Careful Words

ivy (n.)

ivy (v.)

ivy (adj.)

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green,

That creepeth o'er ruins old!

Of right choice food are his meals, I ween,

In his cell so lone and cold.

Creeping where no life is seen,

A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870): Pickwick Papers. Chap. vi.

  You need not hang up the ivy-branch over the wine that will sell.

Publius Syrus (42 b c): Maxim 968.