wreath

• For a long time I kept just such a wreath as a remembrance, and its withered leaves roused melancholy reflections some years later, for during the war every tree of the Chantilly wood had been felled; the wreath was all that remained of the magnificent oak forest. —  Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
• The woman has in one hand a laurel-wreath; hidden in the leaves of this wreath is a dagger with which she is about to deal the victim a fatal blow. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
• He ceremoniously decorated our boat's bows with a large laurel-wreath, and so—her stem adorned with laurels, and the large silk "Union Jack" trailing over her stern— the little mahogany Oxford-built boat paddled through the lines of her French competitors. —  The Days Before Yesterday
• Okra mussed up her unogreishly blond hair so that it would better hide the IQ vine circlet she wore as a wreath, and went inside. —  The Color of Her Panties
• The honor of the wreath was the only distinction which he had accepted from the Senate with pleasure. —  Caesar: A Sketch

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