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    laurel


    laurels


    1. The others rested on their laurel boughs,


    2. All that remained was to crown the only possible winner of the competition, and after the ceremony to place a laurel wreath on his head was complete, the contestant removed his fabulous suit and revealed himself to be a fine looking young man


    3. competition, and after the ceremony to place a laurel wreath on his


    4. After reaching a stand of laurel on the far side, I had to sit down on a log


    5. The forecast was for winds picking up to 30MPH, before a rain storm arrived in the Laurel Mountains


    6. He added that it basically went southeast through the Laurel Mountains


    7. “All the data I have collected convinces me that he is using the Great Allegheny Passage hiking trail that goes from here to Columbia through the Laurel Mountains


    8. Snow hung on the maples, oaks, pines and drooped down the huge, black-green laurel


    9. It was a beautiful, tight run, with great falls and dangerous rock formations that challenged anyone especially after days of spring rain in the Laurel Mountains


    10. He became engrossed in the plethora of data that concerned both the terrain, primarily the area of the Laurel Mountains, and the Great Allegheny Passage

    11. The Morgan’s were one of the original pioneer families in the Laurel Mountains


    12. The man who ran was white, which made the description valid because not many whites would be out walking the Laurel Mountain trails these days


    13. They would know soon enough whether the Laurel Run Bridge was still up


    14. Bulloch had also purchased a large supply ship, the Laurel, and had loaded her to the gunwales with guns, powder, and supplies


    15. Laurel departed Liverpool in the early morning hours on the day after the Sea King departed


    16. Aboard the Laurel were a number of Confederate officers and seamen, some of whom had seen


    17. steamer Laurel from Liverpool to Havana, Cuba


    18. However, in reality, the Laurel was to rendezvous with the Sea King at Funchal, on the Island of Madeira, off the coast of Morocco,


    19. look closely at the Laurel when she left the scene without fanfare during the early hours of the next morning while it was still dark


    20. As soon as the Laurel got under way, the Confederate officers and seamen got together, introduced themselves to each other,

    21. Consequently, there was some uneasiness among the Laurel


    22. The Shenandoah was anchored in eighteen fathoms as the Laurel came to and was lashed alongside of her


    23. Laurel, and confusion reigned with all of the items scattered about the ship


    24. them on the Laurel


    25. acting boatswain as soon as the Laurel cleared the channel and to explain to him their mission to the North Pacific


    26. After the transfer from the Laurel, there were ten persons on the list of acting appointments, as follows:


    27. the Laurel and the previous Sea King, and this took place soon after the transfer was complete


    28. Accordingly, all of the men from the Laurel and Shenandoah were called before the quarterdeck of the Shenandoah


    29. which had been dumped in the berth deck by the Laurel, was finally removed to the side bunkers on the ship until they were


    30. Desultory argument ensued, with the pair of them half-heartedly disputing the laurel crown of good-natured invective

    31. I explained the concept of satori as quickly and simply as I could and followed that with a short identification of the Laurel and Hardy comedy team of the twenties and thirties


    32. The case of Laurel Dilman of the USA 242


    33. After getting dressed in a laurel green dress, I joined Brandon downstairs


    34. Walking into the woods, Jesse paused to study the veins in a leaf and examine a mountain laurel


    35. Taking her time, Jesse paused to study the veins in a leaf and examine a mountain laurel


    36. According to camp tradition, we wore laurel wreaths to a big feast prepared in our honor, then led a procession down to the bonfire, where we got to burn the burial shrouds our cabins had made for us in our absence


    37. “The heck with laurel wreaths,” Luke said


    38. They should also remember that many herbs are reputed to have aphrodisiac qualities; among them are sweet basil, thyme, rosemary, juniper, laurel, myrtle,


    39. The patio was scattered with paint cans and paintbrushes, one large laurel tree rising above the high walls


    40. To blend thy laurel with the cypress gloom,

    41. Sinatra won six Lifetime Achievement Awards, The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, two Golden Laurel Awards, a Golden Apple Award for male star of the year and three other Golden Apples for least cooperative actor


