Word: wreath
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SENSIBLE writer in the Exonian suggests the substitution of laurel-wreaths for other prizes at athletic contests, but he does so half jokingly, and wisely remarks that he fears the change is too radical. Seriously, would it not really be more satisfactory; a wreath can at any rate be consigned to the waste-paper basket; whereas the hideous silver-plated monstrosities which are now the reward of prowess are not to be got rid of by any amount of ingenuity...
...find a cypress wreath instead...
...twine a wreath of fairest flowers...
...Academy (London) says of Miss Cushman's retirement from the stage; "She played 'Lady Macbeth' before an audience which hung on her performance with the utmost enthusiasm. Afterwards, Mr. Cullen Bryant gave her a laurel-wreath, and some leading citizens of New York bore torches in front of her as she went home to her hotel...
...attempt at the same. After standing in awe before the sad glance of Durer's figure with its resting wings, that still have power to bear it through endless wandering, with the neglected implements of human science cast on the earth, and with its never-to-be-forgotten wreath, - after the feelings aroused by Durer we turn to the Little Master, and truly see what a "well-intentioned" artist he is. He gives us, reduced of course, the sphere which Durer gave; the compass shows us a wing, - but what a wing! A comparison of the wing in Behau...