How To Use Creeper In A Sentence
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These include northern logrunner or chowchilla Orthonyx spaldingii, little treecreeper Climacteris minor, Atherton scrubwren Sericornis keri, Australian fernwren Crateroscelis gutturalis, mountain thornbill Acanthiza katherina, bridled honeyeater Lichenostomus frenatus, Bower's shrike-thrush Colluricincla megarhyncha, tooth-billed catbird Ailuroedus dentirostris and golden bowerbird Prionodura newtoniana.
Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia
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Some kind of creeper was even growing across the windowpane, trying to get into the house.
READY?
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The Indians of America carry all their products, such as maize, sugar, coffee, etc., in bags made of this leaf, which they know how to arrange so well, that they transport an "arroba," or twenty-five pounds any distance without a single grain escaping, and without any appliance other than a liana or creeper to tie it up with.
Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
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It was a tangle of orange and lemon trees, looped with garlands of roses and flowering creepers, carpeted with a thousand fragrant, old-fashioned flowers, and arboured with grapevines, whose last year's leaves, though sparse, were still russet and gold: altogether a mere bright ribbon of beauty pinned like a lover's knot on a high shoulder of jutting rock.
The Guests Of Hercules
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Thirteen other species of a type of bird known as the Hawaiian honeycreeper had also become instinct.
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He also essayed the role of "The Creeper" in 2 films, 1944's The Pearl of Death (a Sherlock Holmes entry starring Basil Rathbone), and 1946's House of Horrors (where he was exploited by an evil artist played by Martin Kosleck), but was not involved in 1948's The Creeper.
Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: Intriguing Factoids From the Horror/Sci-Fi/Mystery Genre
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I open the window of my study and see the Painted bat, roosting in the foliage of the monstera creeper, is already asleep after a night's wandering, covering its body with its bright red and black wings.
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a harvest of new plants in the garden; for the rose-trees, emaciated with leaflessness, had each a shadow that twisted on the earth like ground-ivy or climbed the wall like a creeper.
The Judge
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It is He who brings gardens into being: creepers and upright trees, the palm and all manner of crops, olives, and pomegranates alike and different.
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Woodcreepers will not cross large, unforested gaps; this may become a problem for their survival as their habitat becomes increasingly fragmented.
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Everything dropped from her — clouds, dress, basket, diamond — all that one had called the creeper and convolvulus.
A Haunted House, and other short stories
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That beautiful and common vine, the Virginia creeper, is a vivid cherry-color.
Rural Hours
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These wigwams were built of branches of trees placed in a circle, which are bound at the top by a kind of creeper called supple-jack.
The Red True Story Book
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In the middle stood a small mound, looking as if it had been made artificially, with a kind of arbour on the top overgrown with some sort of creeper and shut in by trees.
Chatterbox, 1905.
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She proposed to do this closing at the first moment of sheer intolerableness, and that moment seemed well reached when she entered Creeper Cottage and realized what the attic, the kitchen, and the pump really meant.
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
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Tom thinks Wendy is super cute, judging by his creeper stare, so he has her start working right away in the toy department.
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Over the bedstead (more often than not, by the way, it is composed of four planks of varying lengths and thickness, placed across two trestles) I used first to place my oilskin, then my _p'u-k'ai_, and that little creeper which rhymes with hug did not disturb me much.
Across China on Foot
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We passed under the arch of green creepers and entered my room.
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The pillars were adorned in an exceedingly tasteful manner with vases of various flowers including dahlias, sunflowers and chrysanthemums and long trails of ivy and coloured creeper.
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Everything was overgrown with the same creeper vines, fungi and lichen that the old fences were.
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It was as large as a small room; three sides of it formed by minute wirework, with occasional draperies of muslin or other slight material, and covered at intervals, sometimes within, sometimes without, by dainty creepers; a tiny cistern in the centre, from which upsprang a sparkling jet.
Kenelm Chillingly — Complete
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Among the thousands of species he planted on LaGuardia Place are red and white oak, cedar, elm, birch, sassafras, dogwood, sumac, Virginia creeper and goldenrod.
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I beckon the one I want," said the Goddess, pushing through the creeper in the archway.
THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
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Flowering plants, creepers and hedge shrubs will be planted.
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The trees thin and chiefly cypress, with occasionally a large sterculia, but no water whatever: at the ninth mile we entered a very thick eucalyptus brush, overrun with creepers and prickly acacia bushes.
