vine-leaves

- 'Flush'd with a purple Grace | He shews his honest Face' – pointing out Dryden's error: 'Instead of presenting the god returning from his conquest of India, crowned with the vine-leaves, drawn by panthers, and followed by troops of satyrs, wild men and animals he had tamed, he shows him as if he were merely a good-looking youth!'

'William Hazlitt:The First Modern Man' 2009

Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel

Archive 2008-12-01 Tarie 2008

Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel

Poetry Friday: The Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot Tarie 2008

She also saw this, and turned as pale as death, and sat trembling before us; and whatso we ate or drank at that board under the rustling vine-leaves, she gave unto us with her own hand; and then we wotted full surely that she had meant our deaths there and then, but was cowed by the fierce eyes of Baudoin and the threat of my hand.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

Eve took up a little plate, daintily garnished with vine-leaves, and set it on the table with a jug full of cream.

Two Poets 2007

The saloon was 300 feet long; it had an arched roof and Gothic cornice, with a moulding below of gilded grapes and vine-leaves.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Eve took up a little plate, daintily garnished with vine-leaves, and set it on the table with a jug full of cream.

Two Poets 2007

She took the freshest vine-leaves and arranged her dish of grapes as coquettishly as a practised house-keeper might have done, and placed it triumphantly on the table.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

The master-passion had given a stamp of originality to an ursine physiognomy; his nose had developed till it reached the proportions of a double great-canon A; his veined cheeks looked like vine-leaves, covered, as they were, with bloated patches of purple, madder red, and often mottled hues; till altogether, the countenance suggested a huge truffle clasped about by autumn vine tendrils.

Two Poets 2007

The master-passion had given a stamp of originality to an ursine physiognomy; his nose had developed till it reached the proportions of a double great-canon A; his veined cheeks looked like vine-leaves, covered, as they were, with bloated patches of purple, madder red, and often mottled hues; till altogether, the countenance suggested a huge truffle clasped about by autumn vine tendrils.

Two Poets 2007