Pronunciation of the English word wreath.
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1. | A wreath was bound around his head. | |
2. | The girl in the picture has a flower wreath on her head, and not a golden crown. | |
3. | Alice! a childish story take, / And with a gentle hand / Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined / In Memory's mystic band, / Like pilgrim's wither'd wreath of flowers / Pluck'd in a far-off land. | |
4. | His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath. | |
5. | Then Dymas brave / and Hypanis by comrades' hands are slain. / Nor, Panthus, thee thy piety can save, / nor e'en Apollo's wreath preserve thee from the grave. | |
6. | This said, / I ceased, and Helenus with slaughtered kine / implores the god, and from his sacred head / unbinds the wreath, and leads me to the shrine, / awed by Apollo's power, and chants the doom divine: | |
7. | Then sire Anchises hastened to entwine / a massive goblet with a wreath, and vowed / libations to the gods, and poured the wine / and on the lofty stern invoked the powers divine: / "Great gods, whom Earth and Sea and Storms obey, / breathe fair, and waft us smoothly o'er the main." | |
8. | We hung a Christmas wreath on the front door. | |
9. | "Come now, let me adorn you like your other sisters!" and she put a wreath of white lilies round her hair. | |
10. | Pope Francis placed a wreath during his visit to the Martyrs' Monument at Nishizaka Hill, in Nagasaki, Japan. |