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

The builder of houses doeth his work with difficulty; he is exposed to all weathers, and he must cling to the walls which he is building like a creeping plant.

From The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir

The gems that magnify a woman's charm, As flowers the creeping plant, I do not harm.

From The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika by Ryder, Arthur William

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

It is a low creeping plant, with yellow flowers; after they drop off, and the pods begin to form, they bury themselves in the earth, where they come to maturity.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.