laurel-wreath

He began to mint his own coins with a palm branch stamped on one side and a Roman laurel-wreath crown on the other.

The Jesus Dynasty James D. Tabor 2006

He began to mint his own coins with a palm branch stamped on one side and a Roman laurel-wreath crown on the other.

The Jesus Dynasty James D. Tabor 2006

Her mother had been used to wear a Roman scarf thrown over a pair of shoulders timorously bared of their tight black velvet (oh the old clothes!) and a gold laurel-wreath set upon a multitude of glossy ringlets.

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

This gave the addition of no small joy to the solemnity; and while the soldiers clashed their arms and shouted, the officers again crowned Marius with a laurel-wreath, and he thus set fire to the pile, and finished his sacrifice.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Then he waited at the window, looking out at the gold laurel-wreath that stirred as if alive in the breeze of the Middle Sea.

Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

The gold laurel-wreath above the tomb of Alexander had caught the sun.

Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

One day recently there was laid before his monument in the Botanical Garden of Marburg a laurel-wreath with the inscription: "To the great naturalist, philosopher and man."

At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers Eberhard Dennert

Why should they bring the laurel-wreath, -- why crown the cup with wine?

The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty

And did they twine the laurel-wreath, for those who fought so well?

The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty

The well-earned laurel-wreath of many a bloody field,

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various