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Creeper

noun

Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping.

A person who crawls or creeps along the ground. Synonym: crawler.

Any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet. Synonym: tree creeper.

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"Creeper" Quotes from Famous Books

... when the surrey stopped at a high and rusty iron gate flanked by brick pillars overgrown with Virginia creeper. ...

— The Trumpeter Swan • Temple Bailey

... cottage, snuggled away in a hollow and hidden from the road by a tangle of witch hazel shrubs. The Boy rather expected a dark, forbidding hut of sinister outlines, but here was as pretty a cabin as ever you saw, weathered a pleasing gray, with green blinds and a tiny porch overrun with Virginia-creeper. ...

— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor

... scarred face and misshapen body very pitiful to the passers-by, it was this that gave to her face its homely, cheery smile. It made her eyes quick to know the message in the depths of colour in the evening sky, or even the flickering tints of the green creeper on the wall with its crimson cornucopias filled with hot shining. She liked clear, vital colours, this girl,—the crimsons and blues. They answered her, somehow. They could speak. There were things in the world that like herself were marred,—did not understand,—were hungry to know: the gray sky, ...

— Margret Howth, A Story of To-day • Rebecca Harding Davis

... saw a landscape, the typical picturesque 'bit' of the amateur, an old bridge, a creeper-clad cottage, ...

— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham

... the torrent to which they came betimes to slake their thirst: but their beautiful keen eyes saw him askance—and when he rashly hoped to hunt one down afoot, they went like the wind for a minute—then turned to look at him afar off, mockingly—poor, panting, baffled creeper. ...

— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper

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