Word: vines
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that of the old church-yard with the low tower of Christ Church amid the trees. It is full of the beauful air of repose which has endeared Gray's "Elegy" to the world. At the left of the picture is a separate scrap showing the sunny vine- covered side of Massachusetts Hall. "Cambridge on the Charles" is a wide view across the river marshes of the trees and spires of the town. The stream winds on unrippled in the sun and the drowsy shade is massed densely in the distance, while the square shoulders of Memorial Hall push...
...everyone of us. Nearness will not bind, distance will not separate us except as our frontage, our landscape is alike or different. Everyone may look toward other far-off spiritual landscapes, although he have first to cut away from before his window the tangled vine of the perplexing world. Open your spiritual window and send your prayers to God and His sunshine will flood...
...long tubular ones, and being restrained by a kind of a trap till their work is finished. Bees and balancing flies are fond of tubular flowers. Moths fertilize Orchids, carrying pollen balls clinging to their tongue or eyes. Humming-birds attack long necked flowers like the Trumpet Vine. Flowers allure these animal friends by colors and odors, and guide them by a beaten path to their goal; they discourage intruders by ingenious safeguards...
...this transformation. We have a little ivy here and there. And no one who has observed what a change this little makes in the dingy, dusty, dreariness of the older buildings, can help regretting that the college has not taken the trouble during past years to set out more vines. The autumn coloring of these ivy leaves during the past few weeks has been most beautiful. And when we think how rapidly the vine grows and how easily all our older buildings might by this time have been completely clad in this garb, we feel constrained to suggest...
Life is pleasant enough at Heidelberg. The quaintness and comparative quiet of the little town afford a grateful relief after the more bouyant gayeties of the continental capitals. Then, too, its situation is charmingly picturesque. It lies on the banks of the Neckar with the vine-covered hills in the distance and covering all the old ivy-mantel Schloss, rich in historic interest and tradition. There is a singular fascination in the dreamy quiet of the place, essentially old-world in its nature ; and unless you possess exceptional strength of will you gradually yield to the influence of the Siren...