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

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.

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

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