Circlets

In Victorian times, royal European brides often wore wreaths or circlets of bead flowers and carried bead bouquets on their wedding day. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He could have sworn it once belonged to an Englishman, and to an Englishman of long before by token of the heavy gold circlets still threaded in the withered ear-lobes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And Sara had some long-skirted, medieval-looking dresses she wore, and of course Luke would have saved one of his wildflower circlets for her hair. ❋ Jude Deveraux (2010)

The first few gifts are unremarkable — a partridge in a pear tree, two turtledoves — but when we come to "5 gold rings," it's delightful to see them depicted as the circlets around the neck of a pretty South African girl. ❋ Meghan Cox Gurdon (2010)

Her own eyes were fastened on her mother and stepfather, both in Whites with the royal circlets about their brows, both standing before their thrones, with Heralds flanking them on either hand. and Guards behind the Heralds. ❋ R. Daniel Lester (2010)

The ghost got up gracefully and at once started doing standing pirouettes, the linen whipping up in errant waves sinusoidal, sending ripples of air circlets, crowning the room. ❋ Unknown (2009)

 Heh… Simultaneously the vault holding the Sinestro Corps power rings bursts open sending little circlets of fear out into the universe again. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Pineapple tarts come in two forms, open-faced circlets (as in the picture above) or enclosed parcels. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Majestically lifting one hand, she changed their nightgowns into elegantly simple, diaphanous, flowing gowns and caused circlets of wildflowers and leaves to appear around their heads. ❋ Suzanne Weyn (2008)

Down a steep hill side they flew, with their costly tunics and embroidered trousers — some with the circlets round their necks, and bracelets on their arms — in an instant, they had sprung into the miry clay, and in less time than one could have conceived, they had landed the wagons safe on terra firma. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I had a glimpse of glittering garments, jewels gleaming in circlets of gold. ❋ Cameron Dokey (2007)

Yet am I glad this violent spirit can thus creep; that, like a poisonous serpent, he can thus coil himself, and hide his head in his own narrow circlets; because this stooping, this abasement, gives me hope that no farther mischief will ensue. ❋ Unknown (2006)

No, the warriors longed for the small circlets of laurel leaves brought from the trees beneath Mount Olympos and placed on the heads of the champions. ❋ Gemmell, David (2006)

That is the sort of thing which will be appropriate if we have such strains at all; and let the apparel of the singers be, not circlets and ornaments of gold, but the reverse. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They wore sandals, golden breast-plates, and scanty silk skirts supported by gem-crusted girdles, and their black manes, cut square at their naked shoulders, were bound with silver circlets. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

They wore sandals, gold breast-plates, and scanty silk skirts supported by gem-crusted girdles, and their black manes, cut square at their shoulders, were confined by silver circlets. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)