Example Sentences

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There were creepers hanging from the upper branches, and the bells of the flowers of the creepers, great waxy white things like convolvuluses, hung down fast asleep.

From The Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard

A tree-trunk surrounded by red and white roses, poppies, convolvuluses, etc., and upon the stony ground, covered with moss and mushrooms, innumerable lizards, toads, snails, and various insects swarm.

From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Singleton, Esther

The convolvuluses let their white crowns be filled to the brim, drank healths to each other, and emptied the water over the heads of the nettles.

From Mogens and Other Stories by Grabow, Anna

There was the oak and everything else; there even were still convolvuluses on the hedge.

From Mogens and Other Stories by Grabow, Anna

They paused awhile under some trellis work covered with a profusion of Japanese convolvuluses, pale blue, slate colour, rose-tinted, purple, deep red, with white and coloured bands, a marvellous display of fragile beauty.

From South Wind by Douglas, Norman