One morning in May, 1895, I heard a strange, small, rather shrill song and found that it came from a little brown tree-creeper on an oak just opposite my window.
When they saw her they flew off in a flock to the creeper outside, just where for two or three years there has been a wren's nest.
In was in 1909 that a wren first built there among the stems of the Virginian creeper close to the front door.
The body of the nest was quite hidden between the creeper and the wall, the little entrance-hole alone being visible.
A Black-and-white Creeper had crawled like a Lizard over all the trunks in sight.
Peter Klein took hold of the swinging creeper and did his best to climb.
With great difficulty the poor fellow managed to untie his belt and make fast the end of the creeper around his waist.
Creeper the Black and White Warbler, for that is the name by which he is commonly known.
Downy and Hairy the Woodpeckers, Seep-Seep the Brown Creeper and Yank-Yank the Nuthatch are others.
Creeper continued on up the trunk of the tree, picking here and picking there.
I wonder if he builds it on the ground, the way Creeper does.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back-- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
At least I will look at the thing again," he said, and slid down a creeper to the earth; but Bagheera was before him.
They consist of four short posts ending in forks, on which tie two strong side-poles, with shorter pieces lying across, the whole bound firmly together with creeper stalks.
From now on progress can be made only with the ebb tide and when the flood tide sets in {105} the raft is moored to the bank with a creeper as thick as a man's arm, so that it may not be carried back upstream.
The wall is of a soft old brickwork which would scratch and show marks plainly, and the Virginia creeper would break away.
But, what is far more important, there are no marks on the wall outside, or any disturbance or displacement of the Virginia creeper which covers a portion of the wall, to suggest that the murderer climbed up to the room that way.
The Virginia creeper to which Weyling had directed attention that morning had strengthened that belief, in spite of Merrington's opinion that the plant would not bear a man's weight.
Merrington tested the frail creeper with his great hand.
Virginia creeper which stretched up the wall almost as high as the window.
Colwyn tested the strength of the Virginia creeper which grew up the wall almost to the window, and then bent down to examine the grass and earth underneath.
The man who put those there was clever and cool enough to wrench that creeper off the balcony, as a blind.
He escaped by dropping from the balcony--the creeper at that corner [he points stage Left] has been violently wrenched.
The American black and whitecreeper is Mniotilta varia.
And a secret ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me.
An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me.
I think it is this one, leaning against thecreeper which she has just sprinkled.
She goes to the creeper and looks at it, joyfully.
It is out of season, but the spring-creeper is covered with buds down to the very root.
Here is the spring-creeper that Father Kanva tended with his own hands--just as he did you.
Priyamvada, that is why Shakuntala waters the spring-creeper so lovingly.
Something went snap, and I just flung a few things into a suit-case, dropped it out the window, climbed down the creeper and made a dash for freedom.
Then to the window, and hand over hand down the creeper again and away across the sleeping garden to the woods.
The old creeper down which she had climbed to go to Martin that night which seemed so far away was all in leaf.
Now place him on his feet and make a creeper fast to his hands.
Then they swung him over on to his face and tied his hands behind, making a long creeper fast to the lashing.
The creeper is Tinospora cordifolia (gul bel) and the roots are apparently those of the same climbing shrub.
One of their methods for procuring fish consists in throwing the leaves of a creepercalled in Tamil karungakodi, after rubbing them, into the water.
In the manufacture of the pill, five leaves of a creeper are dried, and ground to powder.
Window boxes are seen everywhere, and Virginia creeper and ampelopsis cover up all bare corners.
Some of the hotels are pretty with verandahs and creeper covered walls, but others are old-fashioned--with low rooms.
Among the latter were wild verbenas of the brightest scarlet, purple begonias, several varieties of fern, wild tobacco plants, and a creeper much like the wild cucumber.
Cut everything like a creeper across them and some day you will find you have cut a snare.
One creeper had climbed up a bennet, or seeding grass-stalk, binding the stalk and a blade of the grass together, and flowering there.
Like a thread the creeper had wound itself round and round the furze, buried in and hidden by the prickles, and it was this creeper that bore the white or cream-florets.
A creeper of bramble fenced round one side of the spurge and white grass bunch, and brown leaves were visible on the surface of the ground through the interstices of the spray.
On gathering it to examine the thick-set florets, if was found that a slender runner orcreeper had been torn up with it.
He screamed once and clutched a stout, hanging creeper and clung there while his cry throttled down to a gasp.
He could only stare at vacancy and dance upon the air and clench the creeper that brought down around him a little snowstorm of flower petals from the quaking branches overhead.
Catching hold of the creeper, that had already been loosened from the trunk, and calling upon the others to assist him, he tore the creeper entirely from the tree, flinging its severed stem far out upon the water.
It was for this reason he had ordered the untwining of the creeper that was clinging above.
We saw a group of them on a branch over the river about forty yards ahead of us, when one of them jumped into the middle of the river and coolly swam to a hanging creeper up which it climbed, none the worse for its voluntary bath.
Before you plant a creeper turn over the soil well, and if it is poor have some good manure forked in.
The shoots of this creeper must be cut back in spring, when frosts are well over, and in hot weather it must be watered.
If we could only have one creeper out of all there are, we would have this Jasmine, which flowers in winter, and is quite hardy.
A creeper should always be allowed to grow as naturally as possible, and not be restrained more than is necessary by nails or by cutting back.
In and out, in and out, and among the bushes where the honey-creeper hung, he went looking for her.
In the narrow forest that ran between the mountains and the sea the air was rich that the scent of the honey-creeper that hung from dark green bushes, and through the velvety grass little streams ran purling down into the sea.
The oak cares not whether the creeper which hangs to it be weak or strong.
But the staff which has to support the creepermust needs have strength of its own.
