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Walt Disney himself, laurelled by the White House as the “Creator of an American Folklore,” claimed the mantle of innocence, describing Mickey as “Youth, the Great Unlicked and Uncontaminated.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2019
The most laurelled of black composers, Ellington was honored on his 70th birthday with a dinner and jam session at the White House.
From Time ● Oct. 24, 2011
The boy perched disconsolately on the rotting fence threw forth his lament aloud to the laurelled silences of the mountain sides and the emptiness of space.
From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville
A very clever etching of a winged and laurelled Death playing on the bagpipe and making his appearance to an old couple at table.
From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis
But, honoured Gage, why droops thy laurelled head?—
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Freneau, Philip
