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And wreath'd like knotted snakes, around the brows
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 539, March 24, 1832 Various
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Still wreath'd with pride, "still uttered with a tear!"
Washington's Birthday Robert Haven Schauffler 1921
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And of all the "wreath'd singers at the marriage-door," blithest and sanest was Master Joctus of Florence.
Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Which, laughing this bright morn, thou brought and wreath'd
Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems Isabella Valancy Crawford 1868
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Huge buttonwood trees embower'd it round about, and there was a long porch in front, the trellis'd work whereof, though old and moulder'd, had been, and promised still to be for years, held together by the tangled folds of a grape vine wreath'd about it like a tremendous serpent.
Pieces in Early Youth, 1834-'42 ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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Huge buttonwood trees embower'd it round about, and there was a long porch in front, the trellis'd work whereof, though old and moulder'd, had been, and promised still to be for years, held together by the tangled folds of a grape vine wreath'd about it like a tremendous serpent.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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He dipp'd in wine, then wreath'd with poplar crown,
The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace 65 BC-8 BC Horace 1847
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And, wreath'd in smoke, the savour rose to Heav'n.
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834
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'Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreath'd'; fierce fellows who understood no Greek, and, what was worse, no joking, but well understood the use of the scymitar.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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With cypress branches hast thou wreath'd thy bowers,
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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