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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An ivy-bush.

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Examples

  • He had a house now at Mortlake on the Thames with a great ivy-tod shadowing door and window, and one night there he shocked and startled a roomful of men by showing that he could be swept beyond our reach in reveries of affection.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • He had a house now at Mortlake on the Thames with a great ivy-tod shadowing door and window, and one night there he shocked and startled a roomful of men by showing that he could be swept beyond our reach in reveries of affection.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • He had a house now at Mortlake on the Thames with a great ivy-tod shadowing door and window, and one night there he shocked and startled a roomful of men by showing that he could be swept beyond our reach in reveries of affection.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • He had a house now at Mortlake on the Thames with a great ivy-tod shadowing door and window, and one night there he shocked and startled a roomful of men by showing that he could be swept beyond our reach in reveries of affection.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • He had a house now at Mortlake on the Thames with a great ivy-tod shadowing door and window, and one night there he shocked and startled a roomful of men by showing that he could be swept beyond our reach in reveries of affection.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • He had a house now at Mortlake on the Thames with a great ivy-tod shadowing door and window, and one night there he shocked and startled a roomful of men by showing that he could be swept beyond our reach in reveries of affection.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • The mother eyes of a blackbird, sitting upon her eggs in the ivy-tod, kept their bright gold on Joan, but showed no fear; the young rabbits frisked at hand; a mole poked his snout and little paddle-paws out of the grass; all was peace and happiness, it seemed, with the voice of good St. Madron murmuring love in his brooklet at hand.

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • Stone seats still run round two sides of it; ivy and stone-worts and grasses have picked the mortar from the walls and clothed them, even as emerald moss and gray lichens and black and gold glorify each piece of granite; a may-bush, tangled about a great shiny ivy-tod, surmounts the western walls above the dried well; furzes and heather and tall grasses soften the jagged outlines of the ruin, and above

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • Brown skeletons of leaves that lagMy forest-brook along; When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, And the owlet whoops to the wolf below, That eats the she-wolf’s young.

    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. IN SEVEN PARTS 1909

  • ` ` But ye must not be offended, or look out from amang your curls then, like a wildcat out of an ivy-tod, for ye are to understand that he wishes most sincere weel to you, and has proved it.

    Rob Roy 1887

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