< 33.5 > i.e. the lady gathers the flowers, and binds them in her hair with a silken fillet, making of them a kind of chaplet or crown. From Wordnik.com. [The Lucasta Poems] Reference
And what though the chaplet be crimsoned with gore. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
On its head she placed her chaplet instead of diadem. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference
Quick then, take the chaplet, for time's running short. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
Crowned with a victor's chaplet within the gates of gold. From Wordnik.com. [Home Lyrics] Reference
I am going to take this chaplet myself and speak in your name. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
May Zeus destroy you, both you and your chaplet of wild olive!. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
Did she remember that day, when she had been queen of the chaplet?. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Even Tiberius Cæsar wore a chaplet of laurel leaves about his neck. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
She had been sitting on the ground weaving a chaplet of beech leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest] Reference
Slave! bring the chaplet and water, which you must pour over my hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
A chaplet of Pennyroyal was considered admirable for clearing the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Down the long street she passed, with her chaplet of beads and her missal. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Ursula wore woodland green, with a chaplet of heather about her glorious hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
But for the absurdity of it, he could have woven a chaplet of them and worn it. From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Knot of Human Fate] Reference
A child dressed like a cupid, with a chaplet of flowers in its hand, was handed to the. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Pass me the chaplet; I wish to speak again, for I think I have got hold of something good. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
Mr. Speaker, the other day in this very Hall I laid a chaplet on the bier of a dead comrade. From Wordnik.com. [Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session] Reference
Did she look (reft of her lover) at a face gone white under the chaplet of white virgin-breath?. From Wordnik.com. [American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany] Reference
Catching up the fan and chaplet that her woman had let fall she made as though to run past him. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
The Duchess offended me much by coming with a couronne civique, which is a chaplet of oak leaves. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
We meet only an embarrassment of choice when we start to unstring the chaplet of our carking cares. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
The road cleaner comes along at his rare intervals and sweeps the chaplet into the hole for refuse. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
No, but if you worry me I will take off your chaplet, and then you will only get a sounder thrashing. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
His head was encircled with a chaplet made of the feathers of the song-sparrow and the red-headed-woodpecker. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
King Charles II. granted to the barons a coronet, having six large pearls set at equal distances on the chaplet. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Hyrtacus; and Mnestheus follows on him, but now conqueror in the ship race, Mnestheus with his chaplet of green olive. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
"Do so, dear boy, and I shall be only too rejoiced to make the chaplet, and to place it with my own hands on your head.". From Wordnik.com. [Amos Huntingdon] Reference
The mountains which I said these countries have to the north, form nearly the figure of a chaplet, with one end pretty near the. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
Her cheeks were like almond blossoms and a white veil caught around her head by a carved silver chaplet, fell over her shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
"His coldness, then," laughed the other, as the musicians began to play, and the winner of the chaplet led the princess to the dance. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
America gladly tenders her most gracious homage to these devoted men, and hastens to add her leaf to the chaplet which binds their brow. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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