The thyrsus, the distinctive object borne by the worshippers of Bacchus, was a phallic or male symbol, the characteristic portion of which was wreathed and buried in Ivy leaves; signifying the union of the sexes.
The road went through the fertile Sacco valley; right and left rich pasture grounds, or wheat and corn fields; the mountains on either side rising in grandeur in the early sunlight, their tops wreathed with veils of rising mist.
Then his lord, grieving bitterly, raised the beloved form in his arms, and, changing it to Ivy, wreathed it around his brow.
XXXI These delicates he heap'd with glowing hand On golden dishes and in baskets bright Of wreathed silver: sumptuous they stand In the retired quiet of the night, Filling the chilly room with perfume light.
The door opened and the Princess entered the room in a leisurely fashion, wreathed in smiles.
With her crook and her hat and her rose-wreathed lamb.
For the picture, painted with glib assurance and abounding in pink and azure, portrayed Adrienne dressed as a shepherdess and carrying a flower-wreathed crook.
If such a sardonic old lion as you does really grow bodeful before the rose-wreathed lamb there is, I own, reason to fear for the future.
Conspicuous on the table lay a booklet bound in a mauve paper cover, wreathed about with silver bells.
And, wreathedin smiles, their landlady departed to the kitchen, there to retail to Maid Bessy, the one comprehensible bit of praise.
It led to a clearing in the trees and a villa, painted strawberry pink, with a tiled terrace and veranda, wreathed about with Bourgainvillia.
In its pail of ice stood a large bottle, the neck wreathed in gold foil.
Round her head was wreathed a crown of fantastic hemlock--round her neck a corslet of deadly nightshade.
In a certain wild and romantic glen in the Highlands of Scotland, there is a cave opening beneath the brow of a huge overhanging cliff, and half concealed by wreathed roots and wild festoons of brier and woodbine.
Hayston paid me without demanding to have them weighed, and George's dark face was wreathed in smiles when I showed him the money.
After which I was the recipient of various nods and winks and wreathed smiles.
You think--because it is becoming plain to the modern eye that the ignorant love of his first followers wreathed his life in legend, that therefore you can escape from Jesus of Nazareth, you can put him aside as though he had never been?
How many new associations have wreathed themselves about their hearts since then!
And why are garlands wreathed around the arch of Constantine?
The greens were dotted with oranges and apples, the high pillars wreathed with ivy, the chancel and altar banked with flowers, for the Reverend Nevin is very artistic in his arrangement of such things.
The Corso has been crowded, and many of the balconies draped with bright carpets, and wreathed with flowers.
The Beauty was standing near the dressing-table, a radiant vision clothed in white, with hair unbound, wreathed with roses, and with roses in the bodice of her dress.
But Meg's conception of the world beyond the grave was as of a great darkness, against which outlined itself a simpering countenance wreathed with roses, which was her mother's face.
She had rudely drawn a small-mouthed, large-eyed face, the head wreathed with roses, the dress covered with roses.
She had wreathed a long garland of white flowers into her hair, which fell about her neck and bosom; and another was twisted round her brows, so as to form a coronet.
Our three intellectual faces, wreathed in the silly smiles of intoxication, hovered over the silken curls of our goddesses, thus giving the whole theatre a full view of our happiness!
At an early hour the company assembled in the well-lighted hall, still gracefully wreathedwith its Christmas evergreens; the music struck up and the company entered.
The small hat was wreathed with crushed roses, and the cloak, of soft clinging material, was cut in the latest fashion.
She was wearing a very pretty leghorn hatwreathed with daisies.
I could not have discussed the brief span of human life with locks steeped in Malobathran balm and wreathed with that silly myrtle.
They spent the night drinking, and towards morning the chevalier and his companions, being then drunk, espied their host standing respectfully at the door, his face wreathed in smiles.
