Away from the broad, beaten route every step of a man's progress represented slashing a trail with the machete through the tangle of bushes, low trees, thorny scrub, and interlaced creepers.

These hedges are festooned with masses of clinging luxuriant creepers, among which sometimes struggles up a custard apple, an avocado pear, or a wild plum-tree.

Epigaea Repens (Creeping Laurel).This creeper is hardy and evergreen, and its flowers possess a delicious fragrance.

Bring your basket, and you shall gather moss while I dig up my creeper.

"Scotty" finally halted them, and with the greatest difficulty succeeded in fastening spiked "creepers" to his mukluks.

The princess took my hand, and cautiously feeling the creepers and plants under our feet, we slipped and crept down the hidden path.

Therefore with his brother the hero set out on the quest, and duly found the creeper.

She must be somewhere in the neighbourhood of this arbour of overhanging creepers enclosed by plantations of cane; [Looking down.] For at the entrance here I plainly see A line of footsteps printed in the sand.

Now all deficiencies had been made good by a cunning hand that had allowed no glaring newness to be visible; a hand that had matched old tiles, and patched old walls, and planted creepers, and restored an almost magical order and comfort to Peter's beautiful old house.

Oh! don’t you remember the creepers, Sam Holt, That scattered their fragrance around?

But what shall I say of the great spreading walnut whose branches hang right across the stream in our garden in the Cotswold Valley? About the middle of May the walnut leaves resemble nothing so much as a mass of Virginia creeper when it is at its best in September.

Round the palm-stems, round the creepers, Flashed a feathered jewel past, Ruby-crested, topaz-throated, Plucked the cocorite bast, Plucked the fallen ceiba-cotton, {333} Whirred away to build his nest, Hung at last, with happy humming, Round some flower he fancied best.

From these hung down great masses of trailing vines and spreading creepers like long, lean, hairy arms stretched out to bar their way.

But from the tomb of the dead minstrel there soon sprang a creeper, which, finding its way along the walls, descended into Iseult's grave.

But what a scenea labyrinth of narrow creeks, so narrow that a canoe could not pass up, haunted with alligators and boa-constrictors, parrots and white herons, amid an inextricable confusion of vegetable mud, roots of the alder-like mangroves, and tangled creepers hanging from tree to tree; and overhead huge fan-palms, delighting in the moisture, mingled with still huger broad-leaved trees in every stage of decay.

But when it is an almost universal habit, coming down from generation to generation, throwing its creepers and clingers around the social customs and industrial economies of a great nation, it is almost like re-creating a world to change that second nature thus strengthened.

Over these I toiled with my bundle slung over my shoulder, plodding heavily through the loose sand, and tripping over the creepers, but forgetting my wet clothes and my numb hands as I recalled the many hardships and adventures which my ancestors had undergone.

Now, I've tried to rig my trap up so it'll simply make a prisoner o' the creeper.

My courage was freshened, and, taking a slow trot jumping from stones to the hard sand, dodging over-hanging branches, and scrambling up on the banks to avoid creepers, I covered a great deal of ground in a short time.

We wore Appalachian Mountain Club snow-creepers, or crampons, heavy Scotch mittens, knit woolen helmets, dark blue snow-glasses, and very heavy clothing.