And so the king and all the courtiers knew That wreath was Nature's; and the baffled queen Returned to tell the wonders she had seen.

Festoons of drapery, wreaths of flowers caught up with rams' heads, or of husks tied with a knot of riband, and oval pateroe to mark divisions in a frieze, or to emphasize a break in the design, are ornaments characteristic of what was termed the Adams style.

These vast wreaths, which the painter's art has so beautifully revealed to us at the top of the canvas, are steam.

The wreath is the lock of hairperhaps a plait or curl, for otherwise the term wreath is rather wide of the mark.

I could see that the wreath was a very insignificant matter.

In some districts they crown or gird themselves with mugwort while the midsummer fire is burning, for this is supposed to be a protection against ghosts, witches, and sickness; in particular, a wreath of mugwort is a sure preventive of sore eyes.

In fact, so far away is it from everything else and so close to the cemetery that the funeral wreaths and the more prominent monuments are almost the only interesting things which the patients have to look at.

A wreath of a fragrant kind of olive is the reward of literary merit in China.