Noun : a wreath of clouds. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : a face wreathed in smiles. From Dictionary.com.
I have spoken of Winthrop, but a thousand hearts will supply each its own name wreathed with cypress and laurel. From Wordnik.com. [Gala-days] Reference
"What is that for?" asked Pryor, pointing to a sword wreathed in a garland of flowers, tattooed on the man's arm. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Horizon] Reference
My porter's wife came up just now, wreathed in smiles. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And the maiden's face was wreathed in a wondrous smile. From Wordnik.com. [Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens] Reference
Hugo Van Diest returned to the table wreathed in smiles. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
A sword with myrtle-branches wreathed for ever in my hand. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
After a rest in the flower-wreathed verandah of his home, and. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
The sword with which he wounded was wreathed deep with flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
For Nature's face is wreathed in smiles nor wears a single frown. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
And a kind of network, and chain work wreathed together with wonderful art. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 11: 3 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
We were peony petals - tucked away in the quiet, wreathed and curved together. From Wordnik.com. [596 Rippey Street] Reference
Giddy Mounteagle's face is wreathed in smiles as she talks animatedly to Eleanor. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
Branch from moss-grown fir-tree "a cornice wreathed with purple-starred tapestry". From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Dead men lay at their feet, but honour, with its laurel crown, wreathed their heads!. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
But just twelve hours later he appeared at the White House, his face wreathed in smiles. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
His arms hung down, his eyes were very dreamy, his lips were wreathed into a faint wistful smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
A huge, black frock coat hung in festoons over his globular form, his scarlet face was wreathed in smiles. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
The faces of the audience were still wreathed in that expression you may catch on a few faces at Carnegie Hall. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
He leaned against one of the rose-wreathed pillars of the pergola and gazed negligently in the direction Sara indicated. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Then his lord, grieving bitterly, raised the beloved form in his arms, and, changing it to Ivy, wreathed it around his brow. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"I have prepared a number as an introduction to the festival: they are in the garden, ladies, already wreathed with flowers!". From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
Lying back in a low wicker chair, beneath a large oak, whose trunk was wreathed with ivy, she read or thought the hours away. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A crowd of high-class babies, also bedizened and spangled, follows in perambulators wreathed with flowers, and pushed by their. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
The columns in the chapel were wreathed with ivy and lilies, and every thing was very quiet and pleasant in the bright forenoon. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
Jake of course knew for whom he was to work and came into the kitchen to his first meal with his face wreathed in a sheepish grin. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
Christmas Tree could not hold them all, so they were put on a table before the throne and wreathed around with holly and with pine. From Wordnik.com. [The Story-teller] Reference
With this resolution he ran fleetly down the slopes of the park, now wreathed in the rising mists of night, towards the feudal village of. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
With sickening dread he searched in the corners; he found them: A. A., wreathed around with forget-me-nots, all in delicate French embroidery. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
His face was wreathed in a wide grin -- a grin that seemed to make fun of the grayish pallor of his face and the ominous appearance of his wild garb. From Wordnik.com. [The White Feather Hex] Reference
A soft smile wreathed the colorless lips, but the beautiful blue eyes were closed in slumber, and she looked as if she were resting after a hard-fought battle. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Lady] Reference
It was a revival of the old May-day ceremonies in London, when the milkmaids wreathed their buckets with flowers, and passed from door to door, singing and asking presents. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
"Yes, wreathed with flowers, as was the custom, I believe, in Arcadia; but I feared it would attract attention in the town, and I left it," said Jacques, with lamblike innocence. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
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