traveller's joy

British  

noun

1. Also called: old man's beard.  a ranunculaceous Old World climbing plant, Clematis vitalba , having white flowers and heads of feathery plumed fruits

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Example Sentences

"And then," she went on, "the lanes with the high green hedges, dog-roses and brambles and may bushes and traveller's joy—and the grey wooden hurdles, and the gates with yellow lichen on them, and the white roads and the light in the farm windows as you come home from work—and the fire—and the smell of apples from the loft."

From Project Gutenberg

For they were pretty and healthy and they loved each other dearly, and the cottage was charming to look at, in its dress of clustering roses and honeysuckle and traveller's joy, and other sweet and beautiful climbing, flowering plants.

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"Soon will the glade be bright with bellamour The flower which wantons love and those sweet nuns Vale-lilies in their snowy vestiture, Will tell their beaded pearls, and carnations With mitred dusky leaves will scent the wind And straggling traveller's joy each hedge with yellow stars will bind."

From Project Gutenberg

Perhaps the happy memories of hours and days of my childhood spent in a like tree nest built in an old apple tree, endow these tree rooms of the Fountain Inn with charms which cannot be equally endorsed and appreciated by all who read of them; but to me they form an ideal traveller’s joy.

From Project Gutenberg

The winter winds have dispersed the down of the traveller's joy; and the penetrating breath of the mignonette has long ago died off the air.

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