How To Use Laurel In A Sentence

  • Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
  • Something about paper walls, I think, about archery, and a good deal about evergreen laurel, myrtle and wild camellia.
  • That said, the advisability of perching a laurel crown on a horse-riding hat, which tended to happen after the equestrianism events, may have to be addressed.
  • We bumbled around each other like Laurel and Hardy in the gloom, fumbling for a torch we couldn't find.
  • Q WHY are the new leaves on my laurel curly and white? The Sun
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  • My cherry laurel is getting too tall. Times, Sunday Times
  • I guess I got all bigheaded (or rested on my laurels, or something). I’m seeing a trend | clusterflock
  • `A Pomeranian ," replied this morning's guest, a big, blowsy matron straight out of Laurel and Hardy. SURE OF YOU
  • What the notes don't tell you is that the flexible sprays of bay leaves can still be shaped into a passable laurel crown. Christianity Today
  • An important feature of the site is the lack of invasive non-native exotics like rhododendron and laurel.
  • WHY are the leaves on my laurel hedge turning yellow? The Sun
  • Laurel makes an attractive alternative with its large, glossy light-reflecting leaves and wide capacity.
  • There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself. Laurell K. Hamilton 
  • Plant vigorous species for large hedges 70cm (28in) apart: laurels, photinia, elaeagnus, yew, viburnum, holly, griselinia, cypress. Times, Sunday Times
  • In another interesting display of tradition, the winners in the women's race got to do a victory lap with laurel in their hair.
  • Laurel and lemon, olive and oak, cypress and palm trees make unlikely neighbors in the region's mild, dry climate.
  • ‘I would be more than happy if some latent talent is spotted in this event and would go on to win laurels at the highest level,’ was his observation on the occasion.
  • Here begins the manzanita, adjusting its tortuous stiff stems to the sharp waste of boulders, its pale olive leaves twisting edgewise to the sleek, ruddy, chestnut stems; begins also the meadowsweet, burnished laurel, and the million unregarded trumpets of the coral - red pentstemon. The Land of Little Rain
  • Rhododendron and laurel form dense thickets of glossy green.
  • Because not all plants we buy in nurseries are sun hardened, it's nice to shade your new plants with some camphor laurel branches.
  • Our home is at the southwestern tip of the valley, nestled among the lace-lichen laden oaks, bay laurel, mountain mahogany, ceanothus and toyon which typify this classically central coast California oak woodland.
  • In the painting, a laureled boy-man sits on a red rock holding a palette and pensively gazing into the distance.
  • His birth chart indicates much tension in his love life and suggests a divine discontent that would never let him rest on his laurels.
  • The little clearing was shielded from the street by the laurels, and afforded him plenty of elbow room.
  • The new badge comprises of a crown, harp, shamrock, laurel leaf and torch and scales with the cross of St Patrick as a centrepiece.
  • Tropic growths, which I will venture to call myrtle, oleander, laurel, and eucalyptus, environed the hotel, not too closely nor densely, and our increasing party was presently discovered from the head of its steps by a hospitable matron, who with a cry of comprehensive welcome ran within and was replaced by a head-waiter of as friendly aspect and much more English. Roman Holidays, and Others
  • In the century and a half that she has stood there, poised to award that outstretched laurel crown, many women who deserve the honours have passed by uncelebrated.
  • One of my friends, Henry, who gallops horses at Laurel took me to the backside.
  • The chariot, drawn by four horses, was wreathed in laurel, and the triumphator was attired like the Capitoline Jupiter in robes of purple and gold.
  • If you love someone, then your freedom is curtailed. If you love someone, you give up much of your privacy. If you love someone, then you are no longer merely one person but half of a couple. To think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love. Laurell K. Hamilton 
  • Laurel Canyon (2003), each focused on an innocent young woman swept up in the glamorously baffling sex-and-drugs scene swirling around a charismatic older female artist, the situation here is reversed; unexpectedly drawn in to and fascinated by the ultra-domestic household created by a pair of charismatic femmes, the swinger is the straight man (literally). SF Weekly | Complete Issue
  • In Kentucky, the plant is often associated with azaleas, mountain laurels and bellworts under the dappled shade of birch trees.
