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laurels
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
