Laureled

Wesleyan University ranks higher than the oft-laureled University of Chicago. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She has been laureled with awards and grants, including the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To the average fan reading a box score or charting a fantasy league, the kid was having a laureled rookie season. ❋ Jack McCallum (2006)

The latter considerations were only second to his avarice; for, conscious that there was nothing in his person, conduct, character, or accomplishments, to command respect, he was greedy of power, and was, in his heart, as much a tyrant as any laureled conqueror on record. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The realists involved in this extra-legal gambit included George H.W. Bush, Robert Gates, Caspar Weinberger and the much-laureled man of our current day, Colin Powell, who personally ordered the delivery of 4000 TOW anti-tank missiles to Iran. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He took us through into another room, small and completely overwhelmed by a huge wall painting of a laureled Pompey, this time dressed as Jupiter, complete with lightning bolts shooting from his fingers. ❋ Robert Harris (2006)

Holmes, Bryant, Motley, Henry Clay, Dan Webster, and others of the laureled phalanx which has added so great and imperishable a lustre to the literature of the English tongue. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

QUOTATION: The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox. ❋ Unknown (1919)

Not "ashes to ashes, dust to dust," but blossoms to blossoms, laurels to the laureled. ❋ Grenville Kleiser (1910)

Saratoga, and there was a movement to replace Washington by this laureled victor. ❋ George McKinnon Wrong (1904)

Secretary of the Navy wrote to Wilkes his congratulations, Congress voted its thanks to him, governors and judges laureled him with oratory at banquets, he was feasted with meat and drink all over the place, and, though his years were sixty-three, ardent females probably rushed forth from throngs and kissed him with the purest intentions: heroes have no age. ❋ Owen Wister (1899)

The Youth looked no more upon the fair field flowers, but thought only of the victor's wreath; he heard no melody but fame's shrill trumpet rising ever louder on the blast, and saw no beauty but in Minerva's laureled brow; the cool sylvan path became a blinding mountain trail, his hours of dalliance days of toil and nights of agony. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Her life was beautiful and content, but she must often have longed for the old friends and the "laureled avenues" and the "edges of the glorious Goshen Pass lit with the wavering flames of the July rhododendrons." ❋ La Salle Corbell Pickett (1889)

When they had gone the street was alive with explosions of brass, aflame with the burning red cloaks of laureled lictors making way for the coming of Caesar. ❋ Edgar Saltus (1889)

Duped and tricked, he had remained mute before the storm of abuse heaped on him by the General, and his papers sent in, at a momentary summons, had carried him in dishonor out of the band of laureled soldier knights, to dream no more "the dream that martial music weaves!" ❋ Richard Savage (1874)

Only a few weeks earlier one of our ablest generals, now commanding a department in one of our dependencies, a laureled hero of two wars, has officially reported to the Government in favor of steps for the admission of Cuba as a State. ❋ Whitelaw Reid (1874)

His laureled wreaths with this poor tinseled crown -- ❋ Bret Harte (1869)