And no enwreathed children will greet Americans in the streets with lily-white flower petals. ❋ Unknown (2010)
At its center is a circular map of the earth, enwreathed by olive branches on a blue field. ❋ Strobe Talbott (2008)
A Gothic castle almost takes on the role of a central character: 'The lofty battlements, thickly enwreathed with ivy, were half demolished, and become the residence of birds of prey. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Mr. Goodchild looked at Idle, but Idle lay with his head enwreathed in smoke. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The lofty battlements, thickly enwreathed with ivy, were half demolished, and become the residence of birds of prey. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The broken battlements, enwreathed with ivy, proclaimed the fallen grandeur of the place, while the shattered vacant window-frames exhibited its desolation, and the high grass that overgrew the threshold seemed to say how long it was since mortal foot had entered. ❋ Unknown (2004)
One hand held gracefully to his breast the parson makes his bow, his sharp civil features enwreathed in the most disarming of smiles. ❋ Bayley, John (2002)
Mr. O'Shaugnessy yielded the victory; and Mr. O'Flannagan was borne off the field, with his brows enwreathed by the Sunday _shawl_ of a milkwoman, his sweetheart, who witnessed the combat, and crowned the conqueror with her own _fair_ hands. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Furthermore, while maiden Lavinia stands beside her father feeding the altars with holy fuel, she was seen, oh, horror! to catch fire in her long tresses, and burn with flickering flame in all her array, her queenly hair lit up, lit up her jewelled circlet; till, enwreathed in smoke and lurid light, she scattered fire over all the palace. ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)
The sun roasted us by day; mists enwreathed and chilled us by night; a myriad insects bit us, and roaring beasts and lurking reptiles harassed our steps. ❋ Tom Bevan (N/A)
Here the boys and girls used to march in procession on May day, bearing flowers, “with wands called May-gads in their hands, enwreathed with cowslips,” and dance around the Maypole; a relic, as some authorities say, of the Roman Festival of the Floralia; {188d} others say it was a practice introduced by the Danish Vikings, with whom the ❋ James Conway Walter (N/A)
Then lord Anchises enwreathed a great bowl and filled it up with wine; and called on the gods, standing high astern ... ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)
The quick-growing vegetation had enwreathed the trees with gay creepers, but Nick soon found the mark of the axe on the bark. ❋ Tom Bevan (N/A)
She was from the middle-West, and despite the fact that she was married, and that twenty-one half-blown blush roses had enwreathed her last birthday cake, she had the alert, quizzical brightness of a child who challenges everybody and everything that passes with the countersign -- "Why?" ❋ Dorothy Quigley (N/A)
Camping ground at night was almost unobtainable, and thick, poisonous mists enwreathed the boats during the hours of darkness, fevering the men's blood, cramping and stiffening their limbs. ❋ Tom Bevan (N/A)
And the heroes in their hands wielded their spears for war, lest first a host of foes should burst upon them for battle unawares, and, their heads enwreathed with leafy sprays, all in harmony, while Orpheus 'harp rang clear, sang the marriage song at the entrance to the bridal chamber. ❋ Apollonius Rhodius (N/A)
A crown of earthly splendour might have enwreathed his brow, ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Cooper, amid the lovely scenes of "Magnolia," Charleston's city of the dead, there stands a marble shaft enwreathed in the folds of the rattlesnake, the symbol of Revolutionary patriotism, and beneath it rests all that was mortal of William Washington and Jane Elliott his wife. ❋ Various (N/A)
