Some of these poles were carved with vines twining about them, some in the shapes of fantastic animals and birds, some decorated with geometric shapes or abstract curved lines.

The twisted stone doorframe stood in the center of a round hall with a ceiling so high it was lost in shadows, surrounded by strange spiraled yellow columns snaking up into the gloom, like huge vines twining 'round poles that had been taken away.

Some of the trees or the vines twining around them practically dripped brilliantly colored blossoms.

Klerris points to a scraggly blue flower that droops from a thorn vine twining from half a dozen heaped rocks a cubit or so from Creslin's right foot.

It was simple but very elegant through that carved stone gateway, the courtyard roofed in by vines twining over wires, so that the chairs and tables were shielded from the sun's extreme heat by the delicate leaves.

It seemed unthinkable suddenly that anyone could bruise anything here, from the walls of quartz and crystal with their ever-rising spires and belfries, to the sweet, soft vines twining upwards in the branches of trees dripping with magnificent fruits and flowers.

Now the plant was in full bloom, the vine twining around his heart.

My mind fixed on the weeds just then hoisting victory flags over my own garden, I recognized one of the vines twining along the fence from the field guides I'd been consulting.

Her pack tattoo, a vine twining about barbed wire, circled her ankle.