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Use in Literature

Tendril

His tendrils are wrapped about your salary.–Edward Hamilton Aitken in Behind the Bungalow.

The tendrils of his verse reach up to the light, and love the warmer side of the garden wall.–Thomas Bailey Aldrich in Ponkapog Papers.

The intellectual and spiritual tendrils of the poem are more truly interwoven, the operation of their centres more nearly unified; and so the work goes deeper into life.–Aristophanes in Lysistrata.

Quick as thought, a spasm of life shot up the tendrils, and like tongues of blue flame they closed round the victim, lapping his miserable body in their embrace.–Edwin L. Arnold in Gulliver of Mars.

This variety produces several tubers at the root, and also upon the stalk; it does not spread upon the ground, like most of the vines that characterise the yams, but it climbs upon trees or upon any object that may tempt its tendrils.–Samuel White Baker in The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile.

Quietude reigns; a tendril or twig is occasionally threaded or poked into the nests.–E.J. Banfield in My Tropic Isle.

The nests, deftly built of tendrils and slender creepers and grass are domed, the entrance being at the side, and so hidden and overhung as almost to escape notice.–E.J. Banfield in The Confessions of a Beachcomber.

The shape of the tendril is all that can be said in its favour.–E.J. Banfield in Tropic Days.

This morning, the flock assembled at break of day, and began, some to extricate tendrils from, others to repair woebegone nests.–E.J. Banfield in My Tropic Isle.

Once down, many of the Loons held them, to prevent their getting up again, while others wound long tendrils of vines about them, binding their arms and legs to their bodies and so rendering them helpless.–L. Frank Baum in The Tin Woodman of Oz.

• Preface iv
• Use in Literature 1
• Tendril 1
• Tendril – "Hair" 4
• Tendril – "Heart" 5
• Tendril – "Leaves" 6
• Tendril – "Little" 7
• Tendril – "Vine" 8
• Nonfiction Usage 9
• Script Usage 9
• Journalism Usage 9
• Patent Usage 9
• Bibliographic Usage 9
• Lexicographic Usage 12
• Index 20