50 examples of ivied in sentences

Early next morning, we rode over to see the quaint town of Upholland, and its fine old church, with the little ivied monastic ruin close by.

In visions wild and sweet Sometimes its courts I greet: Sometimes in joy its shining halls I tread with favored feet; But never my eyes in the light of day Were blest with its ivied walls, Where the marble white and the granite gray Turn gold alike when the sunbeams play, When the soft day dimly falls.

Within these ivied walls, behind these old green shutters, some further business smoulders, waiting for its hour.

Even the little ivied bower, which Mr. Sunderland had arranged with his own hands, when he first smiled upon his beautiful bride, was still in existence; and here did Natalie dream away many a happy hour, during her stay in dear Florence.

the splendid dower That Nature gave to South Tyrol Cannot alone explain thy power To captivate both mind and soul; I love thy sunshine, fruits and flowers, I love thy mountain-peaks sublime, But, best of all, thine agèd towers, The ivied protégés of Time.

Threading its maze of arbors fair Under its saffron bowers, I watch, in the crisp, November air, Through vine-framed openings here and there The ivied walls of castles rare And ruined Roman towers.

The boughs of stately trees are bending o'er him, The scent of calycanthus fills the air, And on the ivied parapet before him Bloom roses fair.

EVENING ON LAKE COMO Beside my garden's ivied wall, Enwreathed in vines of gold and green, I stand, as evening shadows fall, And marvel at the matchless scene, While wavelets make, with rhythmic beat, Perpetual music at my feet.

THE POSTERN GATE I chose me a lovely garden, Beneath whose ivied wall A lake's blue wavelets murmur As evening shadows fall, A garden, whose leafy windows Frame visions of Alpine snow

As we gaze from ivied ramparts On the storied lake below, We forget the world about us For the world of long ago, When the Lombards had descended From the mountains to the plain, And all Italy lay mourning For the thousands of her slain; When their brave, ambitious leader, Not content to make his home By these northern lakes of beauty, Had resolved to capture Rome!

An ivied ruin near at hand, with walls of enormous strength, is said to be the remains of the castle where the final tragedy in "The Hermit of Warkworth" took place.

Well, the next morning we crossed by the ruins of old Greek Phanar across the triple Stamboul-wall, which still showed its deep-ivied portal, and made our way, not without climbing, along the Golden Horn to the foot of the Old Seraglio, where I soon found signs of the railway.

I'll seek some lonely church, or dreary hall, Where fancy paints the glimmering taper blue, Where damps hang mouldering on the ivied wall, And sheeted ghosts drink up the midnight dew: 5 There, leagued with hopeless anguish and despair,

There is something refreshing, and not a little inspiriting, in the scanty relics of those hearty customs and pastimes which imparted such a manly tone to the character of our ancestors; but now, like the ruined castle, or the old ivied abbey, they have become objects of admiration rather than sources of delight.

About one mile before you arrive at Hatton, there is to the left a pleasant view over a well-wooded country, in the midst of which the ivied towers and magnificent battlements of Kenilworth castle present themselves to view.

Such lines as these the young poet addressed to the man who was afterwards to lend interest and immortality to the story of his early loss: "Alfred, I would that you beheld me now, Sitting beneath a mossy, ivied wall On a quaint bench, which to that structure old Winds an accordant curve.

These ruins are all gray and ivied, and it startles one to think what a history Earth has lived through since their foundations were laid!

It was soon passed with its dusky towers, then Stagia looking desolate in its ruined and ivied walls, and following the advice of a peasant, we stopped for the night at the inn of Querciola.

The serpent, whose coiled length under the leaves and flowers entirely surrounds her, thus forming a beautiful allegorical symbol, is watching her decision from an ivied trunk at her side.

A quarter of an hour's walk, part of it by a path through an olive orchard, brought us to the top of a hill, which was surmounted by a square, broken, ivied tower, forming part of a storehouse for the produce of the estate.

"The chimes, the chimes of Mother-land, Of England, green and old; That out from thane and ivied tower A thousand years have tolled!

On the silent hearth, and the ivied tower, Hath it found a last forsaken bower.

And there's never a clock to tell you how the hurrying world goes on In the little ivied steeple down in drowsy Bullington.

Afterward, when it was all over, and Harry had gone, promising to come next day and bring a stake, painted vermilion and white, with a little gilt ball on the top of it, she sat by the ivied window in the brown room with tears in her eyes.

The house stood on a plateau of ground high above Tweed, with a deep shawl of wood behind it and a fringe of plantations on either side; house and pleasure-grounds were enclosed by a high ivied wall on all sidesyou could see little of either until you were within the gates.

50 examples of  ivied  in sentences