They had bunches of flowers in their hands, andgarlands on their heads; and as they were thus delighting themselves, with faces full of love and joy, they suddenly changed countenance on seeing Rinaldo.
The most important one was moulded by Francisco Garcés, the garlands and low reliefs by Joaquin Ferrer, sculptor, the flowers on the covers by an apprentice, helped by Cloostermans.
Another soup tureen with cover and stand, painted with garlands and the arms of Portugal.
Far different from the tempestuous overture was this soft and swift blending of chords in garlands of sweet sound.
Figures on their paintings are decked with crowns and garlands of anemone, acacia, convolvulus, and some others.
It is a fortunate accident that he works them out by expressing them, twisting into garlands the brambles that impede his way.
Omar might have had such a lip, if he had been capable not only of his garlands of roses, but also of the essays of Montaigne.
Amélie, with a wild desperation, gathered up the gay robes and garlands and threw them in a heap in the corner of the chamber.
For this the nymphs, at fall of eave, Oft dance upon the flow'ry banks, And sing my name, and garlands weave To bear beneath the wave their thanks.
Instantly from behind the shelter of the trees there tripped forward a band of pink and green-robed figures, bearing in their hands garlands of many-coloured roses.
The twelve columns of the peristyle and the staircase were illuminated; and the columns were united by garlands of colored lights, the statues on the peristyle and the steps also bearing lights.
At each corner were eagles, ciphers in colored glass, and garlands of fire suspended between torches of Hymen.
Some persons made ineffectual efforts to extinguish the fire by tearing down the drapery and smothering the flames with their hands; but in the twinkling of an eye the curtains, papers, and garlands caught, and the wood-work began to burn.
The saints and angels of their faith hovered around these Jesuit martyrs with crowns of glory and garlands of immortal bliss.
She sends you the rings from her fingers, The garlands from her hair; She sends you the heart within her breast; And what would you have mair?
He has bought her rings for her fingers, And garlands for her hair, The broochis till her bosome braid; What wad my love ha mair?
Here is the rings frae her fingers, The garlands frae her hair, The broches frae her bosome brade; Fray her ye'l nere get mare.
I send him the rings from my white fingers, The garlands off my hair; I send him the heart that's in my breast: What would my love have mair?
Between the slightly overcrowded urns and statues there were bright dashes of color, here of dahlias in full bloom, there of reddening garlands of ampelopsis or Virginia creeper.
For a minute they stood on the threshold, looking absently at the palms grouped in the corners and the garlands festooning the walls.
One house was distinguished by a greater number of garlands than the rest.
Every photograph and picture was wreathed in ivy, long garlands hung on either side the windows, and the chimney-piece and door-frames became clustering banks of leaf and blossom.
Guerin has applied a rich coloring, his favorite pink, and McLaren has added a poetic touch by letting garlands of the African dew plant, that he made his hedge of, flow over from the top.
Figures of women, gracefully modeled, withgarlands and tambourines.
Italian adaptation of Byzantine, Ship of State, the Bison, the Twins holding garlandsrepresenting abundance, the horn of plenty and cadeucus, and tree.
A bush of Pyrus Japonica was trained around and between these windows; and the flowers, showing up against their black stems, spreadgarlands of pure, hot colour over the face of the rough stone.
To what green altar, O mysterious priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands dressed?
For long years these two trees were pointed out to all who came to worship at the temple, and many loved to bring garlands and hang them on the trees, in honor of two souls whose virtue the gods had so signally rewarded.
Thus, frightened as she at first was, you might by and by have seen Europa stroking the bull's forehead with her small white hand, and taking the garlands off her own head to hang them on his neck and ivory horns.
Garlands and detached bouquets of flowers have been engraved upon the wet or the dry clay so finely--indeed, so exquisitely, that they cannot be seen unless held up to the light.
Around thy soul my thoughts are as garlands Or as an endless rosary.
The marigold, too, is still in bloom at that season in cottage gardens, and garlands of its orange blooms, mingled with other late flowers left by the departing summer, are twined about the grey mossgrown tombstones.
After we had shaken hands with them they hung garlands of flowers round our necks, thrust small bouquets on us and liberally besprinkled us with scent.
When they saw the mugger lying dead, they streamed down to the bank and to my surprise swarmed round me, hung garlands about my neck and lauded me to the skies.
Then the bows of the contestants were stacked together on the ground and hung with garlands and leafy branches.
The Opera-house is rather small, but was beautifully decorated with garlands of artificial flowers hanging from the center of the dome down to the balconies, and from the proscenium boxes to the orchestra.
Garlands of paper flowers hung the entire distance from the ceiling to the prompter's box.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "garlands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