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
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We stop in the gorge for a half an hour to see the wallcreepers again.
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Each had its gay little garden, its shrubbery of lilac, holly, or laurustinus, and its creeper-covered porch.
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These bright red rainforest honeycreepers have long, curved bills that are ideally suited for sipping nectar from Hawaiian lobelias.
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The Tichodrominae (wallcreepers) belong to the Sittidae (Nuthatches and allies), along with the Sittinae (nuthatches).
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It is the creeper that needs something to crawl up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stand still long enough and you'll likely become part of the landscape yourself, quickly covered with the rampant ivy creeper that drapes itself like an emerald dustsheet over every untended acre.
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For every obvious crossbill, razorbill, greenfinch, woodpecker, warbler, treecreeper, swift or flycatcher there is a mysterious wigeon, garganey, gadwall, bittern, siskin, pipit, shrike or twite.
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Police are warning people to make sure their houses are secure even when they are in them following a spate of ‘creeper’ burglaries.
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As you walk you have a good chance of seeing some native birds - brown creepers, bellbirds, grey warblers and fantails.
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There was a great porch over which creeper climbed and a large glass conservatory stretching along the side of the house.
THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
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These included lilacs, lindens, Virginia creeper, marigolds, sunflowers, honeysuckle, pinks, and daisies.
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In stark contrast to my failure with umbrellabirds was our success and satisfaction of our session with my most-wanted Eurasian bird, the wallcreeper.
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It is the creeper that needs something to crawl up.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has a very high diversity and good numbers of native birds, including tui, bellbird, weka, yellow-breasted tit, robin, rifleman, brown creeper, fantail, kereru, grey warbler, and silvereye.
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A keen observer can also find around the same area a tiny plant, almost a miniature of the creeper Torenia travancorica.
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Only in some hollow of a larger tree on the sheltered side may be seen a few scattered leaves of some close-clinging creeper, or the hardy leaves of the tataramoa, bespattered with mud.
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In this area you may see the brown creeper, tomtit, robin, bellbird, rifleman, wood pigeon, falcon and kea.
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These included lilacs, lindens, Virginia creeper, marigolds, sunflowers, honeysuckle, pinks, and daisies.
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A flock of brown creepers were on most of the trees.
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If it's not sensitive information could anyone please tell me where to find wallcreeper at any site in the Pyrenees?
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Capitalising on its eerie claustrophic domestic ambiance early on this is a brooding creeper that has a powerful ability to ensnarl the audience into its relentless spell.
This Week’s Essential SCARY Movies for Free T.V Guide | Obsessed With Film
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Vines of the largest size, creepers, aroids, and bromeliads and more than 150 orchid species are part of the epiphytic realm that grows over the giant trees.
Magdalena-Urabá moist forests
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Some kind of creeper was even growing across the windowpane, trying to get into the house.
READY?
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The tanager family of North and South America boosts some of the most beautiful of all the creatures; included in the family are honeycreepers or sugarbirds, dacnis, and euphonias.
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I made very good blue ink from the juice of a berry, the fruit of a creeper, which is the colour of port wine when expressed.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death
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The sittellas often forage head-downward, and the tree-creepers climb up tree trunks seeking prey under the bark.
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Among the thousands of species he planted on LaGuardia Place are red and white oak, cedar, elm, birch, sassafras, dogwood, sumac, Virginia creeper and goldenrod.
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Tree-ferns and mosses and a myriad other parasitic forms jostled with gay-coloured fungoid growths for room to live, and the very atmosphere itself seemed to afford clinging space to airy fairy creepers, light and delicate as gem-dust, tremulous with microscopic blooms.
Chapter 25
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We have found a pair of nesting wallcreepers not far from the village and easily reached on foot, The birds are at this site until mid-July.
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As you walk you have a good chance of seeing some native birds - brown creepers, bellbirds, grey warblers and fantails.
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I only block trolls and creepers though, which I haven't been getting a lot of lately.
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Because the canopy is relatively open here, the vegetation is often overgrown with rattan vine, greenbrier, wild grape, pepper vine, trumpet creeper, Virginia creeper, and poison ivy.
