There was no victor's chaplet more highly prized by the Roman soldier than that woven of the grass of early spring.
Eden's dear bow'rs-- The chaplet that Love had woven!
The Bilva is a shrub consecrated to Mahadeva, who alone wears a chaplet of its flowers, which are offered in sacrifice to no other deity.
I hate the heathenish sort of dress," she exclaimed, "but if it comes to that, I believe that Catherine Sharston will look just as well with a chaplet of leaves round her head as anyone else in the room.
A chapletof silver bay-leaves was to encircle her brow, and the locket and chain were to be put round her neck.
After his success in the Sphacteria affair Cleon induced the people to vote him a chaplet of gold.
Here is the basket of barley-seed mingled with salt, the chaplet and the sacred knife; and there is the fire; so we are only waiting for the sheep.
The red perfumed lamp which always burned before her had been spilled and broken; her altar fire had been quenched, her chaplet had been dashed aside.
One corner of it, and a loop of jasmin chaplet fell over the dingy worn gilt of the coffin frame.
He pointed to a faded chaplet of marigolds around the muzzle, and a red hand printed on the marble below.
And the jogi, naked but not ashamed, still swinging his chaplet of skulls, followed them leisurely; for he knew himself safe in the superstition and the devotion of every woman in India.
Thus have we too often been answered, and shall be again, if we do not prove worthy of the chaplet of freedom, by winning it for ourselves.
Passed the row of noble ladies, Hied him to an humbler seat, And in silence laid the chaplet At the taylzeour's daughter's feet.
Do you know what is the meaning of this chaplet of rings?
Returning to the glass case where she lived, she took out of it a chaplet of rings, and showed it to the princes.
Comfortably seated on his bed, his back supported by some pillows, the ex-professor was rolling the beads of a chaplet between his fingers.
He took up his chaplet again, but once more broke off from his devotions on perceiving Madame Maze, who had just glided into the reserved space--so slender and unobtrusive that she had doubtless slipped under the ropes without being noticed.
One day a certain marchioness endeavoured to secure it by giving her another one which she had brought with her--a chaplet with a golden cross and beads of real pearls.
According to another piece of superstition, the bride, in removing her bridal robe and chaplet at the completion of the marriage ceremonies, must take care to throw away every pin worn on this eventful day.
Brooding no more upon God's wars In his Divine homestead, He would go weave out of the stars A chaplet for your head.
A chapletrewarded the victor, and the honour in which the simple branch which formed the wreath was held is shown by the law permitting it to be laid on the bier of the victor when he died.
Consequently the circle of fellow-competitors became converted into a public of spectators, and the chaplet of the victorious champion, which has been with justice called the badge of Hellas, was afterwards hardly ever mentioned in Latium.
And each wore on her hair loose flowing, a chaplet of blossoms bound With silken band, beneath it their tresses sought the ground.
Under the chapletis inscribed-- "Tell her I burn with noble vestal fire, Tell her she's all I wish or can desire.
Ellis is represented with a chaplet of laurel on his right, and a Cupid drawing his bow on the left.
Long may the chaplet flourish bright, And borrow from the heavens its light!
