| 单词 | Virginia creeper |
| 例句 | Limefield House was the color of warm honey, and half of its front was covered in Virginia creeper. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The scrap of song came from a woman’s throat, and Joe thrashed and beat his way up the incline and through the hedge, a tangle of muscadine vines, Virginia creeper and hibiscus rusty with age. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The Abbey building was covered across its south face by that type of ivy known as Virginia creeper. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Mr. Chris seemed to be thinking about them, too, for he said, “The Virginia creepers seem to like the whole family at home at once, like us. Little ones and big ones, all together.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z From a central gazebo, barely visible under Virginia creeper vines, eight archways covered in roses radiate like spokes on a wheel. Public Gardens Turn on the Charm 2011-06-17T01:45:45Z It was crammed with machinery, the Virginia creeper was growing through it, the garden was a mess. Director Lucy Bailey: Thinking small 2011-02-15T14:43:22Z Off-trail, the views are densely wooded in every direction, tangled in Virginia creeper and prickly greenbrier. The spirits of Shenandoah National Park 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Over time, artwork spread across the walls of the studio, the stairwell and even the bathroom like a Virginia creeper vine. A Chinatown Loft Party in the Spirit of Warhol’s Factory 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z He also trained four varieties of vines, among them Virginia creeper and wisteria, to a bulkhead that houses building services, creating a vertical garden. Manhattan Penthouse - Modern Decor Inspiration 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z The Virginia creeper sphinx moth looks like a delta-winged aircraft, camouflaged for action. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z "Sassafras, sumac, and Virginia creeper are some of the earliest to change, beginning in mid-September. By late September, black gum, bittersweet, and dogwood are turning," the Missouri Department of Conservation says. Fall foliage forecast: Track colorful leaves across the US 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Native to North America, they also eat small berries from our native plants such as Virginia creeper. An Avian Murder Case on a Quiet Back Porch 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z But as tobacco farms and textile mills steadily disappeared, hollowing out rural counties, the suburbs stretching southward from Washington spread out like Virginia creeper, fed by culturally liberal college graduates from all over the world. In Rural Virginia, a Militia Tries to Recruit a New Ally: The County Government 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Green Virginia creeper vines and Taxus hedges lined porches. New York Today: The Greenest Block in Brooklyn 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Virginia creeper clads the concrete walls, turning them vivid red in autumn. A look at Dale and Leslie Chihuly’s minimalist garden 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Nourished by freshwater bogs, a carpet of poison ivy, Virginia creeper and prickly cat-brier helps anchor the trees’ roots in the sand. Amid a Sunken Forest, Fire Island Reveals its Wild Side 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Farther down the parkway, in Floyd County, he took visitors into the woods to an African-American cemetery that has been completely overtaken by tulip poplars, poison ivy and Virginia creeper. Volunteers help maintain Va. parkway cemeteries 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z He also liked young Andrew, and on finding that young Andrew wished to cultivate the True Vine instead of the Virginia creeper, he promised him his help and his patronage. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z She was looking out of the window at the sordid little Bermondsey houses, where the red buds of the Virginia creeper were already waking to their green summer life-work. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z The girls had trained the rampant Virginia creeper away from the windows and had coaxed it to climb the porch pillars. Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z At the same time, species like poison ivy, Virginia creeper, sassafras and dogwoods offer an abundance of ripe fruit ready for dispersal. City Room: Autumn Unfolds: Enticements for Migrating Birds 2011-10-21T15:52:32Z At the end of the lane, the vista broadened into an ample sweep of lawn surrounding a red brick house with white columns and low wings half hidden in Virginia creeper. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z Over the porch of Eagle House there hung a Virginia creeper, already touched with the first rusty crimson of autumn, and to the boy's wild imagination it was a stain of blood. