Attracted by the freshness of the spot, I approached and in the midst of a confusion of iris, mint and bindweed, I saw a blonde head quenching its thirst at the stream.
Near by, too, is a hedge covered with great white blooms of the bindweed.
Tall rank grass flourished on every side, carriage-way and borders alike had been blotted into a springing waste, and the few sprawling shrubs which we could recognize hardly emerged from beneath the choking smother of luxuriant bindweed.
The bindweed has a creeping root, wild garlic has a bulb, and such forms are always producing new forms underground while the seed above the ground is able to do the same thing.
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The driving-licence prose has several sub-sentences within it, but these are intertwined likebindweedand brambles.
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The "bureaucraticbindweed," however, did go along with institutionalization of the civil service, making for gradual institutional consolidation.
There was a railway line snaking over empty fields on which reposed abandoned railway trucks through which thebindweedgrew profusely.
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Why are we not all in favour of a piece of legislation, however hopelessly drafted, which seeks in one wrap-up organisation to throw back the creeping paralysis ofbindweedbureauism?
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Common names includebindweedand morning glory, both names shared with other closely related genera.
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Its common names include four-spotted moth and fieldbindweedmoth.
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Smilax is believed to have been given a similar fate and transformed intobindweed.
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