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  • The people in the streets walked briskly, with no laggard steps; they were accustomed to this sort of untimely treatment from the New England climate, and they had no intention of being betrayed thereby into pondering over southern lands or sunny vineclad hillsides where summer always lingered.

    White Ashes Alden Charles Noble

  • He dwelt among the vineclad rocks and olive groves at the foot of Helicon.

    Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

  • From Clermont station the train describes a semicircle as it ascends the highly-cultivated vineclad mountains rising from Clermont.

    The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

  • Again I saw him escape from Elba, bare his breast to the guns of his former legions and rout royalty from its palace portals, and sweeping for a hundred days over the vineclad hills of France, he finally on the 18th of

    Shakspere, Personal Recollections John A. Joyce

  • There seemed to come up from its waters and its vineclad hills and valleys a hushed music as of Crusaders departing for the Holy Land.

    Walking [1862] 1909

  • Dots of vivid colors flame and fade and pass to ledges of dank, vineclad rock and drifts of shale, as the road climbs again.

    Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

  • Though less rich than the vineclad south, the greenness of its fields and hedges never failed to amaze her, and she was fascinated by the quaint villages, their thatched roofs, church spires, and flowery gardens.

    The Princess of the School Angela Brazil 1907

  • Several of the enthusiastic young aids seized pretty vineclad cottages as headquarters for their respective generals.

    Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom Trumbull White 1904

  • A few yards, and he was quit of Duke of Gloucester Street; behind him, porticoed Capitol, gaol, and tiny vineclad debtor's prison.

    Audrey Mary Johnston 1903

  • To reach it he had to traverse a little walk shaded by a vineclad arbor.

    Mob Rule in New Orleans Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics Ida B. Wells-Barnett 1896

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