  • The shrub layer includes lowbush blueberry, black huckleberry, dangleberry, staggerbush, inkberry and sheep laurel.
  • Outdoors in the sculpture court, local bands Atole, Tu Fawning and E*Rock, will play throughout the day and visitors can watch an expert "dowser" uncover the colors and sounds of works of art, see a demonstration of printmaking at a mobile print factory and sample specially made beer brewed to complement individual museum objects for the event by Old Lompoc, Laurelwood and Lucky Lab. KPSU - Portland's College Radio
  • Their aroma bears some resemblance to bay laurel, though it is distinctly stronger, with a dominant eucalyptus note from cineole. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
  • Every year by December 6 - St. Nicholas' Day - the exterior of the historic Georgian-style home is swagged with laurel and windows are filled with candlelight.
  • Two or three years 'growth will raise these plants above all grass and low vegetation, and a sprinkling of laurel, rhododendron, hardy ferns and a few intermingling colonies of native wild flowers such as bloodroot, false Solomon's seal and columbines for the East, as Studies of Trees
  • So soone as Dioneus had ended his Novell, Madame Lauretta also knew, that the conclusion of her Regiment was come; whereupon, when the counsell of Canigiano had past with generall commendation, and the wit of Salabetto no lesse applauded, for fitting it with such an effectuall prosecution; shee tooke the Crowne of Laurell from her owne head, and set it upon Madame Aimilliaes, speaking graciously in this manner. The Decameron
  • The laurels clearly go to Speke when it comes to discovering the source of the Nile. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop. Laurell K. Hamilton 
  • She has therefore an opportunity for exercising in behalf of her dog that beautiful self-abnegation which is said to be a part of woman's nature, impelling her always to prefer that her laurels should be worn by somebody else. Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays
  • Unlike durable pieris, its relative, mountain laurel is tempermental. RHODODENDRON COMPANIONS FOR SPRING
  • Hatred is a cold fire, and it gives no warmth. Laurell K. Hamilton 
  • Putnam's service as a ranger, his capture and torture by Indians, his shipwreck and exploits during the British invasion of Cuba won him military laurels.
  • The carved foliage with ribbons and laurel wreaths applied to the center of the end cupboards relates to carvings on some of the best Federal mantels and overmantels in New Orleans.
  • Labienus also got hold of a bust of Saturninus and set it up on the rostra, garlanded with laurel. CONSPIRATA
  • The few heads that have either been found in or associated with the sanctuary show bearded men with long curly hair wearing wreaths, probably of laurels.
  • The mountainside was alive with blooms: dogwood, rhododendron, flame azaleas, along with budding mountain laurel. NOBODY'S BABY BUT MINE
  • The other shrub is the cherry laurel, which is actually a cherry and should perhaps be called the laurel cherry. Times, Sunday Times
  • The writers for this episode certainly don't rest on their laurels from the season opener. July 2009
  • Decoration could be chased or applied, such as borders of silver or gold, or floral swags, laurel wreaths, and stylized scrolls in varicolored gold.
  • The grain markets will remain volatile because the carryout is still very tight, said Mike Cockrell, chief financial officer of Laurel, Miss., chicken company Sanderson Farms Inc., whose shares rose more than 7% in the wake of the USDA reports. USDA Raises Forecasts for Corn, Wheat Exports
  • a prefiguration and mystical pointing out of the Pythian divineress, who used always, before the uttering of a response from the oracle, to shake a branch of her domestic laurel. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • There are times when someone decides that an album deserves plaudits, laurel wreaths and all round backslapping because it's an auspicious debut recorded without the help of some guy with a ponytail in a big office.
  • One is the bay laurel, often called sweet bay or simply the bay tree. Times, Sunday Times
  • I think that the avant-garde suggests that no poet can “rest on their laurels” for very long without reinventing the future of poetry itself — and hence, the avant-garde has often seen the need to revisit the neglected, unexalted techniques of writing for overlooked potentials …. 2007 September : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation - Part 2
  • Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier. Laurell K. Hamilton 
  • Laurel oaks, maples, pecans and sweetgum trees don't do as well.
  • This is the laurel that was also used to weave crowns for the head of a victor in battle, sport or poetry. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rich in Native American and pioneer history, the Appalachian Highlands boast an amazing plant diversity - from laurel to flowering dogwood - and more than 200 different kinds of birds.
  • Other mountain flora found here include rhododendron, azalea, galax, mountain laurel, pitch pine, table mountain pine, and various ferns. Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA)
  • Most amazingly, at 78, the veteran bluesman doesn't understand the concept of slowing down or resting on his laurels.
  • With time running down, the commission said management must develop alternative plans for stabling horses, including opening talks with Delaware Park, if Laurel is unready for training.
  • What the notes don't tell you is that the flexible sprays of bay leaves can still be shaped into a passable laurel crown. Christianity Today
  • From its subterranean source, the Wekiva meanders slow and clear past waving sawgrasses and under a moss-draped canopy of oak and laurel and longleaf pine.
  • The endearing bathos and crassness of Laurel found an admirable foil in the elephantine smugness of his rotund partner.
  • It is an easy drive on two lane roads that serpentine through the Laurel Mountains.
  • But don't rest on your laurels; there will probably still be room for improvement.
  • One of the reasons why the debate about this year's Hugos has been so ferocious and (at times) ill-tempered is because while there are no pluckily ambitious outsiders to root for (such as Watts 'Blindsight in 2007 or McDonald's Brazyl in 2008), the list is also ignoring breakthrough genre successes such as Stephenie Meyer and Laurel K. Hamilton. MIND MELD: The Hugo Awards - Success at Picking the Best, How Well it Represents the Genre, 2009 Predictions & Overlooked Titles
  • And as fires kindled dispersedly in a dry forest and rustling laurel-thickets, or foaming rivers where they leap swift and loud from high hills, and speed to sea each in his own path of havoc; as fiercely the two, Aeneas and Turnus, dash amid the battle; now, now wrath surges within them, and unconquerable hearts are torn; now in all their might they rush upon wounds. The Aeneid of Virgil
  • Page 58 that on Laurel River in Madison County is also said to be equal to the French, and in Montgomery County, on the Yadkin, the same resemblance to the French buhrstone exists. The Resources of North Carolina: Its Natural Wealth, Condition, and Advantages, as Existing in 1869. Presented to the Capitalists and People of the Central and Northern States
  • They are tedious, but the "waggery" is conspicuous by its absence.] {509} [mq] _With all his laurels growing upon one tree_. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6
  • The actors are very good, but when all is considered the laurels must surely go to the director of the play.
  • When most people would sit on their laurels and "give it up," Carter says "giddyup," teach me some more! Archive 2006-03-01
  • One day, Laurel comes upon a stranger playing his flute in the woods. Times, Sunday Times
  • No doubt that Cannes nod (the first of several festival laurels picked up) stirred some controversy, because this is the kind of unflinchingly provocative movie that dares you to be entertained, or appalled, or both. Reviews
  • Made with no artificial sweeteners (like saccharin), No Sodium Laurel Sulfate and No Propylene Glycol this toothpaste is safe, basic, effective and cheap what else do you want? 18 posts from March 2007
  • Laurel, a non-smoker, has emphysema, which has left her unable to work and dependent on an oxygen mask for the past five years.
  • Laurel is bemused by her husband's new-found enthusiasm for cricket and his frosty attitude towards the couple when she invites them to lunch. The Sun
  • Gustavian looking glasses were symmetrical, with decoration such as beading, rose swags, laurel leaf borders, palmettes, sheaves, and rope-tied crests.
  • Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror. Laurell K. Hamilton 
  • She looks like a champion with her laurel wreath.
  • The Cumberlands were covered with rich undergrowth of the red and white rhododendron, the delicate laurel, the mountain ivy, the flameazalea, the spicewood, and the cane; while the white stars of the dogwood and the carmine blossoms of the red-bud, strewn across the verdant background of the forest, gleamed in the eager air of spring. The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790
  • a light cast its broken image among the ripples, as it shone for an instant through the bosky laurel, white, stellular, splendid -- only a tallow dip suddenly placed in the window of a log-cabin, and as suddenly withdrawn. His "Day In Court" 1895
  • Ammonius began to jeer me for choosing a rose chaplet before a laurel, saying that those made of flowers were effeminate, and fitted toyish girls and women more than grave philosophers and men of music. Essays and Miscellanies
  • But even greater diversification is possible by using other members of the heath family such as Japanese andromeda (Pieris japonica), usually called 'pieris, and mountin laurel (Kalmia). Archive 2008-04-01
  • By Thursday, the bump is the size of a golf ball and Laurel is horribly distracted, worrying that it could be a tumor. WINGS YA BOOK CLUB : CHAPTERS 4-6 | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
  • Cut back overgrown specimens of spotted laurel, bay, box, fatsia, skimmia and evergreen cotoneaster.
  • Laurel and Hardy's best performances persuade you that humiliation is not all it's cracked up to be.
  • With their erect posture and heavily lidded eyes, the Eastern screech owls we are examining at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel look like imperious matrons. Duck, duck, owl: Patuxent research center is for the birds
  • Just as she said now she said she's willing to engage directly in Iran and primary voters are really looking for someone that isn't trying to cruise on their laurels and they want to know where she stands on the issues and she's kind of skirting some of those issues. CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2007
  • Perhaps he should have worn a laurel wreath. Times, Sunday Times
  • Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true. Laurell K. Hamilton 
  • Clearly, this is a delicate subject, Laurelle thought to herself.
  • The laurels usually go to the spatial designers who often design the planting detail as well. Times, Sunday Times
  • Since moving here, George has learned the names of almost all the things that are growing on the land: he can point out abelia bushes, spirea, laurels. The New Yorker Stories
  • In dress he affected a purple robe with a golden girdle, bronze sandals, and a Delphic laurel-wreath, and in his manner he was grave and cultivated a regal public persona.
  • Du Châtelet's mirror identifies her as the goddess of truth, while Voltaire sports a poet's laurel wreath as he assiduously transcribes the words of his female muse.
  • Numbers were practically meaningless to her, as she only barely could count to 100, something Laurel constantly nagged her about.
  • Then there was the case of the agonized apiarist: "My bees have swarmed away from their hive," he or she wrote on a Laurel Canyon email list. Jonathan Handel: The Laurel Canyon Goats Are Leaving!
  • And though his realistic and hard-hitting film has won some rave reviews, Tigmanshu is certainly not resting on his laurels.
  • What solitary humanist may have put up that inscription, coming out from Rome to commune in that wilderness, amid the rustle of the oakwood and of the laurel-trees, and the screaming of magpies and owls, with the togaed poets and philosophers of the Past? The Spirit of Rome
  • In the bottom of Radland valley, along the millstream, overgrown laurel and box hedges sprawl beneath the weight of snow and will remain in shadow all day. Country diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley
  • A land that wears a laurel crown may be fair to see; but twine a few sad cypress leaves around the brow of any land, and be that land barren, beautiless and bleak, it becomes lovely in its consecrated coronet of sorrow, and it wins the sympathy of the heart and of history. Father Ryan's Poems.
  • The laurels usually go to the spatial designers who often design the planting detail as well. Times, Sunday Times
  • Laurel puts herself in real danger when she discovers where her carjacker lives and follows him home. The Sun
  • The family of the heath, cranberry, pyrola, Andromeda, and mountain-laurel -- how do these blossoms welcome their insect friends? My Studio Neighbors
  • Their adaptive radiation occurred in the Eocene when palms, figs, lipid-rich laurels, and other extant families were prominent.
  • Every herdsman and shepherd knows the danger to be apprehended from the inclination of some of either kind to "sidle" off from the plain and beaten track and pluck the green leaves of the laurel to their own destruction. Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk
  • Other priorities like the $2.56 billion intercounty connector, the 18. 8-mile highway under construction between Gaithersburg and Laurel. What the ICC hath wrought
  • Laurel called to them, speaking of their snooty old riding instructor at the equestrian academy the girls had attended together most of their lives.
  • But at least we didn't come up with those laurel wreaths.
  • The two which, throughout the Northern Atlantic States, divide this interest are the _Epigaea repens_ (May-flower, ground-laurel, or trailing-arbutus) and the _Hepatica triloba_ (liverleaf, liverwort, or blue anemone). The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861
  • Like many poets she found that while she received considerable critical acclaim - prizes and so forth - there was little else on offer besides laurel wreaths. Times, Sunday Times
  • There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just mean you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it. Laurell K. Hamilton 
  • I dove to my left again, and this time rolled into a somersault that landed me in a thicket of mountain laurel at the base of the ridge.
  • At Laurel Hill, you can spot waders such as herons, egrets, bitterns and glossy ibis, and predators such as ospreys, hawks, falcons and owls, with even the occasional bald eagle.
  • I crawled to the back end of the mountain laurel thicket.
  • Laurel Ptak, the woman behind iheartphotograph, a personal friend, old Gawker photographer and the curator of the exhibit In Real Life, is attempting to "assemble the world's largest archive of photographs transmitted via telefacsimile" today until 4 pm. Gawker
  • If recent tragic revivals are anything to go by, she is likely to emerge highly laurelled. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier. Laurell K. Hamilton 
  • Mounds, called hummocks, are the growing medium though which tangles of swamp laurel, Labrador tea, salal and native cranberries and blueberries grow.
  • The firing direction points only to impassible tangles of mountain laurel and hummocky swamp behind my earth filled 55 gallon drums for backstop. Guns = "Unhealthy" Lifestyle?
  • It is true that they were steps that lingered, divagated, and mounted with the deliberation natural to one past sixty whose arms, moreover, are full of leaves and blossoms; but they came on steadily, and soon a tap of laurel boughs against the door arrested Katharine's pencil as it touched the page. Night and Day
  • So I sat stewing in my discomfort while Laurel took several more deep breaths and recovered herself. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • Three years ago, he conceived another child with his longtime paramour, Laurel Kenner.
  • The star and annulets are surrounded by a wreath of laurel which follows the contour of the medal.
  • Laurel had never before thought to question the morality of what she was doing; she had merely done what was necessary to find out the truth.
  • Once beyond the gates the short avenue, covered overhead with ancient laurels, leads on to a circular drive in front of the house with the centre of the grassed area featuring roses and a raised bird bath.
  • Other than the occasional patch of mountain laurel, it was a very thinly wooded area.
  • They left the rock and hunted on, going netherward into a damp swale rich with the odor of places where galax grows, descending through scattered clumps of twisted laurel to a thin creek. Cold Mountain
  • Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't. Laurell K. Hamilton 
  • ‘We might not have that long, if Laurel keeps this up,’ Lucas said under his breath as another explosion caused a brief brown-out.
  • The day's troubles seemed to waste away as Laurel looked down at her brother's innocent, cherubic blue eyes and pale blonde hair.
  • It is a gorgeously effete, nearly 3-foot bronze sculpture of a supplicant ephebe wearing a laurel crown, his thin arms upraised.
  • Something else apparent is the multiple mythoi melting pot/crossover: from the sequences where Vampire Hunter D was visiting the surrealistic court of vampire servitors I now have a better idea of what Laurell Hamilton's eventual Anita Blake-meets-Meredith Gentry story is going to be like at least in part. Dust&bleach, ozone, buffalo&garlic, chai, blood, and ginger
  • Only got your third choice at the slightly less laurelled comp? Times, Sunday Times
  • NASA can't cut it anymore; the agency has lost its way, and is mired in resting on its laurels, rather than setting goals for its future, and our country, that is beyond our grasp. Dear Santa - NASA Watch
  • : The experimental 'Schwarzwald' movie comes to Town Leather Laurels: Celebrating Mid-Atlantic Leather's quarter century in style Metro Weekly (Newspaper Magazine of Gay and Lesbian DC)
  • Among the others are tanoaks, California black oaks, Shreve's oaks, madrones, rhododendrons, manzanita, big leaf maples and bay laurels.
  • That night, while Laurel was brushing her teeth, I stared out our window at the cruise ships docked in the harbor.
  • And you look at the eagles, the massive bronze eagles in the victory arches and the laurel wreaths.
  • Behind a laurel bush, Adriana stripped and lowered herself into the water.