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z The ivy kept it green through all the year; the porch was embowered in honeysuckle, clematis, passion-flower, and Virginia creeper. Harriet Martineau 2011-08-05T02:00:51.493Z And it was, perhaps, the most modest: two outdoor “rooms” bounded by slim planters, from which honeysuckle, Virginia creepers and trumpet vines erupted. In the Garden: On City Rooftops, Scrappy Green Spaces in Bloom 2011-06-23T04:20:02Z This resulted in each family of prominence having its own burial plot about sixty feet square hedged about by a wall of cut stone and overgrown with ivy or Virginia creeper. Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant 2011-03-28T02:00:27.040Z The Virginia creeper and the clematis have laid aside their purple and crimson ardours; and in their place a wistaria is hanging the pale droop of its long clusters. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z You get to it by Maple Lane, a little winding road that runs between trees caught together with wild grape and Virginia creeper. The Girl at Central 2011-03-08T03:00:37.413Z He parked his car and knelt by a tangle of poison ivy intertwined with other vines -- Japanese honeysuckle and Virginia creeper -- growing alongside a field of corn. Increased carbon in atmosphere may explain bumper crop of poison ivy 2010-08-31T04:00:00Z There sat Madam Breeze on the Virginia creeper above him, smiling good-humoredly, and shaking the vine gently. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies The Virginia creeper, trailing over its end, waved to and fro with a sound like a sigh. The Valiants of Virginia Between their tendrils, between the branches of the strong tea-rose and the Virginia creeper's autumn fires, one catches friendly glimpses of the church tower and the park, and the gentle deer. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z It boasts a porch, over which a Virginia creeper spreads its amorous leaves; rose-bushes waft a welcome and the sure hope of peace to plowman or golfer after the day's striving. The Gay Adventure A Romance We drove to the south farm, where Ziska pointed again to poison ivy, Japanese honeysuckle and Virginia creeper smothering a fence. Increased carbon in atmosphere may explain bumper crop of poison ivy 2010-08-31T04:00:00Z The old Dutch clock in the hall rang out the hour of four as they entered the chamber window by the Virginia creeper that covered the side of the house. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies The Virginia creeper waved gently to and fro in a soundless breeze that was little more than a whisper. The Valiants of Virginia He had turned toward the club-house, whose windows, in their borders of Virginia creeper and honeysuckle, were blazing with the sun. The Tremendous Event The leaves are variegated, and in shape like the Virginia creeper. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them The tender new shoots of the Virginia creeper were uncurling themselves at the window ledge and feeling their way upward toward freedom—and Nort put his head in among them. Hempfield A Novel But Lawe had taken the alarm, and betook himself and troopers to the Virginia creeper above the parlor window, where they were out of harm's way. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies She led the way through the maze of beds at one side till they reached a hedge laced thickly with Virginia creeper. The Valiants of Virginia There were two terraces, and two short flights of steps to reach it, and a great wide veranda where a Virginia creeper and honeysuckle were burnishing their leaves in the sun. Helen Grant's Schooldays Four girls were together in a pleasant cottage room with a large window, over which fluttered some dry sticks, which would in due time bear clematis and Virginia creeper leaves. Sowing and Sewing A Sexagesima Story Such a lovely house, half covered with purple clematis and Virginia creeper, and a dear little chapel, and beautiful grounds! A Life Sentence A Novel Text also uses "Virginian creeper" instead of the more common "Virginia creeper." Portia or By Passions Rocked There was no breeze and the leaves of the Virginia creeper that curled about the sash were trembling with the sensuous delight of the sunshine. The Valiants of Virginia Here and there was an old well sweep, then a long line of stone wall covered with Virginia creeper or clematis. Helen Grant's Schooldays So, one morning, the cottage windows were open to the Virginia creeper outside them. The House of Fulfilment There, too, is a Virginia creeper, but we do not observe one growing on the Cathedral walls, as described in Edwin Drood. