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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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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 Barker, Edward Harrison

The fresh green of early summer had yielded to darker tones, the trees were thick masses of foliage, the hedges a tangle of traveller's joy.

From The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela

Through cornfields and across a pasture, then down a deep lane, a very tangle of traveller's joy, their way led to the church, the object of their expedition.

From The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela

It has a thick yellow rind and several large seeds, and the property of being icy cold in the hottest weather — a true traveller's joy.

From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)

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

From St. Cuthbert's by Knowles, Robert E.

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