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