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

"He lives, the praise to Allah!" she replied, and with the words she wept more copiously, and turned from him to smell the clustered flowers of a certain creeping plant against the wall.

From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William

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

Creep′er, a creeping plant: a genus of small climbing birds; Creep′-hole, a hole into which to creep: a subterfuge; Creep′ie, a low stool, the old Scotch stool of repentance.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Before it became completely dark, Ahmed collected some long strands of a creeping plant that grew plentifully in the copse.

From Barclay of the Guides by Strang, Herbert