- 'Flush'd with a purple Grace | He shews his honest Face' – pointing out Dryden's error: 'Instead of presenting the god returning from his conquest of India, crowned with the vine-leaves, drawn by panthers, and followed by troops of satyrs, wild men and animals he had tamed, he shows him as if he were merely a good-looking youth!' ❋ Unknown (2009)
Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel ❋ Tarie (2008)
The saloon was 300 feet long; it had an arched roof and Gothic cornice, with a moulding below of gilded grapes and vine-leaves. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Eve took up a little plate, daintily garnished with vine-leaves, and set it on the table with a jug full of cream. ❋ Unknown (2007)
She took the freshest vine-leaves and arranged her dish of grapes as coquettishly as a practised house-keeper might have done, and placed it triumphantly on the table. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The master-passion had given a stamp of originality to an ursine physiognomy; his nose had developed till it reached the proportions of a double great-canon A; his veined cheeks looked like vine-leaves, covered, as they were, with bloated patches of purple, madder red, and often mottled hues; till altogether, the countenance suggested a huge truffle clasped about by autumn vine tendrils. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel, ❋ Trinityboy (2007)
She also saw this, and turned as pale as death, and sat trembling before us; and whatso we ate or drank at that board under the rustling vine-leaves, she gave unto us with her own hand; and then we wotted full surely that she had meant our deaths there and then, but was cowed by the fierce eyes of Baudoin and the threat of my hand. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Antique art, or I am much mistaken, shows us many figures of Dionysus himself and his followers with vine-leaves entwined their hair. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I can see him already — with vine-leaves in his hair — flushed and fearless — ❋ Unknown (2006)
After the fashion of young ladies on the continent, she wears no jewels or gimcracks: her only ornament is a wreath of vine-leaves in her hair, with little clusters of artificial grapes. ❋ Unknown (2006)
With vine-leaves in my hair, as you used to dream in the old days —? ❋ Unknown (2006)
There is many a shop-keeper whose sign is a very tolerable picture; and often have we stopped to admire (the reader will give us credit for having remained OUTSIDE) the excellent workmanship of the grapes and vine-leaves over the door of some very humble, dirty, inodorous shop of a marchand de vin. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In Peer Gynt (Act iv.sc. 8), when Peer, having carried off Anitra, finds himself in a particularly festive mood, he cries: “Were there vine-leaves around, I would garland my brow.” ❋ Unknown (2006)
