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  • Cannabis is a botanical loner, its sole relative the hopvine used to flavor beer.

    Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization Adrian Higgins 2010

  • The hopvine growing over the high wall behind the seat made a yellow curtain and its scented folds hung down to spill over the stone.

    The Fashion in Shrouds Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931

  • The beds consisted of a thick layer of hopvine, on the top of which was a coating of straw, and this was covered with a blanket.

    Of Human Bondage 1919

  • The beds consisted of a thick layer of hopvine, on the top of which was a coating of straw, and this was covered with a blanket.

    Of Human Bondage 1915

  • It's born in her to be contrary just as it is in that hopvine out yonder that you can't train up straight.

    The Miller of Old Church 1911

  • YOU HAVE TO slow down to avoid an accident when driving by the hopvine-fringed bungalow of Woody West and Maxi Lohrengel-West in Seattle's Leschi neighborhood.

    The Seattle Times 2009

  • Where in Autumn in the wood on the peaceful bank of a Dunai the hopvine with its gold and bronze covers the bared branches of ash trees; where on cranberry bushes the red bunches burn in the rays of the Autumn sun like a circlet of rubies; where Marusina walks in the wood picking the berries and calling upon her fated one in her songs; where in the fields, now umber-coloured, the herds of cattle graze; where the poplar rustles sadly with her leaves yet green over a lonesome grave – as a maiden deserted by her lover; where, when the leaves fall, the night-heaven is so darkly blue and the stars so bright –

    Songs of Ukraina, With Ruthenian Poems 1916

  • It's born in her to be contrary just as it is in that hopvine out yonder that you can't train up straight. "

    The Miller Of Old Church Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

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