Wistik nodded, and nimbly scrambled down to the ground; and Johannes looked at the deep shadows and the shining ivy leaves for a long time before he went to bed.
The ivy against the wall glistened in the blue gleam--the dark world below was full of mystery; there were hollows and caves, where the moon lighted up small blue sparks, which made the darkness behind seem deeper still.
He went early, as soon as he was roused by the squabbling of the sparrows in the ivy round his window, and by the twitter and wheeze of the starlings as they fluttered on the roof and wheeled in the early sunshine.
When Johannes went into his little room that evening, as he looked at the moon-shadows of the ivy leaves which stole across the brick floor, he fancied he heard a tap at the window.
After staring for a long time into the marvels of the shadow-world, Johannes discerned the form of a tiny mannikin, close to the window, screened by a large ivy leaf.
Really, I believe Ivy Hall is the loveliest boarding school there is in the world.
So thus armed, a merry eight left Ivy Hall a few moments later and tramped gayly away to the park.
But the first thing she did when Ivy Hall was reached, was to run up to her room, select the prettiest of the three left-over calendars, wrap it daintily in tissue paper and gold cord and address it to her father at Silver Bow.
The ivy which clung affectionately to its outside had grown into several of the windows and lay in decayed brambles inside.
How can you distinguish Poison Ivy from Virginia Creeper?
The poison ivy has a leaf similar to the harmless woodbine, but the leaves are grouped in threes instead of fives.
Demonstrate the way to stop bleeding, remove speck from eye, treat ivy poisoning, bandage a sprained ankle, remove a splinter.
Have you learned to overcome the poison ivy that was once so feared--now so lightly held by those who know?
The mortar of the walls had perished through age, and the ivy had penetrated into the interior of the church in every direction.
From the others there was a cry of wonder and delight, and from Lord Ivy a shriek of incredulous laughter.
Lord Ivy swung the bow about and raced toward the wharf.
In his strangely explosive manner Lord Ivy shouted suddenly: "Phil, you're a silly ass.
Lady Moya exclaimed bitterly, Lord Ivy swore, Kinney in despair uttered a dismal howl and dropped his head in his hands.
The newspapers would regard anything that concerned Lord Ivy as news.
As I slipped my leg over the rail I heard Lord Ivy say: "I'll find Phil and meet you.
My friend thought you and Lord Ivy were crooks, escaping.
The rest of the morning was spent in putting ivy and holly wherever it could be put, especially on the staircase leading up to the museum.
The pickaxe, secured in one of Andrew's unguarded moments, two spades, and a large sack lay hidden in the thick ivy which covered the wall near the garden gate.
She tried to fix her mind on the ivy and the goats instead of looking at Aunt Bella to see whether she were going to be ill.
The ivy house belonged to Mrs. Waugh and Miss Frewin.
There was a pattern of green ivyround the dinner plates and a pattern of goats round the silver napkin rings.
She was excited because they were going to the ivy house for tea.
Illustration: The Poison Ivy] TALE 70 Poison Ivy or the Three-Fingered Demon of the Woods You have been hearing about good fairies and good old Mother Carey and Medicine in the Sky.
Then to trail over the trunks of trees and suck their life, he left the demon vine, the Poison Ivy with its touch of burning fire.
The one thing that looks like it, is the Boston Ivy, but that does not grow in the woods, and the Poison Ivy leaf always has the little bump and bite out on the side of the leaf as you see in the drawing.
The ivy is very abundant about the ruins, and hangs its green curtains quite from top to bottom of some of the windows.
I saw in the outer court an old hawthorn-tree, to which a plant of ivy had married itself, and the ivy trunk and the hawthorn trunk were now absolutely incorporated, and in their close embrace you could not tell which was which.
Cheruel tell us that the French, in suspending Ivyat the door of their cabarets, intend it as a symbol of love.
It has many small sharp spines, and the leaves resemble those of the Ivy with which the Roman Emperors were crowned, thus making the mockery bitterly complete.
Soon the evergreen Laurel alone is green, When Catherine crownes all learned menne; Then Ivy and Holly berries are seen, And Yule clog and wassail come round agen.
Holly stoud in the hall, fayre to behold, Ivy stoud without the dore, she ys ful sore a-cold.
Probably the Bacchanals' chaplet and the Ivy-bough formerly used as the sign of a tavern, both derived their origin from the belief that Ivy in some form counteracted the effects of wine.
This Ivy bears yellow berries, and is common in the Himalayas; it was, therefore, appropriately selected as the shrub wherewith to crown Alexander in his Indian expedition.
The ancient Scottish clan Gordon claim Ivy as their badge.
According to an old poem in the British Museum, however, Ivy was considered by some good people only fit to ornament the porches and outer passages of houses, but not the interior.
In Greece and Rome, Black Ivy was used to decorate the thyrsus of Bacchus in commemoration of his march through India.
That Mr. Sheldrake, through his friend Con Staveley, intends to make Ivy Cottage a profitable speculation is evident.
As it was necessary that the operations should be conducted in secrecy, Ivy Cottage, very soon after its new tenancy, had in it a Blue Beard's room, to which neither Lizzie nor any of her friends had the right of entry.
I'll have all the books and vouchers moved from Ivy Cottage this very week.
Bacchus and his chorus dashed past, wild, unrestrained, crowned with ivy and grapevine, and bearing the cithara and the thyrsus.
The leaves of the ivy had in them a delicate roseate light as of dawn.
As far as the eye could reach were seen heights and valleys where beautiful trees stood in groups; on those trees rose climbing plants, while ivy and grapevines were hanging from the cliff sides.
