45 adjectives to describe laurels

Yonder steep bank slopes down to the lake-side, one solid mass of pale pink laurel, but, once upon the water, a purer tint prevails.

He was indeed created poet laureat to Queen Elizabeth, but he for some time wore a barren laurel, and possessed only the place without the pension .

An assurance of unfading laurels, and immortal reputation, is the settled reciprocation of civility between amicable writers.

Let the wild-eyed conqueror wear The bloody laurel in his hair! Let the black and snaky vine Round

THE BAY.We have already described (see No. 180) the difference between the cherry-laurel (Prunus Laurus cerasus) and the classic laurel (Laurus nobilis), the former only being used for culinary purposes.

Its facade looked upon the street over a strip of garden crowded with dingy laurels.

Once more, ye laurels.

I kept away from the drive, and approached the building through the dismal, dripping laurels.

The Spade cook added an earthly laurel to his temporal crown with the supper to which he shortly invited us.

It was in the domain of letters, however, and more especially as a novelist, that he won his most enduring laurels.

Alleging his advanced age and infirmities, the cautious nominee declined the honour, preferring doubtless to abide by his facile diplomatic laurels won in Cairo.

Merit this, but seek only virtue, not to extend your limits, (for what needs to win a fading triumphant laurel out of the tears of wretched men?)

Even victors are by victories undone; Thus Hannibal, with foreign laurels won, To Carthage was recall'd, too late to keep his own.

No man of heathen antiquity is better known to us, and no man by pure genius ever won more glorious laurels.

His brows were bound by a wreath of golden laurel.

But Mars would hardly deign to share the humbler laurels of Apollo.

Through the immense spreading Portuguese laurels which sheltered it from the east, little or no sunshine found its way to the grey, moss-grown basin and the stone figures supporting it; over which a thin stream of water continually flowed with a melancholy rhythm, in perpetual twilight.

He won immortal laurels at the battles of Arques and Ivry, and at the sieges of Paris and Rouen.

He is always represented in the Roman costume, with the imperial laurel on his brows, with kings kneeling, and presenting the keys of conquered cities.

There he was, over the shoulders of the crowd, from the two glittering epaulets and embroidered collar upward, beneath the arch of green boughs with interwined laurel, and the banner drooping as if to shade his brow!

Our imagination crowns the Cambridge poet, and the Cambridge sculptor, not with their later laurels, but with the willows out of which they taught us to carve whistles, shriller than any trump of fame, in the happy days when Mount Auburn was Sweet Auburn still.

To whom luxuriant laurels hide the grave!

Poor little bards, so shameless in your care To snatch the mighty laurel from his head, Have you no fear, dwarfs in the giant's chair, How men shall laugh, remembering the dead?

"A deer might bark a twig," said I. "Maybe, sorr," muttered Murphy; "but there's divil a deer w'ud nibble sheep-laurel.

No less a poet and critic than Daniel, regarding the work doubtless with the undiscriminating eye of friendship, asserted that it might even to Guarini himself have vindicated the poetic laurels of England, and yet from the whole long poem it is hardly possible to extract any passage which would do credit to the pen of an average schoolboy.

45 adjectives to describe  laurels