As blooms the thorn claspt by the bright woodbine. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses] Reference
If I were him I'd be keeping my head down woodbine. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
Where the woodbine swings, and beneath the trailing. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
And the woodbine its branches of thorns interweaves. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Sae sweetly wove wi 'woodbine flower, on yon burn side. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
Thro 'the woodbine whose fragrance shall cheer me no more. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Old Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '65] Reference
Thro' the woodbine, whose fragrance shall cheer me no more. From Wordnik.com. [The WritingYA Weblog: Poetry Friday: Late, but in the Home Stretch] Reference
And by its side the wild bee humm'd amid the woodbine bower. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827] Reference
A breeze that, sighing, lifts the woodbine leaves, and strays. From Wordnik.com. [Lays from the West] Reference
Sycamore grew by the door, with a woodbine wreathing around it. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Shone through the woodbine-wreaths which round my casement were. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
Oddly, the first thing he noticed was that the woodbine had died. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
The woodbine is good for its fall color, although weedy in growth. From Wordnik.com. [Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916] Reference
He took a sprig of woodbine that was coloured of cream and butter. From Wordnik.com. [The Trespasser] Reference
Curl inward here, sweet woodbine flow'r; — 'Companion of the lonely hour. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Review, 35 (May 1802), 67–75] Reference
See the woodbine that you and she used to twine round my hat and crook, when. From Wordnik.com. [The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale] Reference
I've known companies to go where the woodbine twineth on the third night out. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
How cool was the sitting-room, with the woodbine falling about the open windows!. From Wordnik.com. [Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas] Reference
Tall jars of roses woodbine and "rhoderdeners," as old Jed called them, were everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Shield of Silence] Reference
The roses and woodbine planted around the door by her mother had formed a riotous, twining mat. From Wordnik.com. [The Dressmaker] Reference
The scent of a sprig of wild woodbine holds a charm beyond all the perfumes of the chemist's shop. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference
When the cherries are gone, they visit the sassafras and pepperidge trees, and the woodbine tangles. From Wordnik.com. [Friends and Helpers] Reference
The several varieties of clematis are desirable if combined with the heavier growing grape or woodbine. From Wordnik.com. [Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916] Reference
A winter sunbeam pierced the screen of woodbine, and, for a moment, shed the warmth of springtime on the nest. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Bonny lassie O! O meet me at the shed, bonny lassie O! With the woodbine peeping in, and the roses like thy skin. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
The woodbine seemed the only living thing about it, -- the woodbine that had swung its clusters, heavy as grapes of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861] Reference
Wild grape vines or woodbine draping the wire fences tempt the eye of the passer-by to linger, and they cost nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916] Reference
A little brown house built of logs was almost entirely covered with vines, a tangle of woodbine and honeysuckle and wistaria. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest] Reference
Just like the berry brown is my bonny lassie O! And in the smoky camp lives my bonny lassie O! Where the scented woodbine weaves. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
'Tain't no work; but, land's sakes! there's enough to make up in those wax autumn leaves; I call that a likely spray of woodbine. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
The fairy's feet were resting on a woodbine vine that was creeping up the wall, and her wings were as delicate as those of a butterfly. From Wordnik.com. [Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens] Reference
Christmas Day: gathered a handful of daisies in full bloom: saw a woodbine and dogrose in the woods putting out in full leaf, and a primrose root full of ripe flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Sometimes they would work on the side porch where the clematis and woodbine shaded them from the hot sun. From Wordnik.com. [Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm] Reference
Like so many other forgotten American institutions, the trunk mystery has gone where the woodbine twineth. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
An arbor, bowered with wistarias and the waxen spikes of the new fleur de vie, stood near the woodbine-covered wall edging the cliff. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
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