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One showed the other the mass of drifting herbs, which threatened to break the long liane ropes which they were occupied in stretching at that moment.

From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Verne, Jules

Above the Cocorites dangle, amid a dozen different kinds of leaves, festoons of a liane, or of two, for one has purple flowers, the other yellow—Bignonias, Bauhinias—what not? 

From At Last by Kingsley, Charles

Sliding down a liane, he told what he had seen.

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Kingsley, Charles

In passing the liane bridge they never suspected that, beneath that mass of herbs which the current bore onward, there was a little boy who would have exactly served to amuse them.

From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Verne, Jules

Even had I done so, I am not an expert on rubber, and would have understood nothing of Para trees, Lagos silk, and liane.

From The Congo and Coasts of Africa by Davis, Richard Harding