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Grapevine

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Grapevine

Town in Tarrant and Dallas counties, northeast Texas; population (1990) 29,200. It is located 32 km/20 mi northeast of Fort Worth, on Grapevine Lake and to the north of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Established in 1854, it was an agricultural trade centre, which has gradually transformed into a residential and industrial suburb. The town has various light manufactures. Its population more than doubled in the 1980s. Grapevine Lake is a Dallas water source and site of the Grapevine Recreational Area.
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I dried myself in the sun, and dressed slowly, reluctant to leave that green enclosure where the sunlight flickered so bright through the grapevine leaves and the woodpecker hammered away in the crooked elm that trailed out over the water.
My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context
A fine house was built there, with large windows, and smooth white walls; but before it, where the old house had in fact stood, was a little garden laid out, and a wild grapevine ran up the wall of the neighboring house.
Andersen's Fairy Tales by Andersen, Hans Christian View in context
One day it was a grapevine, and another day it was a boiler, and another day it was the key of the front-parlour closet at the bottom of the water-butt, and so on through a hundred items.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context
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