  • As When _Dinocrates_ the famous architect, desirous to be knowen to king _Alexander_ the great, and hauing none acquaintance to bring him to the kings speech he came one day to the Court very strangely apparelled in long skarlet robes, his head compast with a garland of Laurell, and his face all to be slicked with sweet oyle, and stoode in the kings chamber, motioning nothing to any man: newes of this stranger came to the king, who caused him to be brought to his presence, and asked his name and the cause of his repaire to the The Arte of English Poesie
  • Fairly well drained, rocky or gravelly soil is the Laurel's natural preference.
  • Money doesn't spend in hell... The devil deals in a different coin. Laurell K. Hamilton 
  • Q: Could you give me some information on cherry laurel, sago palm and elaeagnus?
  • Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight. Laurell K. Hamilton 
  • Black gum (Nyssa sylvatica Marshall.), red maple, and sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum (L.) DC.) occupied the subcanopy, and mountain laurel dominated the understory.
  • On the left side of the panel, two barefoot attendants approach the altar, clad in short tunics and wearing laurel wreaths.
  • With the doors and windows sealed, the air should be purified by sprinkling perfumes and scents and by burning aromatic woods such as laurel, myrtle, rosemary and cypress.
  • In other processes which are usually called purificatory, magic seems to survive: the word _februum_, from which comes the name of our second month, meant an object with magical potency, such as water, fire, sulphur, laurel, wool, or the strips of the victims sacrificed at the The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
  • But don't miss a hike with botanist Stephane Rogliano through the maquis, the hypnotically fragrant cover of shrubs and wild herbs (mint, thyme, laurel, rosemary) that spreads over much of the island. Dream Hideaways: The World's Top Microboutique Hotels
  • Gather the required foliage, eg, berried ivy, box, laurel. Times, Sunday Times
  • I know that our laurelled entrepreneur of regional and international acclaim is into the production of alcoholic beverages.
  • Woodrow Wilson, college professor, man of mystery, political recluse, the nominee of the most standpat Democratic convention of many years, had been chosen the leader of the people of the state by the unprecedented majority of 39,000, and was wearing the laurels of victory. Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
  • Victorious motor racing drivers have laurels hung around their necks and in Hawaii visitors are greeted with welcoming leis.
  • That night, while Laurel was brushing her teeth, I stared out our window at the cruise ships docked in the harbor.
  • Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror. Laurell K. Hamilton 
  • It's very special because it's got papal wreaths embossed all over it in little green laurel leaves. The Sun
  • The Canadians, about 1000 strong, were "a sicht for sair e'en," as the Scots would say, a hale, well-grown, muscular set of men, who evidently appreciated the magnificent reception that was accorded them, and who as evidently meant to earn laurels in the service of the great Queen Mother. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899
  • In it, Laurel got to show off her newest series of paintings, ink and watercolor drawings, sculptures and other works - all of which have been described as erudite, evil, haunting, mysterious, beautiful and charming (read an interview of Laurel in the DCist here). Charlottesville Blogs
  • When Laurel emerged from the bathroom, gargling with mouthwash, I didn't share that fantasy with her.
  • Delarue is wrong in blaming the correction of Jacob Gronovius in changing the laurel into a sardel. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
  • Its flora is dominated by ferns, pines, Sequoia, laurels, and Platanus.
  • Laurel reminded the worried farrier as she pulled on a doeskin coat and boots.
  • A laurel forest now covered the lawn except for a patch kept trimmed by rabbits round the trunk of the beech tree. Molly Keane's Ireland
  • With the luxury market now soaring, Ng is not resting on his laurels and says he expects a duplex on the 79th and 80th floors to fetch an even higher price.
  • There are stately pine forests extending along the centre of the island; but the most beautiful of its trees are what are commonly called dogwood, the laurel, and a delicate species of the white oak. North Carolina and its Resources.
  • Hatred makes us all ugly. Laurell K. Hamilton 
  • Olea europea, Cerotonia siliqua, Pistacia palestina, Ficus, and Laurel are all very important species in the local human culture. Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests
  • Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror. Laurell K. Hamilton 
  • As those insects which have many spiracula, or breathing apertures, as wasps and flies, are immediately suffocated by pouring oil upon them, I carefully covered with oil the surfaces of several leaves of phlomis, of Portugal laurel, and balsams, and though it would not regularly adhere, I found them all die in a day or two. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
  • The most common rewards were crowns of different forms; the mural crown was presented to him who in the assault first scaled the rampart of a town; the castral, to those who were foremost in storming the enemy's entrenchments; the civic chaplet of oak leaves, to the soldier who saved his comrade's life in battle, and the triumphal laurel wreath to the general who commanded in a successful engagement. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
  • From the Telegraph to the Guardian, from the Mail to the Mirror, he was laurelled in admiring headlines.