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land Woodbine and hop, clematis and the Virginia creeper half concealed its rugged exterior, and clothed in tangled luxuriance the verandah that extended along the front. The Advocate Near by is a select livery stable and mews of sub-rural aspect, with Virginia creeper climbing over a horse's head in stucco. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography And smaller things in bloom tangled here and there with clematis and Virginia creeper, and a riot of mid-summer bloom. Helen Grant's Schooldays A heavy guilt came over him as he gazed down at the house with its broad porch and trailing Virginia creepers, the Hills would take it very ill to have their invitation ignored. Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp I have here literally translated the botanical name of the Virginia creeper—an appellation too cumbrous for verse. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition Harry flung open the door of the prison, a picturesque little hut built of rough gray stone, and covered with Virginia creepers and wild honeysuckles. Red, White, Blue Socks. Part Second Being the Second Book of the Series It thrives mightily on these gravelled shores, and so do the bignonia vine, the poison ivy, and the Virginia creeper. Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo The window was open and one corner being shaded by the foliage of a Virginia creeper, I could both have a good peep and hear everything. Forbidden Fruit Luscious and exciting story and More forbidden fruit or Master Percy's progress in and beyond the domestic circle I slept in the little room on the second floor off the hall; it was an easy thing to climb out the window, and down by the Virginia creeper to the front garden. Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly "Clear as a whistle!" she exclaimed, peering through the tendrils of a Virginia creeper at the sea of blue ether where fleecy white clouds were floating, driven eastward by the fresh spring wind. Aunt Jane of Kentucky The house is divided from the road by palings richly covered by Virginia creepers, and as they approach Philip pauses to lean on the wicket gate and view the peaceful homestead silently. When the Birds Begin to Sing The number of seeds distributed by crows is enormous, and consists of many species, including poison ivy and poison sumac, wild cherry, dogwood, red cedar, sour gum, and Virginia creeper. Seed Dispersal He found a pretty half-timber house lying back from the road, with a neat semi-circular gravelled path leading to a porch covered thick with Virginia creeper. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol Without moving my feet, I lay my hands on apples, Virginia creeper, asparagus, marigold, sweet sultan, oxalis, plantain, crab-grass, white clover, all growing securely in one place, and everyone like unto itself alone. The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 I have here literally translated the botanical name of the Virginia creeper,—an appellation too cumbrous for verse. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 So she walked down past the summer house where the Virginia creeper was flaunting long scarlet branches in the wind. The Girls at Mount Morris The downy woodpecker, among other things, devours berries of three kinds of dogwood, Virginia creeper, service berry, strawberry, pokeberry, poison ivy, poison sumac, stag-horn sumac, and blue beech. Seed Dispersal It smelt of new-mown grass and lilies, with a sharp little spicy tang of the thick Virginia creepers, which made a shadowy green room of the "piazza." Lady Betty Across the Water “No, no, stoopid! the old red-brick house with the limbs of a vine all over the front of it, and the skeleton of a Virginia creeper on the wall.” Fighting the Flames He found nothing but bedraggled Virginia creeper and more dead leaves. The Servant Problem The two great Virginia creepers which were planted before the crypt hid the glass so that it was not visible from the garden. Debts of Honor I had not noticed before the gateway or the stone wall, on which grew bitter-sweet vines and Virginia creeper. John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein The Master's house, covered with Virginia creeper, stands on one side of the main building. Westminster The Fascination of London Returning through Pottery Lane, we see facing us at the upper end large brick schools covered with Virginia creeper, adjacent to a small brick Gothic church. The Kensington District The Fascination of London Beside him on an unpainted trellis, Virginia creeper rattled in an October wind. The Servant Problem "What sort of a plant is the Virginia creeper?" Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers For the same purpose he especially recommends the planting of the following vines: Virginia creeper, bull-beaver, frost grape, and fox grape. The Bird Study Book She was reaching up for a particularly splendid bunch of Virginia creeper that clung to a branch over her head. Madge Morton's Secret Colwyn tested the strength of the Virginia creeper which grew up the wall almost to the window, and then bent down to examine the grass and earth underneath. The Hand in the Dark Sometimes, as in the grape and Virginia creeper, they are reduced branches, either coiling about the support, or producing little suckers at their tips by which they cling to walls or the trunks of trees. