The resonant, laughing voices of these gorgeous maidens scared away the multitude of humming-birds, whose delicate wings
wreathed with the mist of their vibration the tops of flowering bushes.
Through all the spring and summertime, garlands of fresh flowers,
wreathed by infant hands, rested on the stone; and, when the children came to change them lest they should wither and be pleasant to him no longer, their eyes filled with tears, and they spoke low and softly of their poor dead cousin.
Only the brightest of LES E'TOILES were still shining; the sky was cloudless overhead, though small curling mists lay thousands of feet below us in the valleys,
wreathed around the feet of the mountains, and adding to the splendor of their lofty summits.
On a chief corner stood a lofty unpainted pole
wreathed from top to bottom with tin pots and pans and cups, the chief tinmonger's noisy notice to the world (when the wind blew) that his shop was on hand for business at that corner.
Nor were their ornaments like those in use to-day, set off by Tyrian purple, and silk tortured in endless fashions, but the
wreathed leaves of the green dock and ivy, wherewith they went as bravely and becomingly decked as our Court dames with all the rare and far-fetched artifices that idle curiosity has taught them.
"The likest to a bird the foam-necked ship, propelled by the wind, started over the deep waves of the sea, till that about one hour of the second day, the
wreathed prowed ship had sailed over, so that the traveller saw the land.
At harvest time, though their crop was of the smallest, they made an image with the sheaves of Indian corn, and
wreathed it with autumnal garlands, and bore it home triumphantly.
Now Chryses had come to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and had brought with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his hand the sceptre of Apollo
wreathed with a suppliant's wreath, and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus, who were their chiefs.
There are so many bird-cherries round me, great trees with branches sweeping the grass, and they are so
wreathed just now with white blossoms and tenderest green that the garden looks like a wedding.
Just where she had paused, the brook chanced to form a pool so smooth and quiet that it reflected a perfect image of her little figure, with all the brilliant picturesqueness of her beauty, in its adornment of flowers and
wreathed foliage, but more refined and spiritualized than the reality.
They lifted their eyes every chance to the smoke-
wreathed hillock from whence the hostile battery addressed them.
Couples were already gliding over the floor beyond: the light of the wax candles fell on revolving tulle skirts, on girlish heads
wreathed with modest blossoms, on the dashing aigrettes and ornaments of the young married women's coiffures, and on the glitter of highly glazed shirt-fronts and fresh glace gloves.