  • All of this will lead to some explosive moments later in the play, but for now the easily anticipated and telegraphed surprise at the end of this scene is that Laurel is back in town, having collected Matthew on her short jaunt Outside.
  • There were the pines, the sycamore, the foxwood and dogwood, and lime and laurel and poplar and elder and willow, and the cherry and crab apple and others of the fruit-bearing kind, since so developed that they are great factors in man's subsistence now. The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man
  • However, the piano trio is his real métier and as he approaches his 80th year, and in spite of a stroke in 1993, he does not rest on his laurels.
  • -- of Michelle Malkin's "In Defense of Internment," which, notwithstanding its ignorance and falsification of both domestic and military history, has garnered (equally ignorant) laurels from the right. IsThatLegal?
  • Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror. Laurell K. Hamilton 
  • Finally we came to a plateau covered with a kind of gorse, and with laurel bushes scattered here and there; pushing through this, we wound, by a gradual ascent, to the summit of Whiteside, and the edge of the precipice. The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
  • The stronger or less diluted the spirit is taken, the sooner it seems to destroy, as in dram-drinkers; but still sooner, when kernels of apricots, or bitter almonds, or laurel-leaf, are infused in the spirit, which is termed ratafia; as then two poisons are swallowed at the same time. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop. Laurell K. Hamilton 
  • I'm also looking at cherry laurel or wax myrtle as a privacy hedge.
  • There the glancing foliage obscures heaven, as the silken texture of a veil a woman's lovely features: beneath such fretwork we may indulge in light-hearted thoughts; or, if sadder meditations lead us to seek darker shades, we may pass the cascade towards the large groves of pine, with their vast undergrowth of laurel, reaching up to the Belvidere; or, on the opposite side of the water, sit under the shadow of the silver-stemmed birch, or beneath the leafy pavilions of those fine old beeches, whose high fantastic roots seem formed in nature's sport; and the near jungle of sweet-smelling myrica leaves no sense unvisited by pleasant ministration. The Mourner
  • She was wearing black with a black straw hat with a deep brim like a laurel wreath.
  • The laurels clearly go to Speke when it comes to discovering the source of the Nile. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Like many poets she found that while she received considerable critical acclaim - prizes and so forth - there was little else on offer besides laurel wreaths. Times, Sunday Times
  • The laurel tree, which Correggio renders with great naturalism, simultaneously evokes notions of fidelity, chastity, and poetic attainment.
  • One day Laurel stumbles on a stranger, a tattered young man who plays the flute. Times, Sunday Times
  • Reaction in the press was generally of intense respect: at eighty-one his was a long and ultimately laurelled literary career.
  • It's almost impossible to buy a soap, shampoo or bubble bath which does not contain synthetic sodium laurel sulphate or sodium laureth sulphate.
  • He was a votary of the esoteric Eton religion, the kind of graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favors and crowned with all the laurels, who is liked by the masters and admired by the boys without any apparent exertion on his part, without experiencing the ill-effects of success himself or arousing the pangs of envy in others. Arrested Development
  • Yet some of the non-Latino workers who stood up and applauded as the federal agents led away Hispanic co-workers, told reporters that "busloads" of Latinos had been arriving in Laurel to take jobs. HispanicTrending
  • Comedy genius Sellers, famed for his talent as a mimic, gets the lofty laurel of ‘the most accurate’ Scottish accent captured on film.
  • The laurel and ivy are so woven together that without cutting it is impossible to force through. MEASURING AMERICA
  • Ironically while it won't grow here, its close relative the camphor laurel grows only too well.
  • When she mounted the podium to accept her latest gold medal, she was crowned with a laurel wreath as the tournament committee adopted an Athens-style celebratory theme.
  • After years of resting on its laurels, Milan is finding its mojo again. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bay laurel or sweet bay. Winter Garden Glory

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