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

So she returned to her father in heaven and reported her fruitless search; and at last he gave her some earth and a creeping plant.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir

"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

I was told that this is made out of another creeping plant, and is left in its own natural unstained colour, which, however, in this case is a dull brown red.

From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Williamson, Robert Wood

In his right hand was twisted the end of a long rope made of some sort of creeping plant, by which he led a huge and hideous reptile, somewhat resembling the Plesiosaurus.

From The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria by Scott-Elliot, W.