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Definition of Engarlands
1. engarland [v] - See also: engarland
Lexicographical Neighbors of Engarlands
Literary usage of Engarlands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"... and how he ornaments his thoughts and engarlands his speeches, how cunningly
he imbues himself with the knowledge of the ancients and of foreigners, ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"On that part of the cornice, whence no rim engarlands its steep fall, did Virgil
come; On the other side me were the spirits, their cheeks Bathing devout ..."
3. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jean Jules Jusserand (1908)
"... pains Lyly gives himself to make his innovation a success, and so please his
patronesses, and how he ornaments his thoughts and engarlands his speeches, ..."
4. Haiti, Her History and Her Detractors by Jacques Nicolas Léger (1907)
"The convolvulus vine engarlands trees on whose trunks and branches wild orchids
bloom. The fairy-like beauty of the scene is still more enchanting when seen ..."
5. Readings on the Paradiso of Dante: Chiefly Based on the Commentary of by William Warren Vernon, Dante Alighieri (1900)
"... ocean) which engarlands the earth, between discordant shores extends against
the sun (/'. e. from west to east) so far, that it makes its meridian there ..."
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