Read full poem →The curling vine her swelling clusters spread: 60
He view'd her twining branches with delight,
And praised the beauty of the pleasing sight.
Dictionary Entry
(obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “twining”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And to sulk would nothing gain,
Twining many a trick and wile
I began to soothe and smile.
Read full poem →As kind companions, in one union grows,
Folding their twining arms, as oft we see
Turtle-taught lovers either other close,
Read full poem →Sweet twining hedgeflowers wind-stirred in no wise
On this June day; and hand that clings in hand:--
Read full poem →By their praying and whining,
And clasping and twining,
And panting and wishing,
Read full poem →Those houses, then, were caves, or homely sheds,
With twining oziers fenced, and moss their beds.
Then ploughs for seed the fruitful furrows broke,
Read full poem →O twining hands! O delicate
White body made for love and pain!
Read full poem →The pine-trees waved as waves a woman’s hair,
And in the orchards every twining spray
Was breaking into flakes of blossoming foam: