ivied

ADJECTIVE
  1. overgrown with ivy
    Harvard's ivied buildings
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How To Use ivied In A Sentence

  • The house they mortgaged from a bank and lived in was standard, was ivied, was brick. The Flowers Were For This
  • 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
  • Ever since my last snatch I have been much chivied about over the President business; his answer has come, and is an evasion accompanied with schoolboy insolence, and we are going to try to answer it. Vailima Letters
  • The magical, ivied old manse on mature parkland would have made a perfect setting - tranquil, atmospheric and dignified.
  • 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.
  • On a fair hill we see a majestic pile, the ivied walls and towers of Cholmondeley Castle, huge relic and witness of the baronial grandeurs of the Middle Ages.
  • A person who has never seen the picture that was now under my eye, who had read of a place consecrated by the devotion of ages, towards which the tide of human superstition had flowed for twelve centuries, might imagine that St. Patrick's Purgatory, secluded in its sacred island, would have all the venerable and gothic accompaniments of olden time; and its ivied towers and belfried steeples, its carved windows, and cloistered arches, its long dark aisles and fretted vaults would have risen out of the water, rivalling Iona or Lindisfarn; but nothing of the sort was to be seen. The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
  • Cat stalked the corridors and chambers like a restless shade until Maude chivied her outside under the threat of bodily harm. Earl of Durkness
  • The magical, ivied old manse on mature parkland would have made a perfect setting - tranquil, atmospheric and dignified.
  • 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
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