festoon

Example Sentences

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Fling beauty, grace and sweetness round, Festoon your lives with flowers, But ne'er forget that plainest things Are life's most precious dowers.

From Mother Truth's Melodies Common Sense For Children by Miller, Mrs. E. P.

They are a "Festoon of Flowers and Fruits with a Medallion in the Centre, on which is a Landscape"; and a "Garland of Flowers with a Similar Medallion."

From Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Waters, Clara Erskine Clement

Though they leap all the way the pillar leads, Festoon about the marble, foot to frieze, And serpentiningly enrich the roof, Toy with some few bees and a bird or two,— What then?

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)

Festoon the sides of the scenery and the ceiling with spruce and flowers.

From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by Head, James H.

Here, more Curiosities in Mildew, hanging from the Roof; and one a Festoon as big as the great Sausage in the Pork-Shop at the Corner of Bow Street.

From Manners & Cvftoms of ye Englyfhe Drawn from ye Qvick by Doyle, Richard