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses "I offer you," by a leaf of Virginia creeper. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference But we are in a perfect duck of a hotel, covered with Virginia creeper, and as close by as can be. Set in Silver The latter is a meadow scene, with a pleasing sky, some graceful trees in the foreground, and a most attractive bit of Virginia creeper dipping into a clear pool. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy "Could not the murderer have climbed up to the bedroom by that creeper?" he asked, pointing to a thin trail of Virginia creeper which stretched up the wall almost as high as the window. The Hand in the Dark Circling up the trunk and the spreading branches of the elm, the Virginia creeper likewise strives for better and greater light. Some Summer Days in Iowa Over the door of the little house a fine Virginia creeper bent and fell in graceful curves, and a cluster of insistent morning-glories clung in summer about its stalwart stock. The Sport of the Gods The bowl was finished at top and bottom with wreaths of Virginia creepers, forest leaves and blossoms. Princess Porch and verandah were covered with Virginia creeper, climbing roses and trumpet honeysuckle. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life The wall is of a soft old brickwork which would scratch and show marks plainly, and the Virginia creeper would break away. The Hand in the Dark Red-stalked clusters of black berries hang from the vines of the Virginia creeper among leaves just touched with the hectic flame that tells of their passing, all too soon. Some Summer Days in Iowa For there, peering round the corner of the window, among the red leaves of the Virginia creeper, was a face—a brown face, with a long nose and a tight mouth and very bright eyes. Five Children and It Here and there in some one of them a Virginia creeper's luxuriant wreaths were colouring with suspicious tokens of crimson. Hills of the Shatemuc Below, there was a series of one-storied tenements, little huckster and fishing-tackle shops, with flat terrace roofs, ornamented with laurel and Virginia creeper. His Masterpiece The Virginia creeper to which Weyling had directed attention that morning had strengthened that belief, in spite of Merrington's opinion that the plant would not bear a man's weight. The Hand in the Dark Next is the Virginia creeper,—see where it flames up the wild cherry tree, scattering crimson leaves to the grass beneath. Some Summer Days in Iowa It was at that moment that Beatrice caught sight of a face framed in with jasmine and Virginia creeper, which looked at her from out of an upper casement window in Mrs. Tester's little lodge. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town "Don't you like to have them?" said he, putting into her fingers another magnificent piece of Virginia creeper. Hills of the Shatemuc The house, with its picturesque English front half hidden by Virginia creeper, stood at the end of a long avenue, in the centre of a broad lawn planted in fine old elms. One Man in His Time Everywhere Madison turned were trellis-work frames for flowers—the walls of the cottage were covered, literally covered, with bare, slumbering shoots of Virginia creeper. The Miracle Man Moss and lichen, ivy and Virginia creeper—this last flaring in crimson glory—clothed the massive stone walls with a gracious mantle of natural beauty. Red Money Virginia creeper and ivy, honeysuckle and jasmine, nearly covered the walls. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town Then another slight maple with the same dead wood-coloured leaves, into which to the very top a Virginia creeper had twined itself, and that was now brilliantly scarlet, magnificent in the last degree. Hills of the Shatemuc "What kind of a plant is the Virginia creeper?" More Toasts The college was built of gray field stone covered with climbing woodbine and Virginia creeper, and it dominated the little town. Kit of Greenacre Farm Luxuriant vines of the Virginia creeper grew on the sides of the house and around the pillars of the porches. That Old-Time Child, Roberta Across the lawn a Virginia creeper draped the house with vivid tints. Ranching for Sylvia Beyond came cedars, in groups, wreathed with bright tawny grape vines and splendid Virginia creepers, now in full glory. Hills of the Shatemuc The poison-ivy and the beautiful Virginia creeper like to clamber up the rough trunk, sometimes clothing the huge tree from foot to top in a mantle of brown feelers and glossy leaves. