O good Apollo, for this last emprise Make of me such a vessel of thy power As giving the beloved laurel asks!
Euripides is with us, Antiphon, Simonides, Agatho, and many other Greeks who of old their brows with laurel decked.
It is not a laurel, but a Ruscus, the name laurel having probably grown on to it by old association with any evergreen suitable for a victor's wreath.
Its beautiful garden relative, the Alexandrian or Victory Laurel (Ruscus racemosus), is also now just at its best.
The long arching sprays of Alexandrian Laurel do well with green or variegated Box, and will live in a room for several weeks.
The next day the ducal family attended the rehearsal; in the evening the duchess gave me letters to Berlin and Russia, and at the conclusion of the performance the orchestra presented me with a laurel wreath.
When Rosser arrived from Richmond with his brigade he was proclaimed as the savior of the Valley, and his men came all bedecked with laurel branches.
They themselves threw flowers, they wreathed the pillory with roses and with laurel till it seemed a place of honor rather than of disgrace.
The title only meant that he had taken a degree in grammar and Latin verse, and had been given a laurel wreath by the university which gave the degree.
He plunged through a laurel thicket, and had no sooner emerged than he saw the Confederates deploying around it in confidence that their game was bagged.
Numbers were of the outlier class, who, wearied of continual hiding in the laurel brakes, had embraced this service as a compromise.
The laurelis indeed for the bust, not for the living head.
Your mind embraces wider regions; mine Lingers content within the little isle, And 'midst the laurel grove of poesy.
Alphonso, seeing the laurel wreath on the bust of Virgil, makes a sign to his sister; and the princess, after some remonstrance on the part of Tasso, transfers it from the statue to the head of the living poet.
Mine, gay with many flowers, Still swells and blushes underneath my hand; Thou, moved with higher thought and greater heart, Hast only wove the slender laurel bough.
Shouldn't there be accompanying laurel wreaths with this unsolicited testimonial, Mr. McDermott?
But the fair column was shattered near its top; and the laurel leaves that twined it were mingled with evergreen cypress.
Many of her noblest were spared; the wounded had reaped a glory far beyond the scars they bore; the dead were honored far beyond the living, and future generations should twine the laurel for their crown.
The Savannah Daughters of the Confederacy, whose custom it is to send a laurel wreath for the tomb of deceased Confederates, refused to send one upon the death of General Longstreet a few days ago.
Through the fair South the heroes whom he led Against the blue lines in the stricken field Muse on the days ere Appomattox wrenched The laurel wreath from Dixie's shattered shield.
But Cicero's immeasurable boasting of himself in his orations argues him guilty of an uncontrollable appetite for distinction, his cry being evermore that "Arms should give place to the gown, and the soldier's laurel to the tongue.
The fruit oflaurel trees are called bays, and are brown or red without, and white within and unctuous.
The Emperor Tiberius Caesar in thundering and lightning used a garland of Laurel Tree on his head against dread of lightning, as it is said.
He went on toLaurel Lodge, and, after knocking and ringing for some time in vain, walked back to the town and went on board his ship.
If any of them chaps trouble you again," he said, as they shook hands at the gate of Laurel Lodge, "you let me know.
It was hazy and lacking in detail, but it was sufficient to make him give Laurel Lodge a wide berth for the time being, and to work still harder for that share in the firm which he had always been given to understand would be his.
He rose early next morning and set off for Laurel Lodge, a prey to gloom, which the furtive glances of Mr. Walters had done nothing to dissipate.
By the time he drew near Laurel Lodge--the name was the choice of a former tenant--the work of the day had begun in real earnest.
On the steep mountainside beyond, the flowering laurel and rhododendron were thick, and the forests hardly showed a scar from the axes that had claimed the timber for the buildings.
She wheeled and without sun-bonnet or hat plunged into the laurel thickets of the hillside, and was climbing with a tireless stride up slopes which would have winded a razor-back hog.
The thickets of his own rhododendron and laurel could not have availed him more serviceably.
Sergeant Spooner in echo, forgetting that the natural cover of the Islands was not the laurel of the Cumberlands.
The laurel blossoms waved pink centers and the rhododendron nodded at her.
For Newt had taken himself away into the thickness of the timber and laurelfor target practice.
At the roots of the laurel a man can crouch unseen with his rifle cradled against his shoulder to "lay-way" an enemy who has over-lived his time.
The laurel bushes would be all a-glisten and the elder tops would be tossing sprays of foam-like blossom between towering sentinels of rock.
The only sentiment that stirred in his breast was such as might have brooded in the narrow and poisoned brain of a rattle-snake, lying close-coiled by the laurel roots along his native creek-beds.
Back on the hillsides the white elder blossoms and pink-hearted laurel cups nodded in the sleepy languor of a summer afternoon.
Unjoyous in the joyful throng, Alone, and linking life with none, Apollo's laurel groves among The still Cassandra wander'd on!
A laurel deck'd his coffin; The sword of the deceased was placed upon it, In mark of honor, by the Rhinegrave's self.
The singers, about forty in number, were upon a stage erected at the end of the room; white drapery hung behind festoons with laurel wreaths (the walls were painted in fresco).
Most of them also had a trim courtyard before their doors, planted with laureland holly and box, and sometimes a yew cut into some fantastic shape.
The arms, decorations, baton, and laurel crown of the marshal were placed on the bier.
It was a golden diadem, formed of oak and laurel leaves.
Monardella grows here in large beds in the openings, and there is plenty of laurel in dells and manzanita on the hillsides, and the rosy, fragrant chamoebatia carpets the ground almost everywhere.
Desperate with misery, Laurel seeks a beautiful young lady, the noble daughter of a publisher, for whose magazine her father had written until his death.
The virtue of laurel leaves, and of the skin of a sea-calf, as preservatives against lightning, are noticed by Pliny (Hist.
Tiberius, who professed to be a complete freethinker, had greater faith in laurel leaves.
The wedding morning, the friends and guests, covered with cockades and laurel branches, conduct the couple to church.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laurel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bay; crown; cup; decoration; ebony; garland; laurels; oak; palm; pot; shrub; tree; trophy; wreath
