Wreath made of branches and leaves of the bay laurel.
1 And it seems certain that our Dante deserved the wreath of laurel .
2 Next morning Leonard Upjohn appeared with a small wreath of laurel .
3 A wreath of laurel was a mark of distinction or honour.
4 Will you not win a wreath of laurel upon the battle-field?
5 The master brought a wreath of laurel to the young tribune, saying: "'Tis from the king."
6 As Lafayette ascended the portico of the court-house a little girl stepped forward, holding a wreath of laurel , and said:
7 On the coffin lay one comprehensive symbol of the fulfilled prophecy: a wreath of laurel - leaves which his son had placed there.
8 A large tablet has been placed above the doorway, with a likeness of the composer encircled by a wreath of laurel .
9 He had no right to imitate the example of Julius Caesar, who concealed his bald head with a wreath of laurel .
10 The ornamentation on the head was not an aureole, as bad been reported, but a wreath of laurel , symbolic of success.
11 It is a wreath of laurel leaves which has been pressed with its rough, woodlike leaves between my body and the coffin lid.
12 Let us look at Gladstone as the great, wise, good, learned man he is, whose wreath of laurel covers a crown of thorns.
13 At the foot of the fasces lies a wreath of laurel , with which to crown the President as the victor over slavery and rebellion.
14 Around both were the words, "Death is swallowed up in Victory," and midway between the two, Dick placed the wreath of laurel .
15 As he finished, his daughter, a girl of seventeen, came forward and put a wreath of laurel on the brow of the kneeling man.
16 She raised the wreath of laurel from her brows and lifted it up to the golden head of the man whose laugh she had caught.
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