It is true that an observer, under that softening influence of the fine arts which makes other people's hardships picturesque, might have been delighted with this homestead called Freeman's End: the old house had dormer-windows in the dark red roof, two of the chimneys were choked with ivy, the large porch was blocked up with bundles of sticks, and half the windows were closed with gray worm-eaten shutters about which the jasmine-boughs grew in wild luxuriance; the mouldering garden wall with ho
"Nya," rejoined Peter, "you only thought of making hay ones and sticking them in the ivy for the sparrows, and they'd have been sopping LONG before egg-laying time.
There's a piece of a plate with a spray of red and yellow ivy on it that is especially beautiful.
The old overshot-wheel, half covered with mountain ivy, caught patches of the warm sunlight filtering through the trees.
By its boarded front door and untrimmed Boston ivy the burglar knew that the mistress of it was sitting on some oceanside piazza telling a sympathetic man in a yachting cap that no one had ever understood her sensitive, lonely heart.
If you want to succeed in today's workforce, you need to present more than an Ivy League degree.
My hero worship made me a disciple to Ivy League scholars who ignited my dormant13) ideas and dead men whose names were printed on book cover buildings and the currency I hungered to possess.
According to The New Yorker, he was confident that he could get into an Ivy League university, such as Harvard or Yale.
The most effective plants for the purpose are peace lilies, which can evaporate the equivalent of a "small teacup" of water a day, and ivy, according to the study – but Dr Blanusa said there are likely many other plants that would be beneficial in fighting the battle against dehydrated skin.
While it is no secret that offering financial gifts to certain Ivy League universities may compensate for a lack of natural gifts, the extent to which Harvard's admission process favors relatives of big donors is only now being laid bare.
Gates spent two years there taking math and computer science courses as a pre-law student, but never finished up his degree (though he was later gifted an honorary diploma from the Ivy League university).
You can have itchy skin due to simple dryness, poison ivy, chickenpox, bug bites, or more serious conditions like psoriasis and eczema.
The legal representative for Facebook's new China subsidiary was the same employee who registered the company that launched Colorful Balloons: Ivy Zhang, Facebook's chief representative and head of business development in China.
Gates spent two years there taking math and computer science courses as a pre-law student, but never finished up his degree (though he was later gifted an honorary diploma from the Ivy League university).
Gates spent two years there taking math and computer science courses as a pre-law student, but never finished up his degree (though he was later gifted an honorary diploma from the Ivy League university).
They stepped past the eunuch into a pillared courtyard overgrown in pale ivy.
The nine-towered manse of Khal Drogo sat beside the waters of the bay, ,, its high brick walls overgrown with pale ivy.
Barack Obama · With his Kenyan father and white American mother, his upbringing in Honolulu and Jakarta, and his Ivy League education, Obama's early life experiences differ markedly from those of African American politicians who launched their careers in the 1960s through participation in the civil rights movement.
Ivy Angerman cannot cry, bathe or swim without breaking out in hives and rashes.
You recall afternoons talking on the phone while crouching in the bedroom closet, and being convinced your child would be the first Ivy League1 college student to graduate wearing pullovers2 at the ceremony.
