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  • Where stood the little vine-wreathed cabin now may be seen a larger and more commodious log structure, which is but a continuation of the original.

    Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler

  • At one side of the house there was a little vine-wreathed porch, upon which opened the glass-door of the "garden room," the poet's favorite sitting room, the windows of which looked out upon a pleasant, old-fashioned garden.

    St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 Various

  • Nymphs and fauns and dryads and hamadryads called from the depths of the forest, and youths and maidens and shepherds with vine-wreathed brows danced in the sunlit glades and on the hills where the white flocks roamed, to the plaintive notes of the mystic pipes of Pan.

    When Dreams Come True Ritter Brown

  • Christine, who stood in the dark, vine-wreathed doorway like a picture in a frame.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

  • She usually spends these hours of midday heat with her friends on the vine-wreathed banks of the Malini.

    Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Kalidasa

  • Émilie, the girl-artist from Madrid, with black hair dyed golden, who always swore by Murillo's Virgins, and who did her work dreamily, as if the motions of her hands were timed to the languorous rhythm of some far-off, daintily-touched guitar beneath vine-wreathed balcony and starlit sky.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

  • He sat at a little distance from her feet, on the topmost of the broad stairs, his back against one of the large, vine-wreathed columns, Duke stretched full length beside him.

    At the Time Appointed J. N. [Illustrator] Marchand

  • The vine-wreathed columns on the terrace, the maple avenue and the ground beneath, all glowed under a purple pall of fallen leaves.

    Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

  • From the bottom stair Martha Macauley, distressed young matron and hostess, gazed up at her sister, who, with arms leaning on the vine-wreathed rail at the landing, was smiling down at her.

    Red Pepper Burns 1912

  • The house was then white (it was afterwards painted a pale yellow), with green blinds, and a little vine-wreathed piazza on one side, upon which opened the glass door of 'the garden room,' the poet's favorite sitting-room and study.

    Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912

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