Read these romances now, with their knights and fair ladies, their perilous adventures and tender love-making, their minstrelsy and tournaments and gorgeous cavalcades,as if humanity were on parade, and life itself were one tumultuous holiday in the open air,and you have an epitome of the whole childish, credulous soul of the Middle Ages.

Throughout the hours succeeding the morning's struggle, Lee, attended by Generals Hill and Longstreet, and their staff-officers, rode along the lines, reconnoitring the opposite heights, and the cavalcade was more than once saluted by bullets from the enemy's sharp-shooters, and an occasional shell.

The small windows and the roof were crowded with men, women, and children, gazing at our singular cavalcade.

cabalgata, f., cavalcade.

What of those who met this ignominious cavalcade?

Those who happened to see it pass described this cavalcade as almost beyond conception.

Near the front of the great cavalcade was a wagon different in build and appearance to any of the others.

The utmost confidence prevailed, and hearty cheers were given as the cavalcade crossed the Kansas State line and commenced its long and dreary march through the rich blue grass of the Cherokee Strip.

Orlando was buried in a great sepulchre in Aquisgrana, and the dead Paladins were all embalmed and sent with majestic cavalcades to their respective counties and principalities, and every Christian was honourably and reverently put in the earth, and recorded among the martyrs of the Church.

And now we see the gorgeous cavalcade, Within the walls in Accad's grand parade They pass, led by the maidens crowned with flowers, Who strew the path with fragrance;to the towers And walls and pillars of each door bright cling The garlands.

Jack pointed to his cavalcade waiting in the half shadows, where the lamp-rays grew thin.

He stepped to one side to let Firio and his little cavalcade pass.

From this lofty eyrie they could witness reviews of the troops and catch glimpses of the gay cavalcades that came in and out of the fortress, and in a small courtyard was a bazar where certain favored merchants from the city were allowed to come and exhibit goods to the ladies of the court.

About two miles from Dunsinane, his Excellency was met by a cavalcade composed of the late apprentices, who were preceded by Messrs. Bourne, Hamilton, and Kent, late Special Justices.

In shining cavalcades they rode forth for glory in their lady's name.

Next morning, as the cavalcade of southern knights was starting, Wallace rode up and handed the dagger to De Valence.

The cavalcade slowly approached and drew up at the front door.

My cavalcade consisted of a Montenegrin soldier for guide, a Montenegrin student, and the horse-boy, necessary to lead the horses when, as was the case for a large part of the way, we could not ride them; and halfway down to Rieka we were overtaken by a deaf-mute porter, sent as a kind afterthought by the Prince, with a samovar and a provision of tea, sugar, etc., in view of the dearth of comforts beyond.

His sleep was filled with dim, vast images; measureless cavalcades deploying to the sound of orchestral music; an endless succession of vaulted halls, with staircases climbing to heaven, up which toiled eternally the same solitary figure.

The dream commenced with a music which now I often heard in dreamsa music of preparation and of awakening suspense, a music like the opening of the Coronation Anthem, and which, like that, gave the feeling of a vast march, of infinite cavalcades filing off, and the tread of innumerable armies.

Never was there a more crestfallen and sorry-looking cavalcade.

There are no cavalcades in the cold depths of those redwood forests, and the ocean beats against ragged cliffs.

It is well that he see the splendor of the Iturbi y Moncadas,our pageants and our gay diversions, