Ingram
The bedding is of home manufacture, the Jardiniere too, is of modelling clay, gaily painted with water colors.
"A Catalogue of Play Equipment"
Jean Lee Hunt
He knows the exact position of each vase: of the big Jardiniere in the first room, the one in the Japanese drawing-room, the two in the domed boudoir, and the two tiny ones in the grey apartment.
"Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings"
Mary F. Sandars