    42. bearing a sanctified laurel of prinus and holm


    43. He thought they might be mountain laurel


    44. , strawberry-tree( a tree with leaves resemblingthose of the laurel, andwith red flowers)


    45. My palms brushed runes in the rock, stories that soaked into my skin with the dampness: Coronets of stars and sea-spray, and a saebel king, crowned with laurel and holly, moonlight in his eyes


    46. A clump of mountain laurel grew here, and whenever I waxed morose I would creep under them to hear the air-tales the trees traded of rain, earth, and nesting weavers


    47. hickory trees shaded the campsite while cherry laurel, dogwood and assorted


    48. In the box, Tiberius remained standing as a pageboy appeared beside him and presented the Emperor with a laurel wreath resting upon a pillow


    49. A winged Victory, in flowing purple robes and holding a laurel wreath, hovers above a Hero, who drives his chariot directly towards us


    50. The front of the red chariot box is richly decorated with golden oak leaves, laurel leaves, figs, horses, wolves and woodpeckers







































    1. Although he went away to join the army, when he came back, he settled down apparently quite happily, living with his elderly mother until she died and then coming to live here at The Laurels


    2. You appear to have created a very positive rapport with the residents of The Laurels


    3. After a thoroughly enjoyable half hour, debating the relative merits of the various plants on offer, I decide to buy a rather nice little Areca palm … small and neat … just right for the middle of the table; I splash out on a pretty pot to stand it in – my reward for having made a good start at The Laurels


    4. ’ I said playfully, as we walk out of The Laurels


    5. Remembrance Day, when it arrives, is cold, grey and damp (as Janet predicted) and casts an atmosphere of gloom over The Laurels


    6. ‘Interesting that Mr Dickinson wants to create a link with The Laurels


    7. ‘Please may I come and join the party at The Laurels on Christmas Day? I was going up to the parents but Dad’s been called off to Dubai or somewhere so I’ll be sitting all alone in my little house with my turkey leg and a sprout on a plate … Gran and Gramps said you were having a party and I should ask if I could come … I’ll be a good boy and help with the washing up


    8. With one hand resting lightly on my waist, he points out where The Laurels lies – oh yes, I can just see the roof of the hall from here


    9. ‘Kate! Nice to meet you, I have heard so many good things about what you are doing at The Laurels


    10. clumps of rhododendrons and laurels that encircled the lawns

    11. If it was possible, it would be best to find a pilot who knew the mountain terrain of the Laurels


    12. and plant fresh laurels where they kill


    13. The terrain was forested with a kind of thorn tree and laurels and still rather dry so we had to be careful of giving ourselves away by generating a dust cloud


    14. All along our way south, although the land became less dry, the thorn trees, laurels, and dry brush persisted


    15. She felt it wise to rest on the laurels instead of hoping for miracles every time


    16. However, the landmass, once it got solidified to some depth, would have rested on its laurels but for the jerk of an earthquake or a jolt by a volcano


    17. And the safe laurels that adorned her brows?


    18. his laurels and stopped practising


    19. The YUAN-Class diesel attack submarine that had carried them to the archipelago was not resting on its laurels right then, as it was part of a much bigger and complicated plan, along with eleven other YUAN and SONG-Class boats and 26 older MING and ROMEO-Class diesel attack submarines


    20. I have found that you cannot rest on your laurels when it comes

    21. Well in those battles of yore, the jihadis vied with each other to die for the joys of the Paradise that Muhammad had promised them, which earned laurels for the Muslim arms, but sadly for the Coats of Muslim Mail, the modern warfare is as much about machines as men behind them that THEY have come to master on both counts


    22. might win laurels and that brings you wealth in


    23. I could not help feeling that if Clare Kendall ever had decided to go in for such things, Marie herself would have had to look sharp to her laurels


