What is "creepers"

Usage examples of "creepers".

Cyrus Harding had said two hours, but of course that depended on the nature of the obstacles they might meet with As it was probable that they would have to cut a path through the grass, shrubs, and creepers, they marched axe in hand, and with guns also ready, wisely taking warning from the cries of the wild beasts heard in the night.

While they were thus occupied, their companions went to the border of Jacamar Wood, and brought back a large quantity of branches and creepers, which would at some distance appear as natural foliage, and thus disguise the windows in the granite cliff.

Then festoons of luminous creepers reacted, faster than any gleamers he was used to, coming up to full brightness nearly before his vision adapted to the lower light level, and he saw two husky youths each bearing a round object like an immense nut.

From here the outline of the city was picked out by glowing creepers and funqi, and he was shaken by its huge extent.

Not only were the drab gray sand-slopes nearby aweb with creepers and punctuate with burrowers: the air was full of unexpected wingets.

Vines and creepers covered the plane, only the glass of the cockpit and the tail rudder clearly visible amid the flowering creepers.

For some unknown reason, the jungle stopped at the side of the roadway, only the tiniest of creepers daring to grow across the old road.

The stout hardwood of the gate was still there, now dark and immovable, tied close with creepers and debris.

Naldeth or Kalion must have set all the creepers alight, which did not suggest the fight went well for our side.

The lines were made of fine creepers, fastened one to the other, of the length of fifteen or twenty feet.

In less than an hour, on the edge of the forest, among the trees, a hut of branches interlaced with creepers, and pasted over with clay, offered a tolerable shelter.

He soon made some snares with creepers, by the aid of which the warren henceforth every day furnished its quota of rodents.

Shrubs and creepers were uninjured, and they had even to cut them away with the axe, as they had done in the deepest recesses of the forest.

Prospect Heights, in a sort of veranda, covered with creepers, which Neb had made with his own hands.

It was not even probable that his attention had been awakened by the screen of green branches and creepers hiding the windows of Granite House, and showing rather conspicuously on the bare rock.