 ... hearing a traveller of poetical temperament expressing the kind of horror which he felt on beholding, on the banks of the Missouri, an oak of prodigious size, which had been, in a manner, overpowered by an enormous wild grapevine. The vine had clasped...  Bracebridge Hall: Or, The Humorists, a Medley - Page 94by Washington Irving - 1867 - 465 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...overpowered by an enormous wild grape-vine. The vine had clasped its huge folds round the trunk, and from thence had wound about every branch and twig, until...like Laocoon struggling ineffectually in the hideous cojls of the monster Python. It was the lion of trees perishing in the embraces of a vegetable Boa.... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1825 - 224 pages
...overpowered by an enormous wild grape-vine. The vine had clasped its huge folds round the trunk, and from thence had wound about every branch and twig, until...ineffectually in the hideous coils of the monster Python."— Bracebridge Hall. Chapter on Forest Trees. Note 4, page 15, lines 10, 11, 12. Thou hast perish'd More... | |
 | James Lawson Drummond - 1826 - 420 pages
...overpowered by an enormous wild grape-vine. The vine had clasped its huge folds round the trunk, and from thence had wound about every branch and twig, until...trees perishing in the embraces of a vegetable boa." t Ibid. p. HO. is convoluted regularly, but sometimes is revolute, or twining first to one side and... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1827 - 360 pages
...overpowered by an enormous wild grape-vine. The vine had clasped its huge folds round the trunk, and from thence had wound about every branch and twig, until...ineffectually in the hideous coils of the monster Python." — Sracebridge Hall. Chapter on Forest Trees. Note 4, page 15, lines 10, 11, 12. Thou hast perish'... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1827 - 528 pages
...overpowered by an enormous wild grape-vine. The vine had clasped its huge folds round the trunk, and from thence had wound about every branch and twig, until...like Laocoon struggling ineffectually in the hideous coilsof the monster Python." — Bracebridge Hall. Chapter on Forest Trees. Note 4, page 15, lines... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1827 - 256 pages
...overpowered by an enormous wild grape-vine. The vine had clasped its huge folds round the trunk, and from thence had wound about every branch and twig, until...like Laocoon struggling ineffectually in the hideous coilsof the monster Python." — Bracebridge Hall. Chapter on Forest Trees. Note 4, page 15, lines... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 228 pages
...overpowered by an enormous wild grape-vine. The vine had elapsed its huge folds round the trunk, and from thence had wound about every branch and twig, until...ineffectually in the hideous coils of the monster Python." — Bracebridge Hall. Chapter on Forest Trees. Note 4, page 187, lines 1, 2, 3. Thou hastperish'd Morenoblyfar... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1828 - 228 pages
...TO THE FOREST SA1VCTUARV. grape-vine. The vine had elapsed its huge folds round the trunk, and from thence had wound about every branch and twig, until...ineffectually in the hideous coils of the monster Python."— Bracebridge Hall. Chapter on Forest Trees. Note 4, page 187, lines 1, 2, 3. Thou hast perish'd More... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 234 pages
...VOL. I. 19 wild grape vine. The vine had clasped its huge folds round llie trunk, and from tlicnce had wound about every branch and twig, until the mighty tree had withered in Us embrace. It seemed like Laocoon struggling ineffectually in the coils of the monster Python." —... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...overpowered by an enormous wild grape vine. The vine had clasped its huge folds round the trunk, ami from thence had wound about every branch and twig, until the mighty tree had withered in its embrace. It •eemed like Laoco( n struggling ineffectually in the hideous eoilsof the monster Python. It was the... | |
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