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Whipping out his knife, he quickly cut a long length of "monkey-rope" or creeper, and twisting the tough pliant stem into a grummet round the trunk of the tree, he bade me pass the bight over my shoulders, and then showed me how, with its aid,
The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron
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Petite plants don't obstruct views for drivers or pedestrians, and a generous border of bluestone interplanted with bluestar creeper allows guests ample room to open car doors and alight without stepping on the plants.
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But when Minaj shows up as their feminine "creeper" parallel, the video crosses into the realm of legendary.
WATCH: Nicki Minaj & Lonely Island Do 'The Creep' On SNL
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In this area you may see the brown creeper, tomtit, robin, bellbird, rifleman, wood pigeon, falcon and kea.
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The plant, a creeper of the arum lily family, is a native of Mexico and Guatemala.
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Whether she's demonstrating how to keep creepers away, or producing mini-musicals featuring her dogs, she is always entertaining.
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The small front garden is railed and granite walls enclose a 50 foot long back garden in lawn with a number of mature shrubs, colourful flowering plants, trees and wall creepers.
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And, looking down, I saw him and the second lieutenant forthwith whip out their knives and begin hacking away at a creeper, wherewith to make grummets to assist them in their attempt at tree-climbing.
The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron
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Waterbirds such as the kingfisher suffered very high mortality rates when rivers and streams froze over, while small insect-eating species such as the treecreeper, goldcrest, wren and long-tailed tit died because of widespread "glazed frosts", a layer of ice over the branches of trees which covered up their food supply.
Weatherwatch: 'War winter' took it's toll on Britain's birds
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Thus, the Conservatory Garden was pressed into service to evoke the bower—orchids, ivy, Virginia creeper, insectivorous plants and, of course, those primroses—at Down House, Darwin's home in Kent.
Evolution of a Garden
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Oh! we call a small kind of grapnel, or four-armed anchor, a creeper," said Will.
Menhardoc
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And as I was jogging along in a dream as dozing I was dawdling, arrah, methought broadtone was heard and the creepers and the gliders and flivvers of the earth breath and the dancetongues of the woodfires and the hummers in their ground all vociferated echoating: Shaun!
Finnegans Wake
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And the song that most loans itself to a horror movie reading - "Creepin 'in the Dark" - brings fear to the world most of us live in, suggesting that the creeper is a thug or robber instead of something with an atom brain.
Undefined
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You cannot fail to behold it when you attain the crest -- and having climbed the steep-up heavenly hill -- as the poet says -- "Sir Edward went bounding across the shingle and vanished up a steep path overhung with bushes and creepers.
Sanditon
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The bird spends the day searching for food in such places -- hence its name nettle-creeper -- creeping along the hedges, under brambles and thorns, and builds its nest in the locality to which it is accustomed.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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Brown creepers have just taken over the neighborhood, you hear them everywhere you go.
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The ground flora consists of grasses such as Digitaria diagonalis, Loudetia simplex, and Themeda triandra, dicotyledonous herbs, ferns (particularly brackenfern Pellaea spp.) and creepers such as Smilax kraussiana.
Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic
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The songs of woodcreepers are simple and unmusical.
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There appears to be a decline in numbers of great spotted kiwi, blue duck, kaka, rifleman, brown creeper and long tailed bat in the Grey and Maruia valleys, although there was minimal harvesting in these areas.
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Sea anglers are still catching flounders at Priory Point, Canal Foot, Tridley and Plumpton on creeper tipped with mackerel, also small whiting on lugworm at the Deep Water Berth at Walney.
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Wild creepers burst through laterite banks and spills across the flooded roads.
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Bright green baby's tears, blue star creeper, and creeping thyme grow below them.
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The tendency has been towards using the hardy vines, of which the ampelopsis, or Virginia creeper, is one of the most common.
Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
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Between the slightly overcrowded urns and statues there were bright dashes of color, here of dahlias in full bloom, there of reddening garlands of ampelopsis or Virginia creeper.
The Inner Shrine
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Behind them, an angle-poise lamp (with low energy lightbulb to salve my eco-conscience), a Beanie Baby skeleton called Creepers (my NaNoWriMo mascot from last year), small plush Cthulhu toy, a Crookes radiometer and the latest addition to my desk, a large gargoyle candle stick.
What does your writing area say about you? « Write Anything
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Meanwhile Roy will be wearing a cream drape suit and creepers with leopard skin fronts.
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It lived up to its reputation with violaceous trogon, cinnamon and other woodpeckers, woodcreepers, antwrens, antbirds, antshrikes, purple-throated fruit-crows, wrens and flycatchers.
