The darkness appeared no barrier to his speed, and neither the overhanging branches, nor the wood-bine roots stayed his progress.
"The White Squaw"
Mayne Reid
Perhaps in his heart also, that battered thoroughfare worn by the pattering boots of Ma-bine and the Bois, and the Quartier Breda, there was a green spot sacred to memory and silence, where no footfall should ever light, where no living voice should ever be heard, shut out from the world and its cares and its pleasures, where through the gloom of dead days he could catch a glimpse of a white hand, a flash of a dark eye, the rustle of a trailing robe, and feel sweeping over him the old magic of love's young dream, softening his fancy to tender regret and his eyes to a happy mist- "Like that which kept the heart of Eden green Before the useful trouble of the rain."
"Castilian Days"
John Hay
Therefore, as the old saying is,- Farmer, that thy wife may thrive, Let not burr and burdock wive; And if thou wouldst keep thy son, See that bine and gith have none.
"Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor"
R. D. Blackmore