141 Verbs to Use for the Word vine

At the back grows a strange vine.

"In my seventeenth book," objected Nonnus, "Bacchus plants vines in India, and the superiority of wine to milk is convincingly demonstrated.

It was curious to note the method of training the vines up the various trees by the roadside.

Our people burn their tobacco-seed and cut down their vines, rather than endure her tax.

The present inhabitants of that island make a small quantity of excellent wine for their own use and are liberal of it to strangers who travel that way, but dare not, being under Turkish government, cultivate the vines well, or export the product of them. {81a} In the same manner as Gulliver's island of Laputa.

The country being now cleared of all enemies, we rambled through it, and from that time remained without fear, used what exercise we pleased, went a- hunting, pruned our vines, gathered our fruit, and lived, in short, in every respect like men put together in a large prison, which there was no escaping from, but where they enjoy everything they can wish for in ease and freedom; such was our way of life for a year and eight months.

To the right, as one passes this curious formation, is a steep wall of stratified stone, draped with clinging vines, and overgrown with evergreens.

"Oh, they're a mile or two off, and even if they could see the biggest of fires I'd defy them to get half way here if they took the whole night to cut their way through that mass of trailing vines and brush.

At one time a footpath probably ran near the river, where the Indians, by crawling along the face of the cliff and sometimes swinging from one ledge to another on hanging vines, were able to make their way to any of the alluvial terraces down the valley.

Return, we beseech Thee, and visit this vine of Thy planting!"

Among them stood a slender girl in a checked gingham, tying vines to a trellis.

"Do you see those streamers of loveliness waving welcome to you, fair damselNature knows its kind?" "That's one word for me and one for yourself," she cried, seizing the dainty pink sprays that now trailed over her head and shoulders as the boat glided along the fringe of hushes supporting the clinging vines.

porch trellis-work, and clambering vines, and even on the flags before the door, worn by the feet of children and slow grandfathers.

Domitian passed an edict for destroying all the vines, and that no more should be planted throughout the greatest part of the west; which continued almost two hundred years afterwards, when the emperour Probus employed his soldiers in planting vines in Europe, in the same manner as Hannibal had formerly employed his troops in planting olive trees in Africa.

Similarly, too, the vine foretells prosperity, "for which," says a dream interpreter, "we have the example of Astyages, king of the Medes, who dreamed that his daughter brought forth a vine, which was a prognostic of the grandeur, riches, and felicity of the great Cyrus, who was born of her after this dream.

"Happy I must contrive that they shall be," she thought, "for unhappiness and discontent are among the foxes that spoil the vines.

The staples had been used to hold up a vine.

Then she leaned back on her pillows and began breaking the partridge-berry vines into short bits, each with a scarlet berry on it.

Around, above her spreads a flowering vine, And o'er a ruby fountain almandine.

I have found vines and grapes.

How swiftly pass the happy hours Beside thy palms, beneath thy pines, As through the fountain's crystal showers I watch the sunlight gild thy vines Against the snow-peaks' silvered lines!

By a happy distribution, those provinces which do not bear the vine, are abundantly supplied with other productions.

We turned off the road to please the boys, to a brook with a sandy beach, where all three fell to digging wells, and I fell to collecting wild grape-vine and roots for my rustic work, and fell into the brook besides.

"I'll speak in the earth to the palsied root, That under your reign was sleeping; I'll teach it the way in the dark to shoot, And draw out the vine to creeping.

In the midst of all his other employments which did not require thought, Hans' mind would be occupied with this new knowledge; and as he worked in the garden, or weeded and dressed the vines in their little vineyard, the remembrance of the stories Uncle Gottlieb had read to him or told him, would come into his mind, and the pictures he had shown him appear as it were before his eyes.

141 Verbs to Use for the Word  vine