Garlands
[gɑ:ləndz]
Examples
- When the house has been swept and garnished, they dress up the exiled vices, and, crowning them with garlands, bring them back under new names. Plato. The Republic.
- The crosses and garlands looked strange, but the hills and woods of this landscape look still stranger. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Stone crosses like these are not unfamiliar to you, nor are these dim garlands of everlasting flowers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Garlands and triumphal arches were hung across the road to welcome the young bride. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- When, after the fashion of the time, he put the funeral garlands on the boy he wept aloud. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There were carved garlands on the panelled walls, and as he stood among them giving us welcome, I know what kind of loops I thought they looked like. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She opened the casement to get a better view of the garlands and posies that adorned it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Typist: Rosanna