The king grew pale again, but he was cunning, and he leaped up and embraced the lad, and made much of him, and caused a goldcirclet to be twisted in his hair.
The room was empty, but in a high seat sat, fallen forward and half-asleep, a man in whose grey hair was a circlet of gold and a golden grasshopper.
Whether I did so rightly or wrongly I cannot say, but this I do know, that your magic, be it ever so strong, can avail nothing against that circlet of gold.
There are things which Allah has decreed shall be left alone; and if its history has been handed down to us truly, this golden circlet is one of them.
The circlet is enriched with diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, and rubies.
It is of gold, and consists of two arches crossing at the top, and rising from a rim or circlet of gold, over a cap of crimson velvet, lined with white taffeta, and turned up with ermine.
Bitter tears came now at the delusion which had blighted her young years, tears very different from the sob of remembered happiness with which she had looked at the circlet of pearls and the pink hailstone.
In a tiny gold loop of the circlet a sugar-plum had lodged--a pink hailstone from the shower of sweets: Tito had detected it first, and had said that it should always remain there.
The white silk and gold lay there, the long white veil and the circlet of pearls.
Something drew her to it, and the same feeling of mystery and longing which stole on her when she first held the circlet in her hand while Mortimer was sleeping, overpowered her.
Has its circlet heightened with figures of the stern and the hoisted sail of a ship alternating: No.
The circlet of an Earl’s Coronet has eight lofty rays of gold rising from the circlet, each of which supports a large pearl, while between each pair of these rays there is a golden strawberry-leaf.
The crown of His Majesty the KING has the circlet heightened with four crosses and as many fleurs de lys; from the crosses rise the arches, which are surmounted by a mound and a cross-patée.
The adornment of the regal circlet was arbitrary before the fifteenth century; still, it always was enriched with gems and surmounted by golden foliage.
Other Royal coronets have the circlet heightened with four crosses patée, and as many strawberry leaves.
The circlet from the crown of a king of arms has once at least been granted as a crest coronet, this being in the case of Rogers Harrison.
The coronet of a baron shows four "pearls" upon the circlet (Fig.
The circlet which forms the base is 1-1/2 inches in height.
Knights Grand Commanders and Knights Commanders encircle their shields with the circlet of the order, which is of purple inscribed in letters of gold, with the motto of the order, "Imperatricis auspiciis.
Further, no Companion of an Order is permitted to use the Circlet of the Order, whilst every Companion has his badge.
Knights Grand Cross surround their shields with the circlet of the order, which is of dark blue carrying in letters of gold the motto, "Victoria.
The Chancellor of the Order of St. Patrick is as such entitled to encircle his escutcheon with the ribbon or circlet of that order, from which his official badge depends.
The badge of the eldest son of the Sovereign, as such, and not as Prince of Wales, is the plume of three ostrich feathers, enfiled with the circlet from his coronet.
The coronet of a viscount shows nine "pearls," all set closely together, directly upon thecirclet (Fig.
You might more than doubt that it could have been meant for the departed soul, unless you were aware of the meaning of this little circlet between the feet.
Take this instance at our hands, the trim littlecirclet for the Island of Leuce.
You are looking at these gewgaws,' she said, and took a diamond circlet from her finger.
Issue of fume there followed, edged with flame, And wafting pungent odor from the vent, Which, woven incirclet and in crescent, seemed To knit a melting legend on the air.
First there comes a flood of rosy light, and then a deep bright crimson, like the ruby's flash or the sapphire's blaze, and then a circlet of flaming peaks studs the horizon.
During my stay, the girdling Apennines were tipped with the snows of winter; and when the sun shone out, they formed a gleaming circlet around the green valley, like a ring of silver enclosing an enormous emerald.
And when her sire, Who in his dream of hope already grasped The golden circlet in his hand, rejected 10 My suit with insult, and in memory Of ancient feuds poured curses on my head, Her blessings overtook and baffled them!
But his eyes were upon the heavily-chased circlet of gold.
For answer he slipped the golden circlet over his hand.
At times the call of her vibrated through his every nerve--but he had not forgot the circlet of gold.
