His relative conferred upon her surviving children a sum of money to ensure their education--an act of uncommon generosity which must obliterate the discredit of a relationship to one, who, however, perhaps blended insanity and deliberate crime Footnote 73: Parliamentary Papers Footnote 74: "What chaplets are woven for men of slaughter!— The History of Tasmania , Volume II
Kühner_. Having no flowers or green herbs to make chaplets, which the Greeks wore at feasts, they used hay CHAPTER VI The Greeks leave the villages under conduct of a guide, who, on being struck by Cheirisophus, deserts them.— The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Barry of ten, three chaplets--Greystock 10.— The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See
Barry of ten, three chaplets--Greystock 9.— The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See
Their stalks are long, and the flowers 'nod' upon them, so that I see how the Greeks could make them into chaplets--how Lycidas wore his crown of white violets[5] lying by the fireside elbow-deep in withered asphodel, watching the chestnuts in the embers, and softly drinking deep healths to Ageanax far off upon the waves.— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series

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