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Bright green baby's tears, blue star creeper, and creeping thyme grow below them.
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Just because he was spying on Olivia via hidden cameras, it doesn't necessarily mean that he's a creeper.
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On the evening of the Feud, Jenni turns up in an all-in-one black jumpsuit, and Wolfie is "dressed to kill in an electric-blue ska suit and white vinyl brothel-creepers with steel toecaps inlaid".
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry – review
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They had built huts in uninhabited places, or made a twisted bower of strong green creepers, and lived their primitive paradisal life wanting nothing but each other; sometimes, through accidents and illness, they had nursed each other, with such unwearied tenderness that death himself had to withdraw, defeated by love.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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Vines attractive for fruit include supplejack, zone 6; Virginia creeper, zone 4; and grape, zone 3, depending on species.
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The Olivaceous Woodcreeper is distributed from Mexico through Central America and into most of tropical and sub-tropical South America.
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Lilies and the flower-de-luce sprang up in the place of reeds; smilax and poison-oak gave way to the purple-plumed iron-weed and pink spiderwort; the bindweeds ran everywhere blooming as they ran, and on one of the dead cypresses a giant creeper hung its green burden of foliage and lifted its scarlet trumpets.
Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools
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Woodcreepers sunbathe and have been seen anting, a behavior that is thought to help prevent or remove ectoparasites.
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It is now so overgrown with vines and creepers that it has half returned to the jungle.
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A widely known garden climber, the scarlet Rangoon creeper is a native of Africa which was introduced in the tropics as a popular ornamental.
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It is a creeper-clad 1930s property, set in its own grounds and ringed by mature trees and south-facing lawns.
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Virginia creeper is at its most spectacular, with whole walls on some buildings ablaze with red.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this area you may see the brown creeper, tomtit, robin, bellbird, rifleman, wood pigeon, falcon and kea.
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Examples are glossy black chokecherry, Siberian and ‘red splendor’ crabapple, snowberry, bittersweet, sumacs, American highbush cranberry, eastern and European wahoo, Virginia creeper and Chinaberry.
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Seated on it, against no more romantic object than a blackened chimneystack over which some bumble creeper had been trained, they both pored over one book; both with attentive faces; Jenny with the sharper; Lizzie with the more perplexed.
Our Mutual Friend
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Poison (trifoliolate, or _three-leaved_) ivy resembles Virginia Creeper, and all nurses and caretakers should be able to recognize it.
The Mother and Her Child
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The bird fauna has a temperate Eurasian character, with titmice Parus spp., tree creepers Certhia spp., and nuthatches Sitta spp. active in the forest.
Qin Ling Mountains deciduous forests
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They accuse him of being a restroom creeper.
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We first rode through a long, straggling village, called Carreiras, and afterwards passed a small fazenda, where there were evidences of a refined mind; it was radiant with flowers, and trellised with creepers.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
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‘grub-picker’ (or tree-creeper), about as small as the penduline titmouse, with speckled plumage of an ashen colour, and with a poor note; it is a variety of the woodpecker.
The History of Animals
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Bifolding glass doors and windows ran the length of the house, opening out to a wide sun-drenched terrace flanked by roughcast walls smothered in a dark creeper, the outer edge of which fell away with heart-stopping suddenness into a zigzag shaped swimming pool.
Mistress For A Weekend
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There were lots of different species, as I recall, pretty typical of seepage swamp: black ash and cottonwood, buckthorn, marsh marigold, Virginia creeper, touch-me-not, wood nettle.
FALSE MERMAID
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The creeper is growing in towards the gutter, and should be cleared away.
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The birds in the mountains and forests might include ring ouzels, alpine accentors, wallcreepers, nutcrackers, and we will find alpine flowers and butterflies.
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He was a creeper who spied on her every move and manipulated his way into their lives.
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The male Yellow-legged or Purple Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes caeruleus) is a beautiful bird that keeps his color year-round.
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The soundtrack disc includes vintage rockers by Sweet and Girlschool and new songs by Creeper, a band fronted by the one and only Dean.
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You can buy a creeper aka Onesie with a built-in TinyBig in sizes 6 to 24 months.
