laurel

• With those advantages having learned the art of versifying, he declared himself a poet; and his claim to the laurel was allowed But by a critick of a later generation, who takes up his book without any favourable prejudices, the praise already received will be thought sufficient; for his works do not show him to have had much comprehension from nature, or illumination from learning. —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
• Only the cedar, the pine, the spruce, the holly, and the laurel were awake all seven nights. —  Myths and Legends of the Great Plains
• The laurel was the emblem of victory among the Romans. —  The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
• The bust that had won both stood in the hall crowned with laurel--an Italian peasant woman, with sweet, gentle face, in which there lingered the memories of the patient eyes that had lulled the child to sleep in the old days in the alley. —  Children of the Tenements
• It was my custom to visit her whenever the laurel was in bloom; and as the season approached, she would write me a note, saying, 'Gore House expects you, for the laurel has begun to blossom.' —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866

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