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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

... of noble square, the dome of the Radcliffe, and St. Mary's spire caught his breath and held him gasping. His feet took him by the gate of Brasenose and across the High. On the farther pavement he halted, round-eyed, held at gaze by the beauty of the Virgin's porch, with the creeper drooping like a ...

— The Ship of Stars • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... deaf to all insinuations, and Jim consoled himself with pretty imaginative pictures in which Lucy was vividly represented sitting on the shady veranda at Macdougal's home stead, spotted with flakes of golden sunshine filtered through the tangle of vine and creeper. How sweet she was, how gentle, how tender, and yet brave of heart and keen-witted withal. She had understood him better than he had understood himself. That was very gratifying; it showed her deep interest in him, but he did not put it to himself in that ...

— In the Roaring Fifties • Edward Dyson

... brought us to Ponson Street, and we drew up at the third house on the left-hand side. It was a pretty little villa, with a nice front garden and a creeper-covered verandah. We rang the bell and waited. Presently we heard some one coming down the passage, and a moment later the door ...

— A Bid for Fortune - or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta • Guy Boothby

... enough flowers, Willie; perhaps just one creeper for the outside of the vase. There—we ...

— The Story of the White-Rock Cove • Anonymous

... like a kestrel, and at other times standing stationary on the margin of water, and then dashing into it like a kingfisher at a fish. In our own country the larger titmouse (Parus major) may be seen climbing branches, almost like a creeper; it sometimes, like a shrike, kills small birds by blows on the head; and I have many times seen and heard it hammering the seeds of the yew on a branch, and thus breaking them like a nuthatch. In North America the black bear was seen ...

— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin

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