TinyBigs: Anti-Gravity Device for Loose Baby Pants | Thingamababy
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TRIBAL LEADERSTeddy Boys, Mods and RockersIn drape jackets, drainpipes and creepers, Teddy boys roamed the streets as rock 'n' roll took root in Britain.
Is music tribalism dead?
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The Virginia creeper is vivid cherry color, as usual, and its leaves are already dropping; they are always the first to fall.
Rural Hours
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A woman looked down on the scene from her balcony, to which a flowering creeper aspired.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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In this area you may see the brown creeper, tomtit, robin, bellbird, rifleman, wood pigeon, falcon and kea.
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On the evening of the Feud, Jenni turns up in an all-in-one black jumpsuit, and Wolfie is "dressed to kill in an electric-blue ska suit and white vinyl brothel-creepers with steel toecaps inlaid".
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry – review
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His style, which Aiken described as "like a jungle of rank creepers and ferocious blooms taking shape before one's eyes-magnificently and endlessly intervolved, glistening and ophidianly in motion, coil sliding over coil, and leaf and flower forever magically interchanging," was viewed by a majority with less favor.
The Private World of William Faulkner
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His flight in search of food had daily led him farther on, till he had discovered and explored the Rosedale Creek, with its banks of silver-birch, and Castle Frank, with its grapes and rowan berries, as well as Chester woods, where amelanchier and Virginia-creeper swung their fruit-bunches, and checkerberries glowed beneath the snow.
Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen
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Then, there is the little brown creeper which never perches and is forever creeping, creeping, upward, upward -- save, of course, when it takes to wing -- and yet its toes are arranged in the normal percher style, the hind digit having an especially long, curved claw.
Our Bird Comrades
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Perfect plants for this project include tiny sedums, succulents, and thymes like the ones shown in these two bowls as well as baby's tears, blue star creeper, dichondra, and Irish and scotch mosses.
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Creeper plants belong to Grape family. They are climber plants that are perennial lignification big lianas. There are about 15 species of creeper plants in the world.
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The half-timbered car came to a halt beneath a creeper-hung cliff and an elderly woman climbed out.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Sweet thorn, wild olive, karee species, spekboom, sneezewood, guarri, milky rope, tree fuchsia and many varieties of succulents, vines and creepers are to be found here in abundance.
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In the full blaze, feather-foliaged trees crowned with gigantic red blossoms offered as a sacrifice fruit which blushed before the insistent gaze of the sun; while beneath this gay canopy vine and creeper and pliant shrub wove an undergarment which screened the moist earth and created a realm of subdued light in which all the flowers were pale of tint and tremulously fragile, though of almost forbidding magnitude of form.
Tropic Days
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The bignonia family (_Bignoniaceæ_) is mainly tropical, but in our southern states is represented by the showy trumpet-creeper (_Tecoma_) (Fig. 121, _A_), the catalpa, and _Martynia_.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
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The entrance is enhanced by plants such as ready grown, trees, magnolias and other plants suited to the acid soil of the area with ready grown creepers lining the pillars.
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Some kind of creeper was even growing across the windowpane, trying to get into the house.
READY?
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Yes muntries are little purple berries and they're the fruit of a shrub, a ground creeper, that grows down in eastern South Australia.
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At first, they just skulked around the windows at the viewing parties and peered in like a bunch of creepers.
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In contrast, when the plant becomes a creeper, the fibers run more at a slant [see illustration below].
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Creepers are always ambitiously trying to crawl over every inch of the wall.
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The root of a small creeper called "bise" is dug up and eaten.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864
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Woodcreepers live primarily in lowland tropical forests and are mainly insectivores.
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This creeper is found naturally in the summer rainfall areas from the coast to the inland mountains.
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The Red-legged Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyanueus), also known as the Yellow-winged Sugarbird, is found from Southern Mexico, through Latin America to Northern South America.
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Wallcreepers, which can often be encountered on the main track up towards Cabaña Verónica in April and May, while hard winters find them in the depths of the gorges.
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The fourth point is that it has a very high diversity and good numbers of native birds, including tui, bellbird, weka, yellow-breasted tit, robin, rifleman, brown creeper, fantail, kereru, grey warbler, and silvereye.
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Brown Creepers spend most of their time on main trunks or major limbs, bracing themselves with their tails like miniature woodpeckers.
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Only the cercis and the Virginia creeper were planted primarily for autumn looks, and the rest just have autumn as a bonus feature.
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I will never resemble clambering trumpet creeper.
