twined

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Twined throughout the district are the tendrils of the Forster family, spoiled and queer from intermarriage and frustration.

From Time Magazine Archive

And shouldst thou learn, sweet, to return My love, nor deem it folly, Twined in thy hair the snow fruit wear, And on thy breast the holly.

From Cap and Gown A Treasury of College Verse by Knowles, Frederic Lawrence

Twined about his tunic of purple stuff, in the manner of a cincture, was an iridescent Serpent with lifted head and eyes like embers turned sleepily towards him.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles

Beware, beware the words Brewed in the moonshine under ancient oaks White with pale banners of the mistletoe Twined round them in their slow and stately death.

From The Book of Hallowe'en by Kelley, Ruth Edna

Twined fabric from a piece of clay, Arkansas 42 21.

From Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46 by Holmes, William Henry