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  • News at Eleven: Leaning against the ivy-grown wall

    Archive 2009-12-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • He lived in almost feudal state, his great ivy-grown house and broad lawns surrounded by high stone walls.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Only the ivy-grown stones, the tendril - clasped pillars, with the dark figures brooding between them, met her gaze.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Only the ivy-grown stones, the tendril - clasped pillars, with the dark figures brooding between them, met her gaze.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Catching up his sword from where it lay in a stack of weapons near by, he lifted Olivia lightly from her feet and glided through an opening that gaped in the ivy-grown wall.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Catching up his sword from where it lay in a stack of weapons near by, he lifted Olivia lightly from her feet and glided through an opening that gaped in the ivy-grown wall.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Some, though, harked further back, even to times when forms still more outmoded were enjoying revivals - a rambling ivy-grown bungalow or a peaked roof on two stories of brick, with windows and a chimney.

    Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998

  • The ivy-grown fence surrounding them formed a sort of arbor that would have been pleasant under other conditions.

    Lord of the Isles 1997

  • Only the ivy-grown stones, the tendril-clasped pillars, with the dark figures brooding between them, met her gaze.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • Catching up his sword from where it lay in a stack of weapons near by, he lifted Olivia lightly from her feet and glided through an opening that gaped in the ivy-grown wall.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

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