The head thereof was girt with a golden circletthrough which appeared another face as of an aged man.
From the neck of the figure on either side sprang a pinion which swept upward above the circlet and joined its fellow on high.
He took up a candle, and held it while I bent and examined the thin red line which ran like a circlet around the flesh of the upper arm just below the apex of the deltoid muscle.
But I have a circlet of diamonds which can enclose all living creatures.
And Laotzse took possession of his diamond circlet again, and returned with Guan Yin to the hall of Heaven.
So he flung his circlet through the air from the heavenly gate, and struck Sun Wu Kung on the head with it.
But, when alone, he rubbed away the verdigris with great care, for the circlet was thin and frail with age, as he examined again the little picture of a tripod from which smoke issued, incised neatly in the metal.
Instead of a ribbon, as he had first supposed, he saw that it was a circlet of bronze, covered with a beautiful green patina and evidently very old.
It was several years afterwards, in a very different setting, that he found himself spelling out slowly to a little boy the lettering cut into a circlet of bronze the child found on his study table.
On her head was the royal circlet of egret plumes nodding above the yellow circlet of the Sun.
She bringeth him there where the Circletof Gold is, and she herself setteth it on his head.
Fair nephew," saith the hermit, "Right glad am I of these tidings that you tell me, for I have been borne on hand that the Knight of the Golden Circlet had slain him.
None may pass thither save only he that goeth to vanquish the knight and win the Golden Circlet and the Graal, and do away the false law with its horns of copper.
Howbeit, and you feel that you may so do battle as to overcome and vanquish him, I will give you the Golden Circlet that is within, and will hold with the New Law that hath been of late established.
Messire Gawain showeth her the Golden Circlet in the casket of ivory, that he kept very nigh himself.
Damsel," saith Messire Gawain, "Be not any longer troubled hereof, for I tell you that the knight that won the Golden Circlet by prize of arms hath killed Nabigant already.
The tidings spread throughout the lands that the Knight of the Golden Circlet had slain the Knight of the Dragon, and great everywhere was the joy thereof.
It was known at the court of King Arthur, but much marvelled they that it was said the Knight of the Golden Circlet had slain him, for they knew not who was the Knight of the Golden Circlet.
The Circlet of Gold was brought to Messire Gawain, but it was not known that it was he; and Messire Gawain would fain that it had been given to my Lord King Arthur.
This knight hath won the Golden Circlet by force of arms, and Messire Gawain nought but shame and reproach.
The Queen told him that she would keep the Golden Circlet until he should will otherwise, and in such sort he left it there, for he would not carry it with him, sith that he knew not whitherward he might turn.
The Damsel of the Circlet of Gold loved him of passing great love with all her might.
Clad in her short tunic, her hair bound to her brow by the gold circlet that Milo had made, she had calculated effects with the art of a Circe.
The gold circlet was discarded, and in its place Dolores placed on her head a turban formed from a stuffed coiled snake, whose neck and head darted hither and thither on cunning springs with her every motion and gesture.
Her gleaming arms and shoulders swept rhythmically over and over, cleaving the sea easily and smoothly, her lustrous hair streaming behind her, and the sun glinting brightly from the gold circlet around her head.
Lifting the lid with reverence, he took out a plain gold circlet and returned to Dolores.
Now her head, with the goldcirclet about the brows, pressed hard against his chin.
The day of the joust being come, forth they rode into the lists, side by side, each in his triple mail and ponderous helm, alike at all points save for the golden circlet upon Duke Beltane's shining casque.
Now Thorkel was setting them above the Danish circlet on Canute's shining locks, while the shouts merged into a roar of acclamation.
Both were finely formed; both were dressed with royal splendor, and the hair of each fell from under a jewelled circlet in uncut lengths of shining fairness.
Now that the royal duellists stood forth together, stripped of cloak and steel shirt, and wearing no other helm than the golden circlet of their rank, their inequality was even more glaring than alarmed fancy had painted it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "circlet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: annulet; corona; crown; eye; eyelet; garland; glory; grommet; loop; luster; ring; ringlet
