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  • He played the intro solos from "Sanitarium" and "Fade to Black" and a little improvised thing based on a riff from Opeth ( "Wreathe").

    September 28th, 2006 wheatland_press 2006

  • "Christ was born on Christmas day; Wreathe the holly, twine the bay", etc.

    Josef Lieber 1997

  • "Wreathe the bowl with flowers of the soul," he had acquired the power of self-restraint, and could stop when the glass was circulating too freely.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

  • Wreathe pride now for his granite brow, lay love on his breast of stone.

    On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines 1919

  • She allowed Lizzie to carry Patience into their bedroom after supper and Amos, smoking in the yard and planning the garden for next year, waited in vain to hear "Beulah Land" and "Wreathe me no gaudy chaplet" float to him from the open window.

    Lydia of the Pines Honor�� Morrow 1910

  • Wreathe one less leaf, grieve with less grief, —of all our hosts that led

    Raglan 1895

  • Wreathe pride now for his granite brow, lay love on his breast of stone.

    Gloucester Moors and Other Poems William Vaughn Moody 1889

  • Wreathe darkly with cypress love's bright mystic lyre --

    War songs of the South ed. William G. Shepperson. 1862

  • Farther: the beautiful power of the one I have drawn in its spring life, is in the opposition of its dark purple to the primrose in England, and the pale yellow anemone in the Alps. And its individual name will be, therefore, 'Contorta purpurea' -- _Purple_ Wreathe-wort.

    Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

  • This stalk is always twisted once and a half round, as if somebody had been trying to wring the blossom off; and the name of the family, in Proserpina, will therefore be 'Contorta' [49] in Latin, and 'Wreathe-wort' in English.

    Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

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