trellis
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- The Catawbas on a large trellis, trained in stories with upright canes, excited her admiration, and she assured us that she had ânever seen nor eaten anybody's grapes with such delight.â — Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly
- Then she dropped on the ground and asked for its name and pointed to the pump and the trellis, and suddenly turning round she asked for my name. — The Story of My Life
- There are a great many fountains inclosed by thickets of shrubs, and cool alleys which lead to arbours of trellis-work, festooned with nasturtiums and convolvuluses. — Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents
- When Mother came in and said prayers with him, and he lay there safely fenced in by the tall trellis-work, each bar of which, with its little outward bend in the middle, his fingers knew so well, it was impossible to fall out through them. — Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
- Even when I lay in my bed, shut in on all four sides by its trellis-work, the dread of the police was upon me still. — Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
- Before I could speak again we were interrupted by a woman who came in through the vine-trellis, from the street. — Madam Will You Talk
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Beyond the trellis was a small, lonely garden; beyond the garden was a large, vague, woody space, where a few piles of old timber were disposed, and which he afterwards learned to be a relic of the shipbuilding era described to him by Doctor Prance; and still beyond this again was the charming lake-like estuary he had already admired.
— The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) -
Just there climbing over, and falling over a trellis was a trumpet vine.
— The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. - âIf the vine,â this letter fancifully said, âwhose strength and beauty is to lean upon the trellis-work, and half conceal its clusters, thinks to assume the independence and the overshadowing nature of the elm, it will not only cease to bear fruit, but will fall in shame and dishonor into the dust.â — The Grimke Sisters
- The hoods and jesses were ready, very prettily adorned with red morocco leather and gold thread; the mews were ready too, with partitions in trellis-work of my own making, â” everything was ready except the peregrines! — Philip Gilbert Hamerton