That, to the sparkling crown Urania wears, And to her sister Clio's laurel wreath, Preferr'st a garland culled from purple heath!
After they had duly rested, they were still detained by unfavorable winds, until all their provisions were exhausted, and the few birds and fishes they managed to secure no longer sufficed to still the pangs of hunger.
I visited The ceaseless wonders of this ocean-bed.
In the mean while, Lampetia had hastened to Apollo to apprise him of the crime committed by Ulysses' men.
A daughter of Jupiter and Leda (whom Jove had courted in the guise of a snow-white swan), Helen had many suitors who ardently strove to win her favor.
Latin text of the Bible, mostly culled from the commentaries of Rabanus, were extremely popular, and continued in use throughout the Middle Ages as an exegetical handbook.
The synod condemned as heretical a series of statements culled from his writings by Bernard.
It is undeniable that Jonson, to raise a laugh against Marston, puts into Clove's mouth grotesque words culled from The Scourge of Villainy.
It seemed as if the authors of these effusions must have run through dictionaries of complimentary terms, which they culled lavishly and inserted among the acts and facts of her life with a kind of journalistic sleight-of-hand.
But she was like a magnificent bouquet culled from the gardens of wisdom and beauty; a thing of but temporary value, whose fragrance must soon be scattered, whose glory must soon pass away.
And I've come to seek one flower here, Just one, in its fading bloom, Though it must be culled with a gushing tear From a parent's grassy tomb.
Several heterogeneous colored prints culled from out-of-date newspapers and calendars are tacked on the rain-stained walls.
Of course she knew one always did ultimately meet one's future mother-in-law, but the prompt and dutiful way in which Roger brought out his suggestion seemed like a sentence culled from some Early Victorian book.
Let Greece his fiery lyric breathe Above her hero-urns; And Scotland, with her holly, wreathe The flower he culled for Burns.
Bless the young bands that culled the gift, And bless the hearts that prompted it; If undeserved it comes, at least It seems not all unfit.
The world of fashion in Sidney's age culled their phrases out of "The Arcadia," which served them as a complete "Academy of Compliments.
Such were the first weak steps of the fathers of our language, who, however, culled for us many a flower among their cockle.
Even to so late a period as the days of Erasmus, every Latin word was culled with a classical superstition; and a week of agony was exhausted on a page finely inlaid with a mosaic of phrases.
He has culled the flowers, skimmed the cream, and extracted the very quintessence of those elegant productions with equal industry and success.
He culled and rejected, and culled and rejected until he made his final selection for the last test.
Mr. Fantom was a shallow man, who glided upon the surface of philosophy and culled those precepts which relieved his conscience from any moral obligations.
All the odd characters which Miss Burney culled from the lower ranks of society were swept away by Miss Austen.
As I had duly culled information from the natives, I lost no time in breakfasting, but drove off, bun in hand, to explore the country of the Druids.
He very neatly fitted into his mosaic word-pictures the titbits he had culled in his commonplace-book out of many poets, and so utilised them.
When she spoke of him, it was generally to recall some happy incident which had happened in their secluded life, little things culled from the store-closet of her precious memories.
Pale, mystic, and eternal, a holy dew of wonder seemed to fall upon my shoulders, the Peace of God is not of this world, nor can it be culled from the joys of life.
I never heard of this being done in England, but in Shropshire it is often culled in the farmhouses to put in muslin bags, in the place of lavender.
He also explained that the passages culled from his own writings were torn from their historical context, and hence misinterpreted.
Many arpeggio forms of value may be culled from compositions.
When you have culled the best that all these can show, you may reckon that you have a style.
No'em, no church, no meetin hous fo usculled people in Kentucky befo' de wah.
Nevah no church fo' culled people does I 'member in Natchez.
But now a culled man ain't so much better off 'bout votin' an such some places yet, ah hears dat.
He tol what all Lincoln had done fo de culled man.
Much of this Eastern forest area is not only culled of its best timber, but burnt over, and thereby deteriorated in its composition, the inferior Balsam Fir appearing in largest number in the reproduction.
Hence, the State forests were rented out under a system of time rent or a perpetual license, the renters after exploiting the timber usually subletting the culled woods merely for the pasture, except where coppice could be profitably utilized.
From his writings in the Beffroi de Bruges, the Gazette des Beaux Arts, and elsewhere, we have culled the notes here set down on the history of Gerard David and the histories of the pictures he painted.
The following curious account of the "Grand Northern Railway Post-Office," as it was called, is culled from the Penny Magazine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "culled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