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Between the slightly overcrowded urns and statues there were bright dashes of color, here of dahlias in full bloom, there of reddening garlands of ampelopsis or Virginia creeper. The Inner Shrine To-day it pleased her to decorate the table with Virginia creeper. The Dangerous Age Over a large whitish heap lay a Virginia creeper, turning a dull crimson. Unhappy Far-Off Things The Virginia creeper, wistaria, honeysuckle, a climbing rose, the clematis and trumpet vine are all most satisfactory. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Wait till you see it shining on the Virginia creeper in our garden quad. Lady Connie Festooning fence and tree around them, the Virginia creeper, or Ampelopsis, shames vermilion against the mass of pines that glooms skyward beyond. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Virginia creeper festooned the hanging lamp; Virginia creeper crept over the cloth. The Dangerous Age For an instant she thought she might have been mistaken, but there was her window with the Virginia creeper under the sill where she had trained it herself. The Captain's Toll-Gate It's to be covered with Virginia creeper and wistaria and all sorts of climbing things. The Rim of the Desert Slipping nearer still, he saw curtains fluttering in the breeze of the August evening, and Virginia creeper dropping in heavily massed garlands from the roof of a columned veranda. The Wild Olive Virginia creepers hang on the walls, and gay flowers fill pretty balconies and peep through sunny little casements. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 He loved not only animals but flowers, and when once a Virginia creeper entered the study window at Warwick Crescent, it was not expelled but trained inside the room. Robert Browning There was," he said, "a crimson Virginia creeper in it—all one bright uniform crimson, in a clear amber sunshine against a white wall. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories The shadows of the Virginia creeper fell on the red pavement, and Kitty's light voice was heard on the staircase. A Mere Accident Virginia creeper has as many fingers as your hand; this ivy has only three leaflets. Ethel Morton's Enterprise About the middle of May the walnut leaves resemble nothing so much as a mass of Virginia creeper when it is at its best in September. A Cotswold Village Up the white walls of the houses clambered a deal of Virginia creeper, brought on by the rain, and now almost scarlet in the strong sunlight. No Hero They sat down on a rustic bench curtained with trails of Virginia creeper, red as the blood of the dying summer. The Port of Adventure For there, peering round the corner of the window, among the red leaves of the Virginia creeper, was a face - a brown face, with a long nose and a tight mouth and very bright eyes. Five Children and It Just at the foot of the hill we came upon 'The Old Drum,' its timbered walls showing white behind the red screen of its Virginia creeper. The Brother of Daphne Then what could look prettier against the white carved stone than the russet and gold leaves of the Virginia creeper? and these they freely use in the decorations. A Cotswold Village There was," he said, "a crimson Virginia creeper in it—all one bright uniform crimson in a clear amber sunshine against a white wall. The Door in the Wall and Other Stories They nestled modestly behind their cottonwoods and Virginia creeper; their occupants had no social pretensions to keep up. The Song of the Lark It was a broad low stucco house, with a Virginia creeper growing over it. Of Human Bondage Eshley noticed its restlessness and promptly flung it some bunches of Virginia creeper leaves as an inducement to continue the sitting. Beasts and Super-Beasts The first crisp maple-leaves began to spin across Miss Hatchard's lawn, and the Virginia creeper on the Memorial splashed the white porch with scarlet. Summer Virginia creeper screen, on an old fence, with wall-flowers and hollyhocks in front. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) At the far end they could see the white pillars of a large stone house gleaming through the Virginia creeper that nearly covered it. The Little Colonel The cab now turned in at a gate and followed a curving drive bordered with trees to a pretty stone house with a porch embowered with Virginia creepers, before which it stopped. What Katy Did Next Nevertheless the timid red, or sickly yellow-grey, brick of the existing houses is pleasingly veiled by ivy and Virginia creeper, while no shop front obtrudes derogatory suggestion of retail trade. The Far Horizon The wild clematis, Virginia creeper, and honeysuckle clothed the trunks of every tree, whilst their roots were hidden by flowers and ferns of various kinds. Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 For covering porches, the standard vine in the North is Virginia creeper. