Cornucopias

New Thanksgiving cards from American Greetings offer warm wishes with traditional icons of the holiday such as cornucopias, leaves, and festive meals as well as conversational language that expresses gratitude in a real-life way.

We roamed around tables displaying cookies shaped like turkeys and cornucopias. ❋ Linda Robertson (2011)

The path, littered with what appear to be cornucopias, Christmas trees, and crosses, gives the impression of a pseudo-sardonic recollection or a somber journey. ❋ Alexander Adler (2011)

I get lost among the cornucopias of chotkies and tat, and am somehow spilled back out to the main Jemaa El F'na Square, where one charmeurs de serpent pulls me under his black umbrella and wags his head at his Egyptian Cobra actually, Naja haje legionis, a sub-species found in southern Morocco as his associate blows his bagpipe-like melody in his ghaita. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)

The reverse (‘tail’) depicts two overlapping cornucopias (horns-of-plenty) decorated with fillets. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In a glass case, small bronze statuettes represent the household gods—dancing Lares brandishing cornucopias—and other protective deities, including Mercury and the Egyptian goddess Isis. ❋ Judy Fayard (2011)

So bereft were Soviet shelves of anything of value, when the few lucky Soviets got a chance to travel in Western countries, rather than see movies, walk the city streets or simply relax, they "were like coiled springs, leaping at the department store cornucopias of the West." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Along with the stolid yews were froths of flowers and cornucopias of colors swirling together like an ice cream sundae. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Otherwise, on an increasingly overcrowded planet, we are destined to diminish and destroy our quantums of freedom, space, and potential for both market cornucopias and cooperative havens in a sustained peace and plenty. ❋ Unknown (2009)