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The orange waste of copper tailings remains bare, but ivied trees crowd beside adits and encircle the fenced-off shafts.

Country Diary: Great Consols, Tamar Valley 2011

It was an English garden in miniature, with potted orange trees, climbing roses, pink cabbage roses, larkspur, sweet-william, white lilac, and an ivied trellis railing running along the perimeter.

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

The house they mortgaged from a bank and lived in was standard, was ivied, was brick.

The Flowers Were For This Christopher Bowen 2011

It was an English garden in miniature, with potted orange trees, climbing roses, pink cabbage roses, larkspur, sweet-william, white lilac, and an ivied trellis railing running along the perimeter.

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

Football, of course, has often been characterized as preparation for life, but it would seem that competition in programming and in the process of creating conglomerates and making big firms out of smaller ones might also provide a pretty good introduction to the challenges that lurk outside the ivied walls.

Mergers & Acquisitions Competition at U-Md. Martin Weil 2010

Awkward introductions were exchanged while the two couples stood on the sidewalk between a hot dog cart and the ivied brick wall separating the campus from the street.

Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010

“Our snow was not only shaken from whitewash buckets down the sky, it came shawling out of the ground and swam and drifted out of the arms and hands and bodies of the trees; snow grew overnight on the roofs of the houses like a pure and grandfather moss, minutely white-ivied the walls and settled on the postman, opening the gate, like dumb, number thunderstorm of white, torn Christmas cards.”

Happy Holidays From the Hoary Hacks at Calbuzz 2010

It seemed like I was on I-35 one minute coming south from Hayward and the next minute I was gazing at the ivied wall, my mind filled with the same envy and bitter memories I felt years ago.

Heaven’s Fury Stephen Frey 2010

Awkward introductions were exchanged while the two couples stood on the sidewalk between a hot dog cart and the ivied brick wall separating the campus from the street.

Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010

 Then trees began along the roadway, first a scattering between structures, then tunnels of dense, overhanging growth — great, straight, ivied trees, passage without exit.

For A Day 2009