Japanese ivy
Britishnoun
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The sparrows in the Japanese ivy seemed to be unusually boisterous, and their persistent metallic chatter disturbed Strelsa who presently unclosed her gray eyes upon her own reflected features in the wall-glass opposite.
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Emblematic of true affection, it clings, like Japanese ivy, tenaciously to the object it fixes upon.
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Neither hungry dove nor bold sparrow appeared,—only a spray of Japanese ivy waving in the wind.
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