Crossword-Solution: GARLANDS 8 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Here in close recess With Flowers, Garlands, and sweet-smelling Herbs Espoused _Eve_ deckt first her Nuptial Bed, And heav’nly Quires the Hymenaean sung, What day the genial Angel to our Sire Brought her in naked beauty more adorn’d, More lovely then _Pandora_, whom the Gods Endowd with all thir gifts, and O too like In sad event, when to the unwiser Son Of _Japhet_ brought by _Hermes_, she ensnar’d Mankind with her faire looks, to be aveng’d On him who had stole _Joves_ authentic fire.

Tufts and garlands of green foliage decorated the walls, beams, and extemporized chandeliers, and immediately opposite to Oak a rostrum had been erected, bearing a table and chairs.

While this dirge was sung, in a low and melancholy tone, by the female choristers, the others were divided into two bands, of which one was engaged in bedecking, with such embroidery as their skill and taste could compass, a large silken pall, destined to cover the bier of Athelstane, while the others busied themselves in selecting, from baskets of flowers placed before them, garlands, which they intended for the same mournful purpose.

Still grander are the gifts of heaven which Musaeus and his son vouchsafe to the just; they take them down into the world below, where they have the saints lying on couches at a feast, everlastingly drunk, crowned with garlands; their idea seems to be that an immortality of drunkenness is the highest meed of virtue.

Perhaps we might run a painted frieze round under the cornice--garlands of roses on a gold ground; it would tell wonderfully in a white room." The Colonel returned less courageously to the charge.