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Throughout the pageant, its entire acts and marches, patriotic airs should be played as much as possible.
At this instant the shining pageant appears, and files in at the door, with a measured march.
He finally returns to Cuzco and gives an account of a very magnificent pageant and tilting match.
Presently, when the pageants are all over, I shall settle down to be a sober prince enough.
Such pageants were not uncommon in municipal life, and were everywhere to the taste of the people.
Nor was the crown an every-day ornament to be displayed by royalty on solemn occasions of pageant.
This is perhaps because he fills the "Pageant" which he describes with human love and human regrets.
I cannot remember his ever having taken part in any fashionable pageant or demonstration of any kind.
The pageant wound in and out, around the gray stone buildings, a long thread of living color.
As for pageants, they were so splendid that he was unhappy, indeed, who could not remember one.
This splendid pageant of London trade is daily offered for the admiration of those upon the wall.
The giants seem to have been omitted from the Royal pageants and processions of the seventeenth century.
We could endure a born sovereign, especially if made such a mere pageant as the English make of theirs.
His principal guard walked before him, and was placed within the rails, round about the pageant.
Four other small shrines followed, and before the pageant was over, the afternoon was nearly consumed.
The display of this night pageant was gorgeous and beautiful beyond anything ever before seen in this country.
Here the writer gives a description of the pieces represented, which were kinds of allegories and historical pageants.
It was afternoon of the day following the pageant, and this was their last Vigilante meeting.
As a professional dramatist he has been prolific to the extent of some twenty-five plays, pageants, and operas.
A scream of delight arose from the spectators, who looked upon the occurrence as part of the pageant.
Mind sits as a spectator while the pageant passes, called up before our eyes by some unnamed power.
She had hurried through this little pageant of other generations, and was at the last pages.
In 1554, when Philip came to London, there was a great pageant to receive him with the Queen.
When a high festival was to be celebrated, the procession took on the picturesque dignity of a pageant.
And believe you me, I have run more Miss America beauty pageants than you can shake a stick at.
Around the carpeted floor, those who have taken part in the pageant march in their grotesque costumes.
He carried letters of introduction to every one and moved in a sort of sublime pageant as he traveled.
It was impossible to remove the eyes from this sign until the gesture pageant had completed itself.
How blue the sky was, how clear the sunshine, how glorious the autumn pageant of the hills!
What does this mind, sitting there far off in the dark, looking out, comprehend of the pageant?
These were set up in 1708, but the appearance of giants in city pageants is of much earlier date.
Added to his taste for dress and pageants, he delighted in collecting precious furniture, pictures, and jewels.
When so conducted, the school work that precedes the presentation of a pageant has many valuable features.
It was all a pageant of pure pleasure, and I walked on air, eating the fruit of the Hesperides.
The picture shows it being used in a present-day pageant, filled with boys and girls in colonial costumes.
He would marry, retire from pageant and splendor even as his father had done years and years ago.
The world is no longer in her eyes the bright world it was, but a hollow, heartless pageant.
This pageant well played, it is likely all this realm shall be in better quiet during our lives.
Old comrades, lifelong friends, statesmen and great civilians have followed the mournful pageant with fruitless regrets.
"Such a pageant as we contemplate cannot be run without the expenditure of considerable sums in preliminary expenses."
Once more the pageant of the wilderness moved on its mysterious way, this time from north to south.
Was the only comment heard as his heels conducted both himself and the pageant that followed.
Andrew tried to believe it all a vain pageant; but thoughts will enter, though the doors be shut.
I stood entranced as this pageant of pleasure swept past me, and a strange thought seized my fancy.
Theaters are sure to be decked on great festival or pageant days, the popular pulse beating strongest there.
The pathway brings us to the island where a pageant took place in honor of Sir Henry Sidney.
On a summer afternoon a beautiful out-of-door pageant could be enacted by Robin Hood and his Merry Men.
A great part of the morning, therefore, passed away before there were any signs of the distant pageant.
Gathering gloom diminished the wide glory of the sky, and slowly robbed the pageant of its color.
Choice of the time of day in which the pageant is given has much to do with its effectiveness.
It was the day fixed for the opening of the most brilliant pageant known to modern history.
