Uncle Tom’s Cabin vocabulary

Wild vines, bignonias, coloquintidas, intertwine each other at the feet of these trees, escalade their trunks, and creep along to the extremity of their branches, stretching from the maple to the tulip-tree, from the tulip-tree to the holly-hock, and thus forming thousands of grottoes, arches and porticoes. Often, in their wanderings from tree to tree, these creepers cross the arm of a river, over which they throw a bridge of flowers.

François-René de Chateaubriand. Atala

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The Mississippi! How, as by an enchanted wand, have its scenes been changed, since Chateaubriand wrote his prose-poetic description of it, as a river of mighty, unbroken solitudes, rolling amid undreamed wonders of vegetable and animal existence.

Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

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the stone cottages under enormous Chateaubriandesque trees,

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita