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Example sentences for "garland"

Lexicographically close words:
gari; garish; garishly; garisons; garita; garlande; garlanded; garlanding; garlands; garlic
  1. The Fairy Queen was 'fairer in his eye than the Nine Muses, and Hobgoblin did run away with the garland from Apollo.

  2. The marble garland seems, With braided leaf and bloom, To deck the palace of our dreams As if it were a tomb.

  3. Call buried hope to put life's garland on, and limping woes to trip like Nereids on a moonlit shore!

  4. This heaven-spot, this nesting place of love, Hung like a garland 'tween the sea and rocks!

  5. Hope came forward at the mention of her name, holding in her hand the half-finished garland which she had been twining for one of the Graces.

  6. The starry group sang heavenly anthems to refresh her, and Love twined a fresh garland for her brow.

  7. On opening their door the next morning, their eyes were gladdened by a lovely garland which hung on the knob.

  8. A characteristic treatise of this sort is the Poetria of the Englishman John of Garland (c.

  9. Homer Horace Hermas Hesiod Heywood, John Isidore of Seville Isocrates James I James VI Jerome John of Garland John of Salisbury Jonson, Ben Julian Kechermann Lactantius Langhorne Lipisius Livy Lodge Lombardus, B.

  10. It was a garland of leaves and flowers two spans in width, which same was hung upon a stake in front of a broad tree trunk.

  11. Then a garland was set up at the far end of the glade, and thereat the bowmen shot, and such shooting was done that day as it would have made one's heart leap to see.

  12. The first shaft he shot split a piece from the stake on which the garland was hung; the second lodged within an inch of the other.

  13. I warrant thou art safe to hit the garland thyself, or thou wouldst not be so free of his cuffing.

  14. Set up a garland at the end of the glade.

  15. Which wears the garland that shall never fade, Sweet with fair memories that can never die?

  16. Fall on a star in thy garland of light, Sound but one bugle-blast!

  17. Two things preoccupied him as he went: the aspect of the gallows at Montfaucon in this bright windy phase of the night's existence, for one; and for another, the look of the dead man with his bald head and garland of red curls.

  18. A flat smile illuminated his face; his bald head shone rosily in a garland of red curls; his little protuberant stomach shook with silent chucklings as he swept in his gains.

  19. Be the garland of hope withered by the sigh of disappointment; be the lute of gladness no more responsive to the fingers of melody.

  20. The bride stretched out her arms and caught Sten round the neck; he fell on one knee, blushing, kissed her hand, and entered the ring with a garland on his head to dance with the bride, who seemed flattered by such unusual attention.

  21. At its head rode a youth, with a garland on his brow and a long spear-shaft wreathed with green in his hand.

  22. Even such pronounced realists as William Dean Howells and Hamlin Garland have written novels dealing with attempts at spirit communication.

  23. Hamlin Garland remarks in a recent article, The Spirit-World on Trial, "When the medium consented to enter the laboratory of the physicist, a new era in the study of psychic phenomena began.

  24. John Garland says the ladies wove golden cingulæ in the thirteenth century; and Henry I.

  25. But as their flowery garland was wreathed of the brightest roses that had grown there, so, in the tie that united them, were intertwined all the purest and best of their early joys.

  26. That is," says he, "when you have your garland on; when you are writing verses.

  27. The poor child's garland had not dropped from his arm even when he fell, and, entangled by his dress, it still clung around him.

  28. He holds a cup in his right hand, like one about to drink, and looks at it lovingly, taking pleasure in the liquor of which he was the inventor; for this reason he is crowned with a garland of vine leaves.

  29. She sought for flowers To make a garland For her golden head.

  30. White roses, red roses, blossoming: But the fair Venus knew The crimson roses had gained their hue From the hearts that for love had bled; And the goddess made a garland Gathered from the roses red.

  31. He wears his minstrel's garland on his brow.

  32. The beautiful face is pale as marble, and the brow is crowned with a garland of myrtle leaves.

  33. What fashion will you wear the garland of?

  34. The guest at a feast would be crowned with a garland of flowers.

  35. But now the garland has fallen from her head.

  36. All they without were ranged in a ring, And danced round; but in the midst of them Three other ladies did both dance and sing, The while the rest them round about did hem, And like a garland did in compass stem.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "garland" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.