That enormous serpents infested her cradle, licking her face and twining around her limbs?

All this while, when no coaxing or care prevailed upon any transplanted slip to grow, one was coming up silently outside the fence near the wicket, coiling so secretly in the rabbit-brush that its presence was never suspected until it flowered delicately along its twining length.

"I, ah,the white flower of twining (clematis), on my body and my hair, and so I sang: "I am the white flower of twining, Little white flower by the river, Oh, flower that twines close by the river; Oh, trembling flower!

"I, ah,the white flower of twining (clematis), on my body and my hair, and so I sang: "I am the white flower of twining, Little white flower by the river, Oh, flower that twines close by the river; Oh, trembling flower!

And now I mind me how he loved the dog; How many an hour he sported in the sun, Twining his grisly neck with summer buds; And how the dog was patient with the boy, Yielding him gently to his little arms There was a lion's heart in the old hound!

The Rev. T. Twining, when at Lichfield in 1797, says:'I visited the famous large old willow-tree, which Johnson, they say, used to kiss when he came to Lichfield.'

Dr. Burney wrote to the Rev. T. Twining on Christmas Day, 1784:'The Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey lay all the blame on Sir John Hawkins for suffering Johnson to be so unworthily interred.

I find the serpent old, That, twining in his speckled breast, About the flowers disguised does fold, With wreaths of fame and interest.

She leaned a little toward him, her fingers twining themselves about one another nervously, as she waited for him to answer.

of tupir, dense, densely twining.

The minister from Venezuela, bubbling with excitement, was pacing forth and back across his office, ruffling his gray-black hair with nervous, twining fingers.

As it is, in flowing off through the valleys to the sea, the united torrents form the greatest river on the globethe Amazon; and the vegetation, stimulated by the heat, and nourished by the abundant and incessant supplies of moisture, becomes so rank, and loads the earth with such an entangled and matted mass of trunks, and stems, and twining wreaths and vines, that man is almost excluded from the scene.

Just now I asked Mr. Twining to let me go a-gunning for this afternoon.

Though I have been much to blame in the present case, yet I think it but just that Mr. Twining should bear his part.

SEA Soft soft wind, from out the sweet south sliding, Waft thy silver cloud webs athwart the summer sea; Thin thin threads of mist on dewy fingers twining Weave a veil of dappled gauze to shade my babe and me.

And twining his arms round Nizza, notwithstanding her shrieks and resistance, he bore her away.

Yet no shady vale can stay him, Nor can flowers, Round his knees all softly twining With their loving eyes detain him; To the plain his course he taketh, Serpent-winding.

The common bind-weed of our hedges may be taken as the representative of this very natural tribe of plants, distinguished by their twining habit, and by the peculiar plaited manner in which the corolla is folded in the bud." "182.

Colman, Twining, Harris, Baretti, Hawkesworth, Reynolds, Barry, were among those who occasionally surrounded the tea-table and supper-tray at her father's modest dwelling.

Then, twining both hands in Ken's collar, he made a frantic effort to break his grip and fling him aside.

The vineshere partly supported by decayed and broken-down trellises, there twining themselves among the branches of the slender saplings which had sprung up among themgrew in wild and unpruned luxuriance, and the few scattered grapes they bore were the undisputed prey of the first comer.

With a rush Mrs. Brenner was on her knees before Munn, clutching him about the legs with twining arms.

He struggled, still dizzy from his fall, bent over and tore at her twining arms, but the more he pulled the tighter she clung, fastening her misshapen fingers in the lacing of his shoes.

Small twigs cluster around the trunk all the way from bottom to top and give the tree the appearance of having a vine twining about it.

This forest covered hundreds of acres, traversed by streams and gullies, and rocky precipices, rendered difficult of passage by fallen trees, thickets, twining vines and briers.