Here the path came to a sudden stop in front of an impenetrable thicket of lianas which I could hardly cut with my knife.
Under overhanging branches I lie, sheltered from the sun; at my feet the ripples caress the bank; delicate lianas hang from the branches and trail lazily in the water.
Lianas wind in distorted curves through the branches, like giant snakes stiffened while fighting.
The view was wiped out by the mist; dull crashes resounded in the forest, branches cracked and flew whirling through the air, all isolated trees were broken off short, and the lianas tangled and torn.
Our path leads steeply up and down, over loose coral blocks, between ferns and mosses; lianas serve as ropes to help us climb over coral rocks, and with our knives we hew a passage through thorny creepers and thick bush.
Great lianas hung down the walls, and these they climbed to reach the exquisite draperies of the chamber.
Believe me, in order to enter their encampment, I must glide like a snake through the lianas that grow in the forest.
The smallest bent blade of grass was straightened; the lianas and shrubs which they had parted were brought together again, and after this operation was completed, no one could have suspected that human beings had passed that way.
They then wove some mats for sails, lianas of different thicknesses serving as cordage.
They were built of bamboo, fastened together with lianas or sipos, the roofs covered with large palm-leaves.
A log of twenty feet in length having been cut off and placed on the rollers, we secured a number of tough lianas to it, and using them as traces, dragged it down to the river.
The lianas appeared human to us; they lassoed our legs and flung us sprawling upon our faces whenever we tried to quicken our speed.
The trees and lianas became less numerous, and the black rocks came toward us in a sinister manner that conjured up thoughts of a dead something toward which the encircling ridges were guiding us like the arms of a corral.
The snaky, moist lianas made progress next to impossible.
The basalt rocks came closer, showing plainly through the breaks in the lianas that grew less thickly on the higher slopes.
The lianas found it difficult to get a grip upon the rocks, and we could worm our way without much trouble.
The trees immediately near the edge of the bay were covered with riotous lianas that looped themselves like pythons from limb to limb, and from whose green masses blazing red flowers appeared at intervals like watchful eyes.
The footing crumbled; tempting beds of moss and fern slipped away at his clutch; twisting lianas caught his ankles and sent him asprawl.
Creeping convolvuli and others have made use of the slender lianas and hanging air roots as ladders to climb by.
This is fitted with two masts, a rudder, and keel, and has an arched awning or cabin near the stern, made of a framework of tough lianas thatched with palm leaves.
The distance was about half a mile, and the ropes used for drawing the heavy load were tough lianas cut from the surrounding trees.
The jungle has us under its vines and lianas and rot.
As he shoved in a greasy bullet, the earth commenced to rock, trees shook, lianas bent.
The graves had been redecorated with shells; the jungle had been pushed back; lianas had been cut; vines had been ripped down; trees had been trimmed.
Again they rode through cactus country, sandy but free of boulders, the cactus tall and strong, with lianas and vines swinging from the top of one to the top of another, a desolate camouflage, suggesting primordial days.
They soon found a trail and trotted their horses, horses and men swaying to avoid lianas and thorned branches.
Out of the trunk they shaped a log some nineteen feet in length and three feet through, which, with infinite pains and with lianas for ropes, they dragged on rollers to the water's edge.
Hen only nodded his head and took a double turn of the lianas around each arm.
Hibiscus tiliaceus, ipomaeas and fragrant jasmines; and the thickets are bound together in one inextricable mass by lianas of many kinds.
The dense forests also contain many varieties of lianas or rubber vines, huge bombax and bamboos.
There are other flowerings, indeed; but that of the lianas alone has chromatic force enough to change the aspect of a landscape.
Giant lianas droop down over the way in loops and festoons; tapering green cords, which are creepers descending to take root, hang everywhere; and parasites with stems thick as cables coil about the trees like boas.
Giant palms here and there overtop the denser foliage; and queer monster trees rise above the forest-level against the blue,--spreading out huge flat crests from which masses of lianas stream down.
You will grow weary of the grace of the palms, of the gemmy colors of the ever-clouded peaks, of the sight of the high woods made impenetrable by lianasand vines and serpents.
It occupies a more ancient crater, and is very rarely visited: the path leading to it is difficult and dangerous,--a natural ladder of roots and lianas over a series of precipices.
Masses of rubbish increased rapidly, the iron balconies were torn and twisted like lianas in an impassable forest, and very soon a large portion of the wall tumbled down.
He was soon lost to view among the trees, and my only care was, in the midst of the lianas and underwood, to keep the straight path which led to the houses.
In places on the level prairie rose, as if they were oases, groups of cottonwood or alder, so wreathed with wild grapes and lianas that they could not be recognized under the tendrils and leaves.
On the lianas in turn climbed ivy and the prickly, thorny “wachtia,” resembling wild roses.
And even with the naked eye I can make out the palms and the lianas tangled over the verge of what must once have been magnificent gardens!
The work of clearing away the thorns and bushes, the tangled lianas and tall trees, was severe; but it strengthened him and hardened his whip-cord muscles till they ridged his skin like iron.
Could he tie them together by means of the cord-like lianas which bound the jungle so closely together into impenetrable masses?
He was too weary and spent to attempt swimming in that powerful current; he had no means of making a second raft, or helping himself in any way; there were neither bamboos nor lianas on this scrap of land.
Carlos knew the way through the forest, where we ofttimes slipped on the moist roots of the great trees, and scrambled amongst the lianas that were everywhere.
The lianas hung all about; birds glided from limb to limb.
Maybe there's some one of those lianashanging from the trees that he swings out of the water on," offered Robert.
By way of caution I pulled Robert with me off the path to the right; there might be danger in the path; and we crawled through the heavy undergrowth and tangle of lianas to the edge of the forest.
Bechan points to one of the myriad lianas criss-crossing between the trees.
A network of leafy branches of low trees bound together by lianasbars her progress.
In these huge globes there shot out lianas as thin as string, which, creeping over the ground, covered immense distances, forming a thicket so impenetrable that it would be difficult even for mice to penetrate it.
But his joy increased still more when from a lower recess partly hidden by lianas Saba sprang out, holding in his teeth some kind of animal whose head and tail hung from his jaws.
In some places muskcats could be smelt; but there, where from high, overhanging rocks magnificent cascades of lianas fell to the bottom of the ravine, came an intoxicating scent of vanilla.
Caoutchouc lianas just strangled the trees with thousands of serpentine tendrils and transformed them into pyramids, buried with white flowers like snow.
About the greater lianas the smaller entwined and the medley became so thick that it formed a wall through which neither man nor animal could penetrate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lianas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
