Example Sentences

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Smiles—that dimpled mouth are wreathing; Music—those rosy lips are breathing, Like morn glancing through the sky, Like the zephyr’s softest sigh.

From The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland by Various

The "flowery band" of Keats's song Our Empire's sons to-day are wreathing; Long may it bind, and blossom long.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 13, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

Scuds of floating wrack are wreathing the tree-tops and boulders higher up the bush-grown slopes, and the grey, opaque, lowering sky renders the desolate waste yet more gloomy and forbidding.

From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram

Heaven bestow "Sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing," One thing above all others know, Ye who the earth-round band are wreathing, To-day, to-morrow, any day, You're "Welcome as the flowers in May!"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 13, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir