He raised her carefully, bore her to the foot of a great laurel-tree, and taking his cloak, placed her on it, and bent over her in agony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

The ruins of the old well are still visible, and a laurel-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America] Reference

The cactus guarded with thorns, the laurel-tree with large white flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman] Reference

The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Longings for Home] Reference

The cactus, guarded with thorns -- the laurel-tree, with large white flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems By Walt Whitman] Reference

Apollo is seen at the foot of a laurel-tree weeping, accompanied by two minstrels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old English Sports] Reference

'On Monday she tore her frock by climbing a laurel-tree, to look at a blackbird's nest.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scenes and Characters] Reference

Islands, particularly Amboyna, and attains the height of a laurel-tree, and no verdure is ever seen under it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

It was more particularly sacred to Apollo, because, according to the fable, the nymph Daphne was changed into a laurel-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

To her companion she gleamed, as if a wood - thing, a hamadryad, had slipped out from the laurel-tree and come to dine with him in the dusk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories] Reference

Just as she was about to be overtaken she prayed for aid, and was immediately changed into a laurel-tree, which became the favourite tree of the disappointed lover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old English Sports] Reference

Moses Moore had certainly promised Betty to rise soon after dawn on the following morning, and go to Lavender House to carry off the basket from under the laurel-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [A World of Girls The Story of a School] Reference

An ancient laurel-tree – in Brittany the laurels become immense trees – had been uprooted in a thunderstorm and had fallen across the Styx, making a natural rustic bridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago] Reference

There, beneath a laurel-tree, he had beheld -- and from her hand had received upon his brow water from the sacred fount, -- a woman of a beauty grave and sublime: the Muse of Parnassus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference

The three girls scampered down the back avenue, where they found five of their companions, among them Susan Drummond, standing in different attitudes of expectation near a very large and low-growing laurel-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [A World of Girls The Story of a School] Reference

There was Daphne, too, who disdained the love of Apollo himself, and would never listen to a word of his suit, but fled like Syrinx, and prayed like Syrinx for escape; but Daphne was changed into a fair laurel-tree, held sacred by Apollo forever after.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew] Reference

The sound of a spring upon the quiet height had reached his ear, murmuring more musically than any spring heard theretofore; stars had appeared in multitude, dancing among the boughs overhead, until, instead of golden fruit, the laurel-tree had swarmed with a host of stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference

The bride held in one hand a green twig of the laurel-tree, and in the other an ear of corn -- the twig indicated she would preserve her fame ever fair and sweet as the laurel leaf; the corn was to represent her capacity to grow it and prepare it for his food, and to fulfil all the duties of a faithful wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest] Reference

As a sower, Letitia scattered the seed from which hero and warrior were to spring forth, and the grain which fell into the heart of her little Napoleon found a good soil, and grew and prospered, and became a laurel-tree, which adorned the whole family of the Bonapartes with the blooming crown of immortality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon] Reference

Marsilius, as well as Gan, was appalled at this omen; but on assembling his soothsayers they came to the conclusion that the laurel-tree turned the omen against the Emperor, the successor of the Caesars, though one of them renewed the consternation of Gan by saying that he did not understand the meaning of the tree of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends of Charlemagne] Reference

9 And she saw a laurel-tree and sat under it, and prayed unto the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Volume 2, the Protevanglion] Reference

"The basket has come; it's under the thick laurel-tree in the back avenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [A World of Girls The Story of a School] Reference

A man was looking from the laurel-tree as jealously as if he could have eaten you.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wessex Tales] Reference

"Sometimes I dream of that laurel-tree, and then I wake with joy in my heart and verses humming in my brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The God of Love] Reference

"Well," said the old man, soothingly, as he plucked a leaf from the laurel-tree above them and dipped it in the spring, "let us dismiss the riddles of belief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blue Flower] Reference

Some one told her of this, and she said, "Love's equal realm knows no divisions," 1 and in her pity she said, "By that pond there stands a laurel-tree, and on its branches there hangs a drum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aya No Tsuzumi] Reference

She dreamed that I stood a shepherd beneath a laurel-tree, and strove to gather the leaves thereof, and failed in my strivings and fell, and rose again, and lo! no longer a man, but a peacock, a glory of gold and purple. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The God of Love] Reference

The bride held in one hand a green twig of the laurel-tree, and in the other an ear of corn ” the twig indicated she would preserve her fame ever fair and sweet as the laurel leaf; the corn was to represent her capacity to grow it and prepare it for his food, and to fulfil all the duties of a faithful wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memories of Fifty Years]

Nothing but a laurel-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Few Figs from Thistles] Reference

As icicles about a laurel-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [0 105. From "Zophiel" by Maria Gowen Brooks. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference

"Here we go round the laurel-tree.".    From Wordnik.com.  [American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany] Reference

We have a great laurel-tree beside our house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference

This damask drum that hangs on the laurel-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aya No Tsuzumi] Reference

Plucked a leaf from the laurel-tree above them and dipped it in the spring, "let us dismiss the riddles of belief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blue Flower] Reference

Safe in the shelter of her laurel-tree! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference