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There is ample light and air still found past the large windows of the lounge, even if a once expansive outlook is now highly proscribed with one's view confined to a vine-hung wall and a few gnarled trees and shrubs.
Michael Henry Adams: Great Houses of New York: The River Club, the Best Address, Part III 2009
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Then they turned out of the moonlight into the trellised darkness of a vine-hung pagoda, where there were scents so plaintive as to be nearly musical.
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The pbth wandered like a stream through a maze of vine-hung arbors; the arbors became a series of chambers, their ceilings and walls as random as the walls of caves.
Dreamfall Vinge, Joan D. 1996
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He jumped off his seat and ran, laughing, into the woods, the tangled, knotted vine-hung woods that grew here on the far side of the mountains, and he saw that he could catch her.
Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995
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Two days ride from Mbwebwe, deep in the Donn: ker Basin, stood a compound surrounded by tall, vine-hung, saptrees.
Circus World Longyear, Barry 1981
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They ran on through vine-hung trees and small clearings.
Modesty Blaise O'Donnell, P. 1965
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Laughing and jesting, calling to one another, the masked crowd moved off to the vine-hung villa ahead, gleaming moon-white through the shrubbery.
Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple
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On the east side stood a certain club house (it stands there yet, by the way), whose peculiar feature was a vine-hung veranda across its entire front, from which an unusually long flight of steps led to the sidewalk.
Stage Confidences Clara Morris
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This noon, when I joined the Governor's wife as usual under the vine-hung balcony, I boasted cheerfully of the promise I had wrung from
Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine Annie T. Colcock
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That little vine-hung arbour had been in her thought ever since Dr. Prue proposed to bring her down to the park.
The Little Red Chimney Being the Love Story of a Candy Man Mary Finley Leonard
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