convolvuluses

• “‘That charming woman with the shining bunch of hair and convolvuluses?’”

  The Hand of Ethelberta

• “The light, normally obscured by a curtain of green damask, was in summer further dimmed by the ivy, the scarlet runners, the convolvuluses and the nasturtiums which grew in the window-box.”

  Flush: a biography

• “Magnificent convolvuluses and lilies, rare ferns -- of which I gathered, perhaps, as rare a collection -- amongst them two or three species of tree ferns, great raspberries and gooseberries; and a very arcadia of flowers, lovely objects all for the artist's pencil.”

  In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83

• “He told her about the convolvuluses, and she said he ought to write a book.”

  Balloons

• “They were, in fact, convolvuluses, little pink ones with their tendrils and leaves laid flat to the dry earth by the wayside, and in a water-meadow below the road level big white ones twining among thick-growing osiers and willows.”

  Harding's Luck

• “They paused awhile under some trellis work covered with a profusion of Japanese convolvuluses, pale blue, slate colour, rose-tinted, purple, deep red, with white and coloured bands, a marvellous display of fragile beauty.”

  South Wind

• “Woodroof and anemones grew almost too high; blooming convolvuluses and blackberry-bushes hung in long garlands from tree to tree, where the nightingale sang and the sunbeams were playing: it was very beautiful, but it was no place for girls to go; their clothes would get so torn.”

  The Bell

• “In the window is fixed a deep box full of soil, where are _springing up_ my scarlet runners, nasturtiums, and convolvuluses, although they were disturbed a few days ago by the revolutionary insertion among them of a great ivy root with trailing branches so long and wide that the top tendrils are fastened to Henrietta's window of the higher storey, while the lower ones cover all my panes.”

  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)

• “Let's sit down and look at the garden," said he, pointing to a huge log by the near wall -- "and aren't the convolvuluses beautiful?”

  The Ghost Girl

• “He came over the crest of the Downs at a lurching gallop; down the ragged rut-worn lane, the dusty convolvuluses glimmering up at him in the dusk; past the squat-spired Church in the high Churchyard among the sycamores; down the rough and twisted Highstreet of Newhaven in the chill of that August evening, as no man had ever come before.”

  The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea

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