creeping plant

Example Sentences

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Nothing was too insignificant for Frigg to ask, save only the mistletoe, a creeping plant that lives on other trees.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

In her heart there grew The bitter creeping plant of discontent, The plant that only grows in prison soil, Whose root is hunger and whose fruit is pain.

From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry

Red nightshade berries—not the deadly nightshade, but the ‘bitter-sweet’—hang sullenly among the bushes where this creeping plant has trailed over them.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

There was in my sister Honora's garden a pretty creeping plant, new at that time, covered with little trumpet-like flowers.

From Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Finck, Henry Theophilus

Then, as she looked about the little clearing where the accident had taken place she saw, dangling from a tree, a long vine of some creeping plant.

From The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms Or Lost in the Wilds of Florida by Hope, Laura Lee