Bookboxed – the clematis is one of the stars of the garden, it’s true. From Wordnik.com. [Late Spring « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
That clematis is a beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Late Spring « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
And your clematis is a perfect show. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Salem] Reference
Nature has a place for the wild clematis as well as for the cabbage. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Virgin's bower clematis -- and such sunshine as falls not elsewhere in. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
A wild clematis is planted beside each rose and fills the top of the arch. 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
Still other tendrils, as those of the sweet-pea and clematis, are parts of the leaf. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
Mary twined a beautiful wreath of white clematis around the dark tresses of Isabel's hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
The walls were hung with trophies of the woods, branches of scarlet leaves and vines of wild clematis. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Secret] 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
"Come, girls, follow your leader to this bottom, wherever it is, and let us gather clematis while we may.". From Wordnik.com. [A Missionary Twig] Reference
It was when going through a valley, which the country folks called "the bottom," that they saw the clematis. From Wordnik.com. [A Missionary Twig] Reference
In front a piazza and large portico, around which honeysuckle, clematis and roses, shed their sweet perfume. From Wordnik.com. [Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma] Reference
On fine summer days she came to work at the door of his hut, under the shade of a clematis planted by Maurice. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Wild clematis vines from ceiling over table to four corners, and low bowl of wild roses in center beneath sprays. From Wordnik.com. [Entertaining Made Easy] Reference
Virginia creeper, wistaria, honeysuckle, a climbing rose, the clematis and trumpet vine are all most satisfactory. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
Already, however, a few pretty houses, with green lawns in front, peeped out from the bushes of lilac and clematis. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I might, by the way, have remarked of South Harting that the luxuriance of the clematis in its hedges is unsurpassed. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
But nearly every night it whizzed by on the way to town, and Arethusa watched for it in the shadow of the clematis vine. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
Roses drooped in heavy-headed cascades from second-story railings; the wide purple flowers of the clematis climbed aloft. From Wordnik.com. [The California Birthday Book] Reference
Beads of mist fringed the silken fluffs of the clematis, dripping with gentle, rhythmical insistence from the trees overhead. From Wordnik.com. [The California Birthday Book] Reference
Jasmine and clematis oppressed him with their oversweetness; overhead the shining leaves of the magnolia swung with slow grace. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It was separated from the Boulevard de la Madeleine by a green paddock, and was concealed in a nest of laurustinus and clematis. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
In one corner of the living-room an arch of woven wire was erected, and covered with graceful wild clematis vines and wild roses. From Wordnik.com. [Entertaining Made Easy] Reference
The moon was bright as day and the early May dew brought out the fragrance of the jessamine and clematis climbing over the balustrade. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Immigrant] Reference
Upon the table were lying the two purple clematis flowers, backed by a spray of their own foliage and tied with the tendrils of the plant. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
Through the lodge and under the clematis, a few steps bring us to the private railway-station, which in size would do credit to many a town. From Wordnik.com. [The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa] Reference
From above the middle of the table four garlands of wild clematis were looped down to the edge of the round table and held with bows of green tulle. From Wordnik.com. [Entertaining Made Easy] Reference
The paving stones were covered with the needles of pines, with fir boughs, with rose leaves, lily stocks, and with the petals of flock and clematis. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
She rejoiced in the long peaceful mornings spent with her mother on the vine-clad veranda, or in the clematis-wreathed summer house at the end of the garden. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
It was built the year Nan was born, so the roses, the honeysuckle, and the clematis had become of stalwart growth and quite shaded the front and side porches. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
All the flowers were cool and still; the calla breathless and quiet; the pond-lily shut; the roses full of dew and perfume; the clematis languid and luxuriant. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
The front porch of her white cottage was almost obscured by a white cloud of fragrant clematis in full blossom, and the yard was filled with roses and other flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3] Reference
The clematis made a bold show on the porch, though the north wind had begun to detach its clinging embrace from the masonry, and make wild work in its tangled masses. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
His objective point was a rustic arbour hung with rose vines and clematis, where was to be had a view of the river as it made an abrupt turn around the opposite hills. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Red Chimney Being the Love Story of a Candy Man] Reference
The clematis and honeysuckle swung softly in the breeze, making graceful shadows, and the maple trees stretched out long arms and touched each other gently now and then. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Big Front Door] Reference
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