laurel-crowned

At the Exposition a formal presentation of a laurel wreath was made to her by Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President of the University of California, and the Board of Regents, with the title "loved, laurel-crowned poet of California."

Jack London's Literary Mother 2010

If an old Roman of the period of the Republic had returned to life, and talked of the impending election of some laurel-crowned consul, or of the last battle with Mithridates, his ideas would not have been more alien to the times, than the conversation of

The Last Man 2003

We honour you both this evening as the laurel-crowned heroes of intellectual creation and express our conviction that, in the words of Alfred Nobel, you have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind, and that you have given it clearsightedness, wisdom, uplift, and beauty.

Shmuel Agnon - Banquet Speech 1966

We honour you both this evening as the laurel-crowned heroes of intellectual creation and express our conviction that, in the words of Alfred Nobel, you have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind, and that you have given it clearsightedness, wisdom, uplift, and beauty.

Nelly Sachs - Banquet Speech 1966

The khaki-clad warriors and laurel-crowned victors, blood stained and weary from the struggle of the recent battle, have sought a well earned and much needed repose.

The Battle of Bayan and Other Battles John J. Reidy

That would surely be an interesting work which would glean for us the multiplied expressions of the faith of the 'laurel-crowned,' who have left their consoling records for humanity, their tracks of light over the dark earth-bosom in which they sleep.

The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Below, and seated on the rich rugs which cover the marble pavement, musicians and singers pause to listen to impassioned words from a laurel-crowned poet, while further on a sort of orchestra plays time for the sensuous dance of lithe-bodied Oriental dancers -- each woman of them more ravishing than the other.

The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal Various

Then came Ovid, laurel-crowned, and began to sing: --

My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

Niobe when she came upon the adoring crowd that, laurel-crowned, bore frankincense to lay before the altars of the gods whose glories they had assembled together to celebrate.

A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang

Those who often convince themselves that they have failed go on to perform a more useful service to society than the laurel-crowned virtuoso.

Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression James Francis Cooke 1917