flower-laden

• “A flower-laden hearse arrived and within moments, we heard the sounds of a small brass band leading mourners into the church.”

  John Landis: India in Mourning: My Week in Mumbai and Goa

• “Each evening, amidst a cacophony of all-night fireworks, the public flocks to the riverbank to offer beautiful flower-laden banana leaf and candle flotillas into the water.”

  Photo Journeys: Alison Wright: Thailand: Loy Krathong Festival

• “Such men rule orderly in their cities of fair women: great riches and wealth follow them: their sons exult with ever-fresh delight, and their daughters in flower-laden bands play and skip merrily over the soft flowers of the field.”

  Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

• “Only at evening, as he returns from the chase, he sounds his note, playing sweet and low on his pipes of reed: not even she could excel him in melody — that bird who in flower-laden spring pouring forth her lament utters honey-voiced song amid the leaves.”

  Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

• “A dozen stout men carried a flower-laden mantel atop which was a huge statue of Señor de los Golpes, the Christ of Blows, who is flagellated during the many ceremonies surrounding Easter.”

  Link to an article on SMA, and another magical evening

• “He walked home, not by the straightest road, but taking a considerable curve, round by narrow lanes, and through thick flower-laden hedges, — very thoughtful.”

  Framley Parsonage

• “And once, as that bereaved mother came in the dusk to weep beside the grave, did she not see a shadowy figure start up black-robed from the flower-laden sod, and hastily drawing a thick veil over a beautiful despairing face, glide away among the trees?”

  Red Pottage

• “There was, for example, that unfortunate afternoon when, going to the bedroom to wash his hands, he found that he had blundered in on a confabulation with the midwife, come to pay her visit of ceremony: a burly, big-bosomed female, of a type hitherto unknown to him, her top crowned by a vast, flower-laden hat.”

  Two Tales of Old Strasbourg

• “While giving way to reflection, she skirted the flower-laden hedge, and discovering a moonlike, cavelike, entrance, she stepped in.”

  Hung Lou Meng

• “While this conversation continued, they reached the shoaly inlet under the flower-laden beech.”

  Hung Lou Meng

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