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The roadsides in the burgeoning light are dense with Virginia creeper, and the speeding car shines like molten gold.
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Other Hawaiian birds, such as the 20 or so diverse and colorful honeycreepers, face equally grim prospects if the disease hits, Burgett predicts.
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Large trees are about us, and from their branches hang gray filaments of moss, while great creepers, like monstrous serpents, curl around the trunks and writhe in tangles through the air.
CHAPTER XVIII
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Father has a lot of "Chinese trumpet creeper grass " on seeing a lawn, will have plucked several coming down, teach us doing whistle boast.
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She could trek through the grass playing Jungle Explorers, swinging on the creepers like a tiny Tarzan.
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One most beautiful and exotic of creepers is cardinal creeper.
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They love the subtropics and many are unsuitable to let loose in a home garden; unruly types like bougainvillea, cat's claw creeper, Jasminum polyanthum and potato vine run like rockets up the nearest tree if not regularly hacked back.
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Instead of putting the Monte up on the lift, Tommy (“Tommy the Temper,” as some of our regulars called him) kicked over a creeper and rolled under the car with a droplight.
Least Resistance
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Hills of Sanskrit literature where grow the cardamum creeper and the
My Reminiscences
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J, is produced by means of a special device called a creeper, consisting of a piece of brass carefully fitted to a threaded steel rod some 30 centimeters long.
Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man
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Under a ceiling of northern needleleaf trees, for instance, they know to look for porcupines, red squirrels, redbelly snakes, and brown creepers.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
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Lucky suet providers might also host creepers, kinglets, warblers, and wrens, none of which typically visit seed feeders.
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Staying nearby in the creeper-fronted Hotel Raphael, we crossed the square each time we set out on or returned from our long ambles around the city.
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Behind creeper-clad walls, pointed gables, and mullioned windows is a world where the twentieth century is given house room only so far as it promises to ensure the comfort, ease and well-being of its guests.
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This was in the mid-seventies when the sight of brothel creepers, fluorescent socks, drape coats and drainpipe trousers was as outrageous as seeing a man ride down the street on a penny farthing.
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He is a creeper who's dating a teenager, recording everything that takes place in his life and leering through windows.
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If you have watched his insanely popular TV Burp you will know what to expect: the big glasses, the oversized collar, the brothel-creepers on his feet.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Some of the most popular berry-producing plants for bluebirds include blackberry, blueberry, raspberry, elderberry, bayberry, dogwood, juniper, Virginia creeper, sumac, pokeweed, mountain ash, and mistletoe.
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The creeper is growing in towards the gutter, and should be cleared away.
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Both the poison ivy and the Virginia creeper are native to eastern North America, but the English ivy is a native of Europe that is now naturalized in many parts of the U.S.
Archive 2009-07-01
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• Black Doc Marten shoes or boots, but not the knee-highs favoured by Goths and gay skinheads; possibly brogues or brothel-creepers at a pinch.
Cultural Snow
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Suboscines, which include flycatchers, ant-birds, woodcreepers, and ovenbirds, are now diverse in the New World, with about 1,100 species, nearly all of them in South America.
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A short drive to Corbett is rewarding as we stop en route for birding, looking for wall creepers, forktails, etc.
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You may also see some of Zagori's eight species of woodpecker, as well as wallcreepers, dippers, rock thrush, golden oriole, snow finch.
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With respect to men in other stations of life he is pleased to say, it is decent for a priest "to be sober and sad;" "a judge to be incorrupted, solitary, and unacquainted with courtiers or courtly entertainments ... without plait or wrinkle, sour in look and churlish in speech; contrariwise a courtly gentleman to be lofty and curious in countenance, yet sometimes a creeper and a curry favell with his superiors.
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
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To date, mitochondrial rate calibrations have been generated (in chronological order) for geese, Hawaiian honeycreepers, cranes, partridges, procellariiform seabirds, and ratites.
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Ours grows along horizontal wires and into the mass of other wall shrubs that exist on the wall and which include climbing hydrangea, ivy and Virginia creeper.
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This is all you desire at present, creeper on! insinuator!
Clarissa Harlowe
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For every obvious crossbill, razorbill, greenfinch, woodpecker, warbler, treecreeper, swift or flycatcher there is a mysterious wigeon, garganey, gadwall, bittern, siskin, pipit, shrike or twite.
