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traveller's joy

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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The traveller’s joy climbs by seizing hold of the branches of plants more solid than itself. 

From Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Sir Francis Darwin

Her ruling thought was one of gladness, even joy—and the traveller's joy at that.

From St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. Knowles

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.

From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton

She vanished upon the winding road, and presently I saw another wayfarer seated on the bank beside the stream, binding up a bleeding foot under the trailing traveller's joy.

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker

The traveller's joy had even gained a footing on the bridge itself.

From Herb of Grace by Rosa Nouchette Carey

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