flower-crowned

There were no flower-crowned men and maidens, no brown babies rolling in the shade of the avocado trees.

THE DEVILS OF FUATINO 2010

As the chain roared and surged through the hawse-pipe he noticed a number of native women, lusciously large as only those of Polynesia are, in flowing ahu's, flower-crowned, stream out on the deck of the schooner on the beach.

THE DEVILS OF FUATINO 2010

And his kahilis were waved over me, and his attendants were mine, and he was mine; and from my flower-crowned hair to my happy feet I was a woman loved.

ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010

They sing, and dance, and all are flower-bejewelled and flower-crowned.

Good-bye, Jack 2010

These, in turn, were crowded out by Japanese women, doll-like, stepping mincingly on wooden clogs; by Eurasians, delicate featured, stamped with degeneracy; by full-bodied South-Sea-Island women, flower-crowned and brown-skinned.

Chapter 1 2010

Greenford, a fair picture of the Blessed, and they walking in the meads of Paradise, clad in like raiment, men and women; their heads flower-crowned, their feet naked in the harmless blossomed grass; hand in hand they walk, with all wrath passed for ever, all desire changed into loving-kindness, all the anguish of forgiveness forgotten.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

I shall make an end of merry drinking parties, and of flower-crowned feasts and of the music which possessed my house.

Alcestis 2007

I shall make an end of merry drinking parties, and of flower-crowned feasts and of the music which possessed my house.

Alcestis 2007

The evening of the day we landed, parties of officers and ladies mounted at the door, and with much mirth disappeared on moonlight rides, and the white robes of flower-crowned girls gleamed among the trees, as groups of natives went by speaking a language which sounded more like the rippling of water than human speech.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Faded into shadow that white mosaic of flower-crowned faces set in the amphitheatre of jet, and vast shadows dropped upon the high-flung tiers and shrouded them.

The Moon Pool 2004