It is not as it was before the troubles began; there are few amusements, and no reviews or pageants.
I believe that pageant made rather a sensation, and of course, well, I was the principal figure in it.
Come with them to the Pageant Ground, where all is arranged now and ready, waiting the signal!
After they had finished, their pageant would be dragged to another station, where they repeated their performance.
Stepping forth, then, into the open fields, what a bright pageant of Summer beauty is spread out before us!
Through this passage, like a young queen in a pageant, the girl he had rescued rode atop the truck.
Come, sir, pray use me like a gentleman; let me not be carried through the streets like a pageant.
This pageant was childish enough, but not more so than the reason for its being placed there.
Everything went off very well, except a portion of the water pageant, which was not a success.
The pageant was strictly military, and is described by the letters of that day as exceedingly brilliant.
At Monroe on June 7 the commencement exercises of the high school took the form of a historical pageant.
The queen laughed much at the pageant, and gave the performers two bucks and five marks in money.
What a pity the English cannot borrow our bright blue skies in which to exhibit their royal pageants!
It was probably put up for the decoration of a pageant, and, being found useful, was kept up.
Now this is not an easy task when you are reviewing, in many pages, the gorgeous pageant of an age.
It is commonly hidden like a mystery, and sometimes paraded like a pageant, but in neither case is it contentious.
These pageants displayed a great deal of imagination and mechanical skill, and sometimes cost nearly a thousand pounds.
The pageants and probably the plays of Robin Hood are still alive in the seventeenth century and later.
At length the music burst out into a terrific explosion of sound, and onward marched the martial pageant.
This tournament seems to have been more of a pageant than a serious contest like those of the fifteenth century.
In the ceremonies of his pageants, in the ornaments of his person, were invariably introduced mystic and figurative emblems.
I assure you that the great pageant would have been just as interesting from any other point of view.
The pageant also, once more paying tribute to Wisdom, was noble and beautiful as in the days of Phidias.
He has not been our way again since April, but I met him at the Pro-Cathedral Pageant in January.
To represent a pageant with broad historic effects one must have many characters and a great deal of perspective.
The Georgetown reached New York in time to take part in a grand naval pageant on the Hudson River.
He brings that great pageant out of its own time into ours, rather than sends us back to it.
The Procession may be divided into three parts: the Military, the funeral Pageant proper, and the Mourners.
This is the briefest extract, the merest glimpse of the moving pageant that fills the suburban stage.
Forty-eight different Companies took part in this pageant, commencing with the Tanners and ending with the Mercers.
Olivier, a mere pawn in this pageant of pride and passion, stood to one side, playing with his sword.
In truth, nothing was lacking to make this pageant a memorable one in the fullest sense of the term.
After that he would look on for a while, enjoying the beauty of the pageant, and then slip out.
Coriolanus, banner, and pageant, all went for nothing to me, after she had walked to her place.
Indeed, I felt a kind of Puritan tremor of conscience at witnessing such a theatrical pageant on the Sabbath.
The heights of the enemy's position were crowded with men who resembled people come to witness some mighty pageant.
Can we really believe that they take no part and feel no pride in those magnificent pageants on the ocean?
It was a chilly, dismal day in April, and all the town was absorbed in the imposing pageant.
Solemn writers have not disdained to describe to the minutest details many of the pageants which they witnessed.
The pageant would be presented in the clear green space with the grove of shadowy trees as background.
Fifth Avenue at shopping time, for example, ceases to be a street: it becomes a pageant of youth and grace.
In that wonderful pageant which these eyes saw last year was embodied her majesty, was promised her eternity.
The pageant in this country has an opportunity that almost no other land on the globe can afford.
The long line swept onward, a glittering pageant of scarlet and blue, of shining steel and fluttering banners.
He was magnificent at designing pageants; and of one of his exploits in this kind, we shall hear more presently.
It was as if they stood still, while all this restless pageant went by them in brilliant sequence.
The whole pageant seemed too beautiful for reality, and John Garnet felt as if he were hunting in a dream.
The general, with his staff, appeared in full uniform, that the scene might not be lacking in pageant.
Royalty, stripped of its reality, is largely become a mere matter of show, a part of the pageant of State.