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Example sentences for "woodbine"

Lexicographically close words:
wont; wonte; wonted; woo; wood; woodbines; woodbox; woodcarver; woodchopper; woodchoppers
  1. But those who wear the woodbine on their brow, Were knights of love, who never broke their vow; Firm to their plighted faith, and ever free From fears and fickle chance, and jealousy.

  2. The lords and ladies, who the woodbine bear, As true as Tristram and Isotta were.

  3. A species of woodbine had formed a complete mantle over the branches of the fallen tree, almost impervious to the rain or the rays of the sun.

  4. I now took my knife, determining to cut away the woodbine and break the twigs in the gentlest manner possible, till I could get a view of his head.

  5. And he moved with their brisk, perky quickness and he alternated between shag in a bull-dog pipe and Woodbine cigarettes.

  6. Trent produced a Woodbine and lighted it luxuriously.

  7. XL ‘And wha’s ta’en down the bush o’ woodbine That hangs atween her bower and mine?

  8. Not a pine in the grove is there seen, But with tendrils of woodbine is bound; Not a beech's more beautiful green, But a sweetbrier entwines it around.

  9. Aft hae I roved by bonnie Doon, To see the rose and woodbine twine; And ilka bird sang o' its luve, And fondly sae did I o' mine.

  10. Fowle as a thermometer manufacturer on Woodbine Street, "house near.

  11. His home, "Tanglewood," was on Woodbine Street and perhaps the thermometer business was operating in one of the outbuildings.

  12. Over the wall from the highway was a fringe of young trees and bushes, and here and there the wall itself was covered by a mass of blossoming woodbine that filled all the warm air far and near with its sweet summer odor.

  13. So get thee upon the wall, David, and hide beneath the woodbine so as to keep watch.

  14. Unlike many of the old southern homes, Woodbine had always been kept in perfect repair, and by some miracle of good fortune, had escaped the ravages of the Civil War.

  15. Lord bless my soul, are you counting on moving the whole of Woodbine up yonder?

  16. Consequently his resignation "just broke up the whole outfit," as Athol put it, and both children vowed they wouldn't have anybody else at Woodbine because nobody else could ever be half so nice as Norman Lee.

  17. When it ended in a lost cause he returned to Woodbine to learn in what condition the home he so loved had come through the conflict, for it was situated in the very vortex of the disturbance.

  18. Please, please take me home to dear old Woodbine and mother and Uncle Athol and Mammy Riah and Athol and--and everybody I love.

  19. Athol soon had Woodbine on the wire and then ensued a funny, one-sided conversation.

  20. You've got to pull out for Woodbine and Uncle Abel somehow.

  21. They were to leave Woodbine and Uplands on the last day of September, as the school term began October first, the intervening days being full of the excitement incident to their departure.

  22. None of these buildings touched directly upon the main house, but were connected with it by a roofed-over colonnade upon which the woodbine ran riot, as it did upon all the detached buildings, producing an effect charming beyond description.

  23. This little conversation between the new tenant of Woodbine Cottage and his housekeeper occurred on the very evening on which Major Vernon took possession of his new abode.

  24. Here Mr. Carter was informed that the key of "Woodbine Cottage had been given up on the evening of that very day on which he had seen Joseph Wilmot sitting in the little parlour.

  25. I am leasehold proprietor of Woodbine Cottage, near Lisford and Shorncliffe.

  26. There was very little light in the room, for the only window looked into a miniature conservatory, where there were all manner of prickly and spiky plants of the cactus kind, which had been the delight of the late owner of Woodbine Cottage.

  27. The dim morning light was grey in the sky before she met any one whom she could ask to direct her to Woodbine Cottage; but at last a man came out of a farmyard with a couple of milk-pails, and directed her to the Lisford Road.

  28. Nothing could have better pleased the new inhabitant of Woodbine Cottage, who was speedily on excellent terms with his housekeeper.

  29. In less than a quarter of an hour after leaving the gate of Maudesley Park, the fly came to a stand-still before Woodbine Cottage.

  30. He went straight to Mr. Grogson, the auctioneer, and from that gentleman heard all particulars respecting the pending sale at Woodbine Cottage.

  31. One day, now three months after Edward Morton's departure, Miss Jerusha Simpkins was seen threading her way to Woodbine Cottage.

  32. The scarlet banner of the woodbine fluttered from many a tree like a bloody omen, the ash was clad in purple robes, the elm and linden trees were like yellow flames among the bright red fires of gum and dogwood.

  33. Out where the land was broken by ravines and the woodbine hung its long green ladders from the ironwood tree or made pillars of Corinthian design of the gleaming sycamores which stood along the banks of a stream, two boys were fishing.

  34. Woodbine is everywhere--climbing over the garden seat under the sycamore tree, whose leaves are spotted sometimes with tiny reddish dots, the honey-dew.

  35. Woodbine coils round the tall straight poles, and wild hops, whose bloom emit a pleasant smell if crushed in the fingers.

  36. It is on the stalk of the woodbine which climbs up the hawthorn, and is the first in the new year--in the very darkest and blackest days--to show that life is stirring.

  37. Sometimes they would work on the side porch where the clematis and woodbine shaded them from the hot sun.

  38. Aft hae I roved by bonnie Doon, To see the woodbine twine; And ilka bird sang o' its luve, And sae did I o' mine.

  39. Woodbine Cottage was just a gem of a place.

  40. If the woodbine droops, laden with the dew drops of the morning, when the sun has exhaled them, will it not be refreshed, and yield richer fragrance?

  41. All round the arbour the luxuriant grapes hung in clusters, and the woodbine and jessamine stole up between them.

  42. He then planted round it the woodbine and jessamine, and inclosed the whole with a fence of blushing roses.

  43. It is a fine plant, and its flower is not unlike the woodbine or honeysuckle, but devoid of all fragrance.

  44. The korna is allowed to twine itself over the roofs, as the woodbine over our cottages, and looks very pretty.

  45. She had put on her daintiest frock, white, of course, since her father liked her to wear no other sort of dress; and she had twisted sprays of scarlet woodbine through her dark hair and about her shoulders.

  46. Along the sides, seasoning at convenient intervals, were rows of felled timber, gay with a summer's growth of woodbine and clematis, now ripened to scarlet and silvery white.

  47. We haven't been out Woodbine way all summer.

  48. In the crannies of the bark, fringed with grey-green tongues of fern, woodbine and briar and slim mountain-ash have found anchorage.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "woodbine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.