Harvard's ivied buildings. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : ivied walls. From Dictionary.com.
A few persons were afoot among the ivied buildings. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
The car waited for him under the ivied porte cochere while he went in. From Wordnik.com. [In Other Worlds]
This huge stone house, with its ivied walls, was always a mystery to us. From Wordnik.com. [Cider With Rosie]
"What ever is a noun?" came floating into our ivied windows a dozen times a day. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
As he turned a sharp corner by an ivied tree, a breathless young woman ran into his arms. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven] Reference
English home, with its ivied walls, its turreted roof, its long façade of warm red brick. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
Empires, linesmen, and guards emerge from the ivied clubhouse as if straight from the flagship store. From Wordnik.com. [Love-Loving Wimbledon: Lauren Sozio] Reference
‘What does Miss Darnaway herself, in her ivied tower, think of the business?’ asked Martin Wood dryly. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
Within these ivied walls, behind these old green shutters, some further business smoulders, waiting for its hour. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Portraits] Reference
She followed him as quietly as she could through the darkened house and out the back door to a small, ivied garden. From Wordnik.com. [A Shadow in Summer] Reference
In the thicket, along the slopes near the ivied walls of Hawarth Castle, the companions began to fill their baskets. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Old streets, ivied towers, ancient rooms, become symbols of great and dignified achievements; ceremonies come to be invested with. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
A red-roofed hamlet was on our left, on the right an ivied ruin, close to the water, where some contemplative cattle stood knee-deep. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
The air of the raw frontier so invigorated him that he gave little thought to going back to Boston, to the library and the ivied hall. From Wordnik.com. [Comanche Moon] Reference
The line winds, rather, through meadows and between banks, where wild flowers grow; and under an ivied bridge or two, and by some woods. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
Then he sent a wedding announcement to the happy couple's hometown newspaper, packed up his belongings, and departed the ivied halls of academe. From Wordnik.com. [WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories]
Among those now being promoted to partner in law firms and investment houses, higher proportions than in the past started out at non-ivied institutions. From Wordnik.com. [Downward Mobility] Reference
He had come to love this oasis of plazas, ivied walls, narrow walkways smelling of bricks and books, not the least of the reasons being that Amanda taught here. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
Through the thinning branches they could glimpse the ivied gray wall surrounding Mayor's House and hear the rhythmic roar of waves breaking on the shingle below. From Wordnik.com. [Wizard and Glass]
A not uncommon seal gives us the Ivy with the motto; 'I die where I attach myself;' while yet another of the ivied fallen trees declares that 'Even ruin cannot separate us.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Then trees began along the roadway, first a scattering between structures, then tunnels of dense, overhanging growth — great, straight, ivied trees, passage without exit. From Wordnik.com. [For A Day] Reference
Clara took note of ivied windows and roses in the porch. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
I've often thought that the proper place for my old chimney is ivied old. From Wordnik.com. [I and My Chimney] Reference
Again was silence, the moon above looking calmly down upon the ivied walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Last American] Reference
There was a little wicket-gate there, set in the ivied wall; as Bryce opened it. From Wordnik.com. [The Paradise Mystery] Reference
He saw the slender figure, in its green gown, disappear at a turning of the ivied wall. From Wordnik.com. [Harriet and the Piper] Reference
With his mind's eye he could see that board raised high above the ivied wall which he had built. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
Gramercy Park at its most ivied, are not so aristocratic as the section of Brooklyn called the Heights. From Wordnik.com. [Free Air] Reference
He looked towards its ivied battlements with all the regret and all the tenderness which can overflow a human heart. From Wordnik.com. [Thaddeus of Warsaw] Reference
As the big, turreted, towered, ivied pile of stone and mortar called Catheron Royals, with its great bell booming, its. From Wordnik.com. [A Terrible Secret] Reference
They were both watching from that ivied porch a touching and impressive scene, -- the burial service in the old churchyard. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Many Lands] Reference
The bats, emerging from the ivied ruins they left behind, flitted and skimmed before them, chasing the insects of the night. From Wordnik.com. [Kenelm Chillingly — Complete] Reference
Our path led its beneath one of these precipices several hundred feet sheer down, and with an ivied fragment of ruined wall at the top. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference
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