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  • The grounds within the vine-grown fence were well manicured.

    Lord of the Isles 1997

  • Garric looked behind him at the vine-grown wall that had been the arch through which he entered this garden.

    Lord of the Isles 1997

  • Of course I did miss it, but I doubled back and found it, an old vine-grown house with a suggestion of New England about it.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • She was so dear, it seemed, to Dionysos, that his vine-grown ship would glide by starlight to the water-stairs, and he would come to her in the shape of a black-haired man.

    The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962

  • The mission walls, the inside court, the roomy, vine-grown portico, all the detail of foliage here had been elaborated skilfully, with the touch of an artist.

    The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson

  • Moses Grant sat in his vine-grown arbor one fine afternoon in August.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

  • Yet Moses Grant had sat unmoved in his vine-grown arbor.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

  • For a few moments she leaned against the vine-grown stones gazing away into the moonlit distance.

    The Coming of the King Bernie Babcock

  • The tank-tracks had ended against the vine-grown side of the ravine, what he had smelled had been lubricating oil and petrol, and the leaves on some of the vines hung upside down.

    Hunter Patrol H. Beam Piper 1934

  • Melancholy reminders of this splendor exist even now in the shape of a crumbled ruin here and there, a lichened pillar, an occasional porcelain urn in its place atop a vine-grown bit of wall.

    Rainbow's End Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

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