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Example sentences for "chaplets"

Lexicographically close words:
chaplaincy; chaplaine; chaplains; chapleine; chaplet; chapmen; chapparal; chapped; chappie; chappies
  1. The Egyptians wreathed their dead in chaplets of the sacred lotus to prepare their spirits for entrance into the presence of the great Osiris.

  2. Now the bride and bridegroom were crowned with chaplets of flowers, and the day was wound up with dance, music, and refreshments.

  3. Attired in mantles all the knights were seen, That gratified the view with cheerful green: Their chaplets of their ladies' colours were, Composed of white and red, to shade their shining hair.

  4. Before the merry troop the minstrels played; All in their masters' liveries were arrayed, And clad in green, and on their temples wore The chaplets white and red their ladies bore.

  5. Formerly it was called Rosmarinus coronarius because of its use in chaplets and garlands, with which the principal guests at feasts were crowned.

  6. The Athenian magistrates wore chaplets of the fragrant shrub in token of their authority; and bloodless victors entwined Myrtle with their Laurel wreaths.

  7. In Northern India garlands of the African Marigold are placed on the trident emblem of Mahadeva, and both male and female worshippers wear chaplets composed of the same sacred flower on his festivals.

  8. Myrtle chaplets were worn by her attendants, the Graces, and by her votaries when sacrificing to her.

  9. Thus, as Horace tells us, the floral chaplets worn by guests at feasts were tied with the bark of the Linden to prevent intoxication.

  10. From an anecdote related by Pliny we learn that it was a frequent custom, common to both Greeks and Romans, to mix the flowers of their chaplets in their wine, when they pledged the healths of their friends.

  11. Plutarch relates, that when Agesilaus visited Egypt, he was so delighted with the chaplets of Papyrus sent him by the king, that he took some home when he returned to Sparta.

  12. Chaplets of Parsley and Rue were worn to keep off evil spirits.

  13. According to Plutarch, the dead were crowned with chaplets of Henbane, and their tombs decorated with the baneful plant, which, for some unknown reason, was also employed to form the chaplets of victors at the Olympic games.

  14. The Brahmin women, who burn themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands, deck their persons with chaplets and garlands, and present wreaths to the young women who attend them at this terrible sacrifice.

  15. The Emperor Vespasian was the first to take chaplets of Cinnamon to Rome, wherewith to decorate the temples of the Capitol and of Peace.

  16. The chaplets were woven of artificial flowers.

  17. We believe in them for the moment, and waste laughter and tears, chaplets and sackcloth, upon them.

  18. Some old writer relates that, when Agesilaus was in Egypt, he was so charmed with a kind of crowns and chaplets which he saw in use there, formed to resemble flowers, that he carried many of them home with him to Sparta.

  19. The most illustrious and wealthy of the citizens followed in the procession with chaplets on their heads, calling Sulla their saviour and father, inasmuch as through him they were restored to their country, their children, and their wives.

  20. Even then at the beginning, when chaplets were being woven for her, she might have written that later recital of her secular creed: “To fear not possible failure Nor covet the game at all.

  21. These were the dark chaplets and fragrant posies the Muses love: no canopies and red carpets and the blare of jazz.

  22. Upon the green the virgins wait, In rosy chaplets gay, Till Morn unbar her golden gate, And give the promised May.

  23. Sometimes the lord himself set forth such arms in a formal grant, as when the baron of Greystock grants to Adam of Blencowe a shield in which his own three chaplets are charges.

  24. Yet will I cull the summer's choicest bloom; Funereal chaplets shall my time employ, And wither daily on my Arthur's tomb.

  25. No more gay chaplets on his forehead bind?

  26. They were clad in garments of the whitest silk, and profusely adorned with chaplets of flowers.

  27. The robes were not embroidered with gold and silver; they were not studded with emeralds and diamonds; but were adorned on every side with chaplets of the fairest and freshest flowers.

  28. By way of ornament, the men rang the changes on chaplets and armlets made from the inner bark of a tree, and necklaces and girdles of cord, in which was twisted some bright yellow material of a straw-like nature.

  29. They rained immortal chaplets down, Which hands celestial twine, And softly shed upon his head Pure Amrit, drink divine.

  30. Their lovely chaplets dry and dead, Their courts unswept, with dust o’erspread, The temples of the Gods to-day No more look beautiful and gay.

  31. On passed the tamer of his foes, While well clad dames, in crowded rows, Each chamber lattice thronged to view, And chaplets on the hero threw.

  32. On tower and temple porch and gate Let banners wave in royal state, And be each roof and terrace lined With blossoms loose and chaplets twined.

  33. The arms of Morrison were, or, on a chief, gules, three chaplets of the first.

  34. From the convex surface of the pocket hang long chaplets of grains of sand strung together with slender silken cords.

  35. Upon the green the virgins wait, In rosy chaplets gay, Till morn unbar her golden gate, And give the promised May.

  36. I strangely long to know Whether the noble chaplets wear Those that their mistress' scorn did bear Or those that were used kindly.

  37. Pearl Mosque; the reckless hoofs sent a squatting bronze image of a gardener, threading jasmine chaplets for his gods peacefully in the pathway, flying into a rose bush.

  38. And suddenly the thought came that Zora would have worn the chaplets heedlessly; there would have been no sentimentality over withered flowers on her part.

  39. Three bridges hung their double chaplets of lights over the dark river.

  40. And Pierre overheard him saying in a subdued tone: "Why didn't you bring me my three-dozen chaplets this morning?

  41. And still the poet made for her little chaplets of song, to deck her forehead in the courts of Time: and still she wore instead the worthless garlands, that boisterous citizens flung to her in the ways, made out of perishable things.

  42. And after a while whenever these garlands died the poet came to her with his chaplets of song; and still she laughed at him and wore the worthless wreaths, though they always died at evening.


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