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But while most of the foliage is gaining in brilliancy, bare limbs are already seen here and there; the Virginia creepers are all but leafless, so are the black walnuts; and the balm of Gilead poplar is losing its large leaves.
Rural Hours
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The banks are charmingly wooded with acacias of many varieties, some thorned like the fabled Zakkum, others parachute-shaped, and planted in impenetrable thickets: huge white creepers, snake-shaped, enclasp giant trees, or connect with their cordage the higher boughs, or depend like cables from the lower branches to the ground.
First footsteps in East Africa
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About her were villas engarlanded with reddening creeper.
Evelyn Innes
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On the wall of a neighboring brick house, Virginia creeper and ampelopsis added fuel to the fire of surrounding color, while a maple in the middle distance blazed with all the hues that might have flamed in Moses's burning bush.
The Street Called Straight
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They walked down the man trail, enjoying the many songs of the tree creepers above.
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A brown creeper also wooed us for just one day.
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They are more than just dense clumps of various kinds of trees, creepers, grasses, bushes, shrubs and twining creepers.
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With a creeper glint in his eyes, Peter eschews any form of anger management in favor of destroying his career in one glorious temper tantrum.
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And I, too, was goth from the top of my black hair to the tips of my brothel-creepers.
Happy Birthday, Deven « Whatever
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It happened on the Hawaiian islands, when two small birds called honeycreepers ultimately produced more than 50 distinct species that swarmed the forests.
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Up, up, sir, for Christ's sake!" and he was half-dragging me through the slime towards the safety of a tangled mass of creeper on top of a mudbank.
Fiancée
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Ours grows along horizontal wires and into the mass of other wall shrubs that exist on the wall and which include climbing hydrangea, ivy and Virginia creeper.
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He crossed the Atlantic three times to bring back the pineapple, the yucca, and the scarlet runner bean, along with the Virginia creeper whose green leaves go flame red in autumn.
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Flea beetles also feed on many nongarden plants, including Virginia creeper, pokeweed, horse nettle, pigweed and wild mustard family plants.
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This site held two wintering wallcreepers but on the two occasions I visited we did not find them.
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The Decider also has Iran in his little peepers which is giving many of us the creepers.
Archive 2007-09-01
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Of course, year-round residents also make their homes among the bright red coffee cherries, including jays, wood creepers, hummingbirds, toucans, parrots, parakeets and other species.
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Hardy enough to grow in nearly all Sunset climate zones, Virginia creeper will thrive in either full sun or filtered shade, and its low water requirement makes it a natural choice for xeriscapes.
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Clarke then left on a bird-watching holiday among the Mecklenburg lakes in northern Germany in search, according to aides, of the rock partridge, wallcreeper, middle spotted woodpecker and elusive penduline tit.
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She's dealt with her fair share of creepers when it comes to obsessive fans and trespassers at her home.
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Birds easily encountered on the plateau near the falls include the Guianan cock-of-the-rock, as well as honeycreepers, and tanagers.
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Extremely quiet on the way up, but at the top saw a fine male wallcreeper on the crags to your right as you walk up, best viewed by walking as far right as you can go along the radio mast fence.
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The light, as it filtered through endless creepers and blossoms, lost still more luminosity, until finally it became hopelessly diffused.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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People were saying jeepers, creepers when Harry Redknapp paid £5m for him.
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The other half of the title belongs to Eclipso and her turning of the Creeper, Plastic Man and Dove into eclipsoid villains before Jean Loring loses the Eclipso power.
Archive 2008-01-01
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Each, however poor, had a wild garden around it, and, where the inhabitants possessed some pride in their surroundings, the roses and the jasmines and that distinguished creeper, -- which one sees nowhere at its best but in Devonshire cottage-gardens, -- the stately cotoneaster, made the whole place a bower.
Father and Son: a study of two temperaments
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And every year the little creeper remembers the words of the angel and blushes again as she thinks of them.
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The whole house is covered in Virginia creeper and among the trees are an apple tree, cedar, Japanese cedar and large cypress.
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It was a small, whitewashed place, with a green porch over the door; scanty brown stalks showed in the garden soil near this porch, and likewise beneath the windows - stalks budless and flowerless now, but giving dim prediction of trained and blooming creepers for summer days.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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While climbing, wallcreepers flap their wings, showing brief glimpses of a red band of feathers; this coloring is intensified in males during mating season.
