passion-vine

No mortal artist could have planned that mysteriously beautiful profusion of flowers -- lily and violet, rose and oleander, palm-tree and passion-vine, and the olive branches and orange blossoms interlacing in the moon-light above them.

Beth Woodburn Maud Petitt

A dark porch, half hidden by a passion-vine, that drooped sorrowful, mournful, as though it understood.

The Garden Party, and Other Stories 1922

I knew where the passion-vine had dropped golden globes of fruit during the night — and I knew well where the cool figs, rimy with the early dew, were bursting with scarlet sweetness.

My day : reminiscences of a long life, 1909

He walked away to get the tobacco, and Mrs. Taylor sat where she was, under the verandah just in sight of the corner of the paddock where a small patch was railed off from the rest, with a white-flowering passion-vine growing luxuriantly over the slim fence which surrounded it.

Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush G. Firth Scott 1900

Delicate ferns and dew-gemmed pitcher-plants would quiver there, and the spikes of the many-coloured gladioli would thrust from the earth like spears; and the sweet-scented clematis and the passion-vine would trail and blossom in rose and white and purple on the edges of the kloofs and gorges, every stem and leaf and bud and blossom growing and rejoicing in the balmy breeze and the glorious

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

There was a little silence, broken only by the mad twitter of nesting linnets in the passion-vine overhead.

The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories Margaret Collier Graham 1880

Petunias run about, embracing everybody, and mignonnette gives itself up to the pleasure of living, and my passion-vine is clearly seeking for more worlds to conquer.

Gardening by Myself 1872

The spider crawled across the grey wall; across the glow from the vanished sun; across a coil of a dead passion-vine, that strayed loose through the floor; across the classic shapes of a great cartoon drawn in chalks upon the dull rugged surface of stone.

Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

I wonder what Jehoiakim did with the mealy-bug on his passion-vine, and if he had any way of removing the scale-bug from his African acacia?

Backlog Studies Charles Dudley Warner 1864

I wonder what Jehoiakim did with the mealy-bug on his passion-vine, and if he had any way of removing the scale-bug from his African acacia?

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864