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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
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
Tiptoed straight into the melon patch, all viny, with melons ripe for the picking.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
The long grape-arbor at the end of the lawn looked viny and cool.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various
The dear Liberty sisters were next, Lucy and Viny and Libbie Liberty.
From Friendship Village by Gale, Zona
"It don't make naw difference as I can see, Miss 'Lisabeet," said Viny, when the new mistress carefully explained to her that she was a free agent from that time forth.
From Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
"Dar," said Viny, with a violent twist, so that she could compass the back breadths of her blue gingham frock, and she pointed abruptly to a cat-a-cornered rent.
From Twilight Stories by Sidney, Margaret
Mis' Viny, balancing on the window ledge to reach for eggs, looked back at us.
From Friendship Village by Gale, Zona
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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