How glad the tone when summer's sun Wreathes the gay world with flowers, And trees bend down with golden fruit, And birds are in the bowers!
Grey error steams as from a fen; As o'er this flaring City wreathes The black cloud-vapour that it breathes!
In time of spate, especially when the sun shines and wreathes rainbows in the smoke of mist and spray that rises from the fall, the scene is indescribably grand.
Give me such kisses as the Queen of shadows Gave to the sleeping boy she stole on Latmus; Look round about in snakie wreathes close folded, Those rosie arms about my neck, O!
A beautiful English cherry tree, with its snowy wreathes in full blow, stood before him; he had raised it from the seed, and loved to look upon it.
There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
The golden chain that wreathes your neck, shows that your mother was not born to poverty.
Yet, remember, England gathers Hence but fruitless wreathes of fame, If the freedom of your fathers Glow not in your hearts the same.
Thus do we make a virtue of necessity--and thus contentment wreathes with silk and velvet the prisoner's chains.
The world's festal wreathes wilt and wither in the hot fumes of the banqueting house, and 'the crown of pride shall be trodden under foot.
Day by day, there ascended from the altar of incense the sweet odour, which symbolised the fragrance of prayer as it wreathes itself upwards to the heavens.
Look, where around the bird the ilex wreathes Still, sheltering boughs,--so be my love to thee!
Oh, flowers whose bloom had perfumed Carmel, weave Wreathes for such love as lived in Genevieve!
Page 213] [Translation] Kaula wreathes her brow with the ocean; Niihau shines forth in the calm.
We know for Physick yours you get, Which thus you heere are sorting, And vpon garlands we are set, With Wreathes and Posyes sporting: Lelipa.
The Chaplet and the Anadem, The curled Tresses crowning, We looser Nimphes delight in them, Not in your Wreathes renowning.
Ione gathers the flowers, but my own hand wreathes them daily around the tomb.
Nature has denied beauty, she yet contrives to dispense her smiles: witness the arbutus and the vine, which she wreathes over the arid and burning soil of yon extinct volcano.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wreathes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
