How To Use Ivied In A Sentence
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The house they mortgaged from a bank and lived in was standard, was ivied, was brick.
The Flowers Were For This
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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
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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
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The magical, ivied old manse on mature parkland would have made a perfect setting - tranquil, atmospheric and dignified.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Cat stalked the corridors and chambers like a restless shade until Maude chivied her outside under the threat of bodily harm.
Earl of Durkness
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The magical, ivied old manse on mature parkland would have made a perfect setting - tranquil, atmospheric and dignified.
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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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The carriage passes ivied walls surmounted by stone urns, and enters a courtyard through an elegant gatehouse.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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What legends, what quaint stories, what seemingly extravagant romances, its ivied stones, had they but tongues, could tell!
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A white sun, chivied of outline by a white sky, boomed over a windless day.
Tender is the Night
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The Coliseum's ultratraditional ivied mass of concrete and stone is a handsome landmark five years older than City Hall.
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Then trees began along the roadway, first a scattering between structures, then tunnels of dense, overhanging growth — great, straight, ivied trees, passage without exit.
For A Day
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Awkward introductions were exchanged while the two couples stood on the sidewalk between a hot dog cart and the ivied brick wall separating the campus from the street.
Fly Away Home
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I'd wake up, all worritted and chivied about my imagined charges, and then I'd be too worked up to go back to sleep for ten or fifteen minutes.
Trinityboy Diary Entry
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“Our snow was not only shaken from whitewash buckets down the sky, it came shawling out of the ground and swam and drifted out of the arms and hands and bodies of the trees; snow grew overnight on the roofs of the houses like a pure and grandfather moss, minutely white-ivied the walls and settled on the postman, opening the gate, like dumb, number thunderstorm of white, torn Christmas cards.”
Happy Holidays From the Hoary Hacks at Calbuzz
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Harvard's ivied buildings
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Or will they simply be bypassed and rendered obsolete by new, low-capital, hi-tech organizations built up by people without a vested interest in the real-world ivied halls of academia?
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Behind the ivied walls, the more intellectually prestigious schools are making some pernicious compromises.
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Even Angela Merkel, who had garnered rapturous and entirely undeserved plaudits for her diplomatic efforts during the German presidency, was chivied by a large section of the German media for not paying more attention to the problems at home.
They do not appear to be happy
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The ivied walls of the brick-and-mortar institutions will begin to fall as more and more students discover the solving of traditional educational problems that distance education provides.
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It was an English garden in miniature, with potted orange trees, climbing roses, pink cabbage roses, larkspur, sweet-william, white lilac, and an ivied trellis railing running along the perimeter.
Exit the Actress
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She stood and chivied herself up the seam to the tiny vertical opening at its peak, from which she gazed westward, northward, eastward, and at last she saw it—a tiny spot of white far to the south, growing larger with each passing minute.
Aching for Always
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At one point during the day, two men from one of the more densely ivied colleges strolled by the Rowing Association's food tent.
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And unluckily just missed a farcical interlude, for the chief accountant, accused of embezzling public funds, was attacked and chivied from the town with a petroleum can on his head.
High Albania