"And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?"

Petronius looked through the branches of woodbine into the garden, and at the three persons who were playing there.

The mirror of ponds gleamed quietly; groves of roses were blooming, watered with the spray of fountains; entrances to charming grottos were encircled with a growth of ivy or woodbine; silver-colored swans were sailing on the water; amidst statues and trees wandered tame gazelles from the deserts of Africa, and rich-colored birds from all known countries on earth.

Woodbine in sentence

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