At the hotel a strong-armed cortege bore Bull to a bed, and they carried him reverently.

It was, in fact, from the reputation of this city in matters of external show that our English term Milliner was probably derived; and one might well have believed this, who saw the sweep of the ducal cortege at this moment returning in pomp from the afternoon airing.

I was at first somewhat alarmed at finding ourselves surrounded by so formidable a cortege; they however only exacted a declaration of our political principles, and we purchased our safety by a few smiles, and exclamations of vive la nation!

I know not how your English patriots, who are so enamoured of French liberty, yet thunder with the whole force of their eloquence against the ingress of an exciseman to a tobacco warehouse, would reconcile this domestic inquisition; for the municipalities here violate your tranquillity in this manner under any pretext they choose, and that too with an armed cortege sufficient to undertake the siege of your house in form.

The five hundred workmen of the establishment followed the hearse, notabilities of all sorts made up an immense cortege.

The men walked beside the horses to prevent collision, for as far as eye could see, the lamentable cortege extended down the hill.

This declining sun, and the moon and stars that will soon follow in the pathway of its chariot, like a liveried cortege, shone upon that scene with all the light they will give this day and night.

It was a marvellous cortege, flowery like springtide, full of felicity, which moved every heart.

She danced, sang, clapped her hands, and finally exclaimed: "Ah! for a pretty cortege this will be fine indeed.

Then a slow and melancholy cortege headed by four bearers wound its solemn way across the marshes to the family vault in the grey old church, and all that was left of Ursula was placed by the father and mother who had taken that self-same journey some thirty years before.

But Paris arrived on the scene with Denis and his wife Marthe, who headed a grand cortege.