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“I want each sequential change of mind in its true, knotted, clotted, viny multifariousness, with all of the colorful streamers of intelligence still taped on,” he wrote in an early essay, “Changes of Mind.”
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2012
He’s camped out in the viny, snake-ridden woods behind the Food Lion in Troy, N.C.
From Washington Post
Tiptoed straight into the melon patch, all viny, with melons ripe for the picking.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
The gardens were all brown stalks and stubble and fallen leaves by now, and so was this one, except for one viny upshoot of green and red.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
He, with viny crown advancing, First to the lively pipe his hand addrest; But soon he saw the brisk awak'ning viol, Whose sweet entrancing voice he loved the best.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
My mammy was a freeborn woman named Viny Frazier and she come from a free country.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration
Thomas Viny was a wheel manufacturer of Tenterden, Kent.
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell
One evening, toiling home through the white sand after a late music-lesson, laden with a bag of flour which she would not trust Viny to buy, she heard a girl's voice singing.
From Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
But where upon the face of the earth the house was situated, Viny knew no more than a bird.
From Twilight Stories by Sidney, Margaret
Here! give me your arm, Viny, and take me over to the girls'.
From Mrs. Tree by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe
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