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) Great thick vines of Virginia creepers climb the sides and front of the house. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense The wall, to be sure, was covered with Virginia creeper, which had made its way to the roof, but it was evident that it concealed no opening. The Ghost of Guir House Now only a few Michaelmas daisies withered in the garden, and the Virginia creeper covered one side of the house with a crimson mantle. Esther Waters The posts were in ruins, now, and half fallen down, being covered with Virginia creeper, the leaves of which were now a vivid red, mingled with green. Lost on the Moon Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds Handsomer than the Virginia creeper, and clings closer, but is often injured by winter in exposed places, especially when young; in northern regions, tops should be protected for first year or two. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) Vines, thinly covered with fresh leaves, straggle over the walls,—Virginia creeper, poison ivy, grapevine, and at least one other, the name of which I do not know. A Florida Sketch-Book You will live in a beautiful house, with Virginia creeper growing over it and plum-trees in the garden. Hyacinth And who is that climbing nimbly up the Virginia creeper? The White Feather It was completely clad in ivy; and upon the eastern side there was a dull copper tinge through the matted masses of the Virginia creeper. The Four Canadian Highwaymen or, The Robbers of Markham Swamp The tendency has been towards using the hardy vines, of which the ampelopsis, or Virginia creeper, is one of the most common. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) The roof was made entirely of creepers, Virginia creeper, Caprifolium, and ivy, and it was so thick that not a drop of rain could come through. In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales Dunany, with its court-yard, where wines, climbing roses and Virginia creepers grew luxuriantly over the battlemented walls, reminded me of descriptions I had read of Moorish houses in sunny Spain. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland There are no red maples here, but the Virginia creepers and some of the dogwoods give the red, and the hickories, tulip trees and beeches a brilliant yellow, sometimes almost orange. Letters to His Children When I had dressed I went downstairs to the front door, and sat on the sandstone steps under the arch of the Virginia creeper. Further Chronicles of Avonlea To the left, a little pavilion almost covered with ivy and Virginia creeper. When We Dead Awaken The grapes were being picked; pumpkins hung over the walls; Virginia creeper draped the quaint gray schlosses with crimson cloaks; and everything was as beautiful as a dream of Burne-Jones's. An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay Virginia creeper grows like mad in California and with English ivy and Lady Banksia roses to help out, I was sure I could transform my palace into a perfect bower in almost no time. Cupid's Understudy The Virginia creepers and some of the maple and gum trees are scarlet and crimson. Letters to His Children Virginia creeper and various vines throw down long ropes of green, as if to help their flower friends up the steep walls; thatching their sides with softest beauty. See America First Ladywell said again, walking towards the iron-grey bastion, partly covered with ivy and Virginia creeper, which stood obtruding into the enclosure. The Hand of Ethelberta Barnet’s house on the harbour-road, once so insistently new, had acquired a respectable mellowness, with ivy, Virginia creepers, lichens, damp patches, and even constitutional infirmities of its own like its elder fellows. Wessex Tales From the keeper's cottage in the hollow, where late threads of crimson clung in the brown network of Virginia creeper, rose a mist of wood smoke, dispersed upon the breeze. The Country House It stood immediately behind a lamppost, and I could not but notice that a love-lock of Virginia creeper was trailing almost to the step, and that the bow-window on the ground floor was closely shuttered. A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures The next house was an ornate little cottage with bay-windows, through which could be seen the flower patterns of lace draperies; the Virginia creeper which grew over the house walls was turning crimson in places. The Copy-Cat and Other Stories The fourth wall was clothed in a loose Virginia creeper every leaf of which looked like an insect that could crawl if it wanted to. The Crock of Gold Drinking the waters, taking life easily upon the piazzas of the great hotels festooned with Virginia creepers, and driving to the lake, formed then, as now, the main occupations of the day. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 |
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