    24. outdistance the other by only a fraction of an inch, yet he gets the laurels


    25. They can't sit on their laurels anymore because they will continuously have to prove their worth in new situations, more now than ever before


    26. Neither do you, as the mother, seek to appropriate all the laurels


    27. The fair woman who is a woman of honour, and whose husband is poor, deserves to be crowned with the laurels and crowns of victory and triumph


    28. and one listener was so thrilled by the tender invitation that she longed to say she did know the land, and would joyfully depart thither whenever he liked The song was considered a great success, and the singer retired covered with laurels


    29. Through the gate—now to the right among the laurels


    30. through the laurels, round the end of the fence and along to the back door

    31. My songs of Abel and Ivy, Geraldine and Vivian were eventually interleaved with others about the washing of blood from our hands and the weaving of laurels for the brows of heroes and heroines made of alloy


    32. The massive desk of a dean’s office now did nothing to reduce the Runcible dazzle, but Mercer felt his undergraduate laurels as a withered garland upon his brow


    33. Instead the laurels go to Laszlo Biro, a Hungarian journalist fed up with having to fill his fountain pen every five minutes only to see it tear up the newsprint paper he was using


    34. ‘On the contrary,’ he said, in a querulous and angry tone that contrasted with his flattering words, ‘on the contrary, your excellency’s participation in the common action is highly valued by His Majesty; but we think the present delay is depriving the splendid Russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been accustomed to win in their battles,’ he concluded his


    35. a bed of laurels for us, you know, I said to myself: ‘That is a monarch,’ and I devoted myself


    36. At the bottom was a sunk fence; its sole separation from lonely fields: a winding walk, bordered with laurels and terminating in a giant horse-chestnut, circled at the base by a seat, led down to the fence


    37. "My uncle's gardener always says the soil here is better than his own, and so it appears from the growth of the laurels and evergreens in general


    38. About us neither had gained a footing; laburnums, pink mays, snowballs, and trees of arbor-vitae, rose out of laurels and hydrangeas, green and brilliant into the sunlight


    39. The only anxiety was lest he should rest satisfied with his laurels and not march triumphantly into India! Innumerable sonnets, epistles, odes, and eulogistic rhymes of all kinds were published in honour of the occasion


    40. But alas, he no longer believes in the Moscow bells; Rome, laurels

    41. But he has no belief in laurels even


    42. "Laurels!" Karmazinov pronounced with a subtle and rather sarcastic smile


    43. "I am touched, of course, and accept with real emotion this wreath prepared beforehand, but still fresh and unwithered, but I assure you, mesdames, that I have suddenly become so realistic that I feel laurels would in this age be far more appropriate in the hands of a skilful cook than in mine


    44. yet he was delighted now that Tancred had kept up his reputation, had disposed of another rider, and so had drawn closer on himself fresh senseless laurels


    45. Having achieved these deeds, the writer of these lines arrived in the centre of the empire,—a rocket establishment,—where he cut the laurels for his deeds


    46. “On the contrary,” he said, in a querulous and angry tone that contrasted with his flattering words, “on the contrary, your excellency’s participation in the common action is highly valued by His Majesty; but we think the present delay is depriving the splendid Russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been accustomed to win in their battles,” he concluded his evidently prearranged sentence


    47. When I understood what he wanted—when I saw that he was preparing a bed of laurels for us, you know, I said to myself: ‘That is a monarch,’ and I devoted myself to him! So there! Oh yes, mon cher, he is the greatest man of the ages past or future


    48. He withers laurels, wreaths, and crowns,


    49. Kipley and Hemmy had disappeared on their laurels


    50. If this gentleman cannot boast of the military laurels which have adorned the brows of the patriots I have mentioned; as a statesman and faithful public servant, he stands inferior to none



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    Synonyms for "laurel"

    bay wreath laurel laurel wreath arthur stanley jefferson laurel stan laurel garland crown honour accolade award distinction decoration shrub bay

    "laurel" definitions

    any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family


    United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965)


    (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory