The lower declivities were covered with aroids and ferns; towards the summit were tendrils and mosses; and here I found a beautiful, new, and peculiarly shaped orchid.
The process simply consists in digging them up or dragging them out of the earth--the latter mode especially where the tendrils lie near the surface, and they will pull up without breaking.
These tendrils are fibrous, and about as thick as a quill.
This morning the birds were engaged for some little time pulling their nests to pieces, strands oftendrils being jerked out and cast away with a contemptuous fling.
The nests, which are composed of tendrils and pliant twigs elaborately intertwined, are domed, and in size somewhat less than a football.
As with the others, a few tendrils are laid across dependent sprays of leaves, engaging and intertwining them.
A considerable quantity of material is lost from each nest, owing to the difficulty of contriving to make initial tendrils engage the leaves and pedicels.
This morning, the flock assembled at break of day, and began, some to extricate tendrils from, others to repair woebegone nests.
Here indeed the fog was much less dense, but the distance was already obliterated, while long, smoke-like tendrils of mist were closing in on every hand.
Though only a few paces away, the figure of her companion was wreathed with tendrils of mist; they were floating round her also; blinding her eyes, catching her breath, sending fresh shivers down her back.
But Miss Asenath dearly loved its bright color, and she was never tired of running her fingers through the ruddy masses and of curling and twisting the little shining tendrils of curls that clustered in the nape of the girl's neck.
Now it came to pass that the ivy loved the oak-tree, and inclining her graceful tendrils where he stood, she crept about his feet and twined herself around his sturdy and knotted trunk.
A spiral, particularly the volutes of the Ionic capital and the corner leaves and tendrils of the Corinthian.
How, once more, can we conceive the peculiar actions of the tendrils of some climbing plants to have been produced by minute modifications?
But the contact of other tendrils of the plant, or of the falling of drops of rain, do not produce these effects.
I positively longed to see some wandering tendrils straying across my niece's brow, if a row of bright wavy locks was impossible for her.
Tendrils of hair, fine as silk, brushed his cheeks and sent strange thrills through him.
The wind and the rain had whipped the color into her soft cheeks, had disarranged a little the crinkly, blue-black hair, wet tendrils of which nestled against her temples.
A gentle wind fretted the loose tendrils of brown hair about her face.
Damp little tendrils of hair clung adorably about her face and neck.
Soft little curls half hid themselves in the shimmer of rich coils she had wreathed upon her head, and adorable little tendrils caressed the lovely flush in her cheeks, and clung to the snow-whiteness of her neck.
Through the gray film of it he caught the soft warm glow of her eyes and the shimmer of gold-brown tendrils of her hair.
The entire structure to which this belonged is a model of elegance, and the large sculptured mass of leaves and tendrils with which it is crowned is especially noteworthy.
This voluntary power seems to be exerted in the circular movement of the tendrils of the vines, and other climbing vegetables; or in the efforts to turn the upper surfaces of their leaves, or their flowers, to the light.
Tendrils which have not laid hold will at length commonly coil spontaneously, in a simple coil, from the free apex downward.
But the tendrils of the Virginia Creeper (Ampelopsis, Fig.
Some tendrils are leaves or parts of leaves, as those of the Pea (Fig.
Leaf-stalks and tendrils are adapted to their uses in climbing by a similar sensitiveness.
The stipules are spines or prickles in Locust and several other Leguminous trees and shrubs; they are tendrils in Smilax or Greenbrier.
Japanese species, effect the object differently, namely, by expanding the tips of the tendrils into a flat disk, with an adhesive face.
Tendrils are still more sensitive to contact or light friction.
Simple tendrilsare such as those of Passion-flowers (Fig.
This is an adaptation for climbing mural rocks or walls, or the trunks of trees, to which ordinary tendrils are unable to cling.
Most tendrilsmake revolving sweeps, like those of twining stems.
Compound or branching tendrils are borne by the Cucumber and Pumpkin, by the Grape-Vine, Virginia Creeper, etc.
Or in a compound leaf, as in the Pea and most Vetches, and in Cobaea, while the lower leaflets serve for foliage, some of the uppermost are developed as tendrils for climbing (Fig.
Lonely and lost, I stretched my wounded tendrils on every side, seeking some branch to cling to; then fell down, and lay in ruins along the ground.
As some wild vine clings around a stately trunk, curling its tendrils about its topmost limbs, as if in one embrace 'twould clasp it all, so did I entwine my heart around thee, taking thy shape!
A curtain of pale green silk fell over the sash-door, and close behind it stood a garden-chair, overhung by the blossoming tendrils of a passion-flower.
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