Through the brick passage he had a glimpse, as through a funnel, of green leaves climbing on a tiny treillage, and of a broken urn on a scrap of sward.
"The Castle Inn"
Stanley John Weyman
Another, and the broken urn and tiny treillage brought him up short, but on the greensward, in the sunlight, with the air of heaven fanning his brow.
"The Castle Inn"
Stanley John Weyman
Climbing lianas, which cross from one tree to the other, like ropes passing from mast to mast, help to fill up all the gaps in this treillage; and parasites-not timid parasites like ivy or like moss, but parasites which are trees self-grafted upon trees- dominate the primitive trunks, overwhelm them, usurp the place of their foliage, and fall back to the ground, forming factitious weeping-willows.
"Two Years in the French West Indies"
Lafcadio Hearn