A tall lithe savage, bearing upon his arms and ankles the ivory bracelets of the royal house and the elephant hair chaplet of the warrior, advanced leisurely towards him from the banana plantation.
"Witch-Doctors"
Charles Beadle
Fearful of precipitating myself into the pit beneath, if I made the least effort, and half wild with terror and amazement, I stared about like a maniac, while a beautiful young woman tripped along the edge of the box, supported by her companion's hand, and placed lightly upon my brow a chaplet of roses and laurel.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
It has been a beautiful summer here too; and now, sad to say, it is counting the last beads of its chaplet of hot days out-the hot days which are really the absolutely friendly ones to man-you wish they would get cooler when you have them, and when they are departed, you wish you could have their exquisite gentleness again.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James