From this place the eye follows the Water Gap to where mountains shut in one behind another, like the teeth of a saw, and between them the Delaware twines out of sight.
She twines around each kindred heart, While this dread truth their bosoms fill, That they with her must shortly part.
No brighter chain this earth can boast, Than twines 'round kindred hearts; Brilliant and fair the links remain, Though fate rends them apart.
Each minute blows the Rose and Jesamine, And twines with new-born Eglantine, Each minute new Discoveries bring; Of something sweet, of something ravishing.
The hop twines round the pole in the direction of the sun, and-- "The sunflower turns on her god when he sets, The same look that she turned when he rose.
Untwirling the twine that untwisteth between, He twirls, with the twister, the two in a twine; Then twice having twisted the twinesof the twine, He twisteth the twine he had twined in twain.
I hallow my heart if its love twines round His heart.
Untwirling the twine that untwisteth between, He twirls, with the twister, the two in a twine: Then twice having twisted the twines of the twine He twisteth the twine he had twined in twain.
The wild convolvulus, with its great white bell-like blossoms, that so often stars the hedgerows with a singular beauty, twines always to meet the sun.
And Atrides glories there In the prize he won in fight, And around her body fair Twines his arms with fond delight.
Brilliantly twines the golden flax round the swift-whirling spindles, Through the strings of the yarn whizzes the shuttle away.
And the voice said, 'Quick, seize it, and draw it out, and tie it to my feet by the twines of red silk about it.
Then he took the warm living heart while it yet leapt and quivered and sobbed; and he held it with a trembling hand, and tied it by the red twines of silk about it to her feet, staining their whiteness.
My other variegated Abutilons are of trailing habit; Mesopotamicum is very graceful, one droops over the side, and climbs and twines around the cords of a large hanging-pot, for which it is admirably adapted.
It grows in the mountains, and twines about the bushes, sometimes going up eight and ten feet.
And round the rocks crept flowered vines, And clomb the trees that towered high -- The type of a lofty thought that twines Around a truth -- to touch the sky.
As the vine that clings to the oak that falls; As the ivy twines round the crumbled walls; For the dust of the past some hearts higher prize Than the stars that flash out from the future's bright skies.
When a shoot stands near an upright stick, it twines regularly and spirally round it.
The movement is in the usual direction, namely, in opposition to the course of the sun; and when the stem twines round a thin stick, it becomes twisted on its own axis in the same direction.
This species is closely allied to the last, and behaves in the same manner; but perhaps twines rather better round a vertical stick.
When the stem twines round a somewhat thick stick, a slight degree of sensitiveness possessed by the petioles is brought into play, and the whole leaf together with the tendril winds round it.
Another plant in the same family, the Scyphanthus elegans, habituallytwines in this same manner.
The stem twines indifferently to the right or left.
Polygonum convolvulus twines only during the middle of the summer (Palm, p.
The tendrils are thus brought into action, if the stem twines round a thin vertical stick; and in this respect the present species differs from the last.
Round the white circlet in relievo bold 180 A Serpent twines his scaly length in gold; And brightly pencil'd on the enamel'd sphere Live the fair trophies of the passing year.
As round his shrine the gaudy circles bow, 480 And seal with muttering lips the faithless vow, Licentious Hymen joins their mingled hands, And loosely twines the meretricious bands.
And loudly he exulted at the field's far distant end: "Midsummer Day Brings us laughter and play; But later know I little, if she twines her wreath so gay!
Midsummer Day Brings us laughter and play; But later know I little, if shetwines her wreath so gay!
And all the little birds sang right merrily their lay: "Midsummer Day Brings us laughter and play; But later know I little, if she twines her wreath so gay!
So speaking, he twines green bay about his brows, and proclaims Acestes conqueror first before them all.
But mine polluted are; Sin twines itself about my praise, And slides into my prayer.
Let Baal rule alone in Babylon and through all the land of Shinar; while Assarac, the interpreter of his will to the people, twines the sacred lotus round the royal sceptre, he needs but stretch out his hand to take.
As the serpent of Ashtaroth twinesround a man's heart!
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