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Updated: August 3, 2024
For their Leaves and Fruit. The grapevine, hop-vine, globe artichoke, tomato, apple, plum, pear, bramble, and strawberry. The melon, vegetable-marrow, pumpkins, and cucumber. For Leafage, Flowers, or Seed Vessels. The acanthus, oak, thistles, teazle, giant hemlock, cow-parsley, buttercup. Of Garden Flowers.
It is so recognizable, even in the rudest attempts at imitation, that its popularity is well deserved. The hop-vine shares some of these qualities, though much less strongly marked in character. The Acanthus. This leaf was first adapted for the purpose of ornament by the workmen of classical Greece. The inspiration was one of the few which they took directly from nature's models.
Because she had been adjured to put on her white apron, Theodosia did not put it on. She advanced to the window, about which grew, with its graceful habit, a hop-vine. A little slanting roof was above the lintel, a mere board or so, with a few warped shingles; but it made a gentle shadow, and Theodosia thought few men besides the one at the gate would have failed to see her there.
All that sea and sky free 'without money and without price'. Let's sit down here in the hop-vine arbour, master. There'll be a moonrise presently. I'm never tired of finding out what a moonrise sheen can be like over that sea. There's a surprise in it every time. Now, master, you're getting your mouth in the proper shape to talk business but don't you do it.
A hop-vine, springing from last year's root, was beginning to clamber over it, but would be long in covering the roof with its green mantle. Three of the seven gables either fronted or looked sideways, with a dark solemnity of aspect, down into the garden.
Before the house was an arbor of green trellis work, reaching quite to the landing-place, destined to support during the summer the hop-vine and honeysuckle under whose shade were arranged the seats and tables of the guests.
Darrell boarded and lodged them, Mr. Darrell coached them in classics and languages. Edith shot up like a hop-vine. Five more little Darrells were added in the fulness of time, and the old problem, that not all the mathematics he knew could ever solve, how to make both ends meet, seemed as knotty as ever. For his daughter he felt it most of all. The five great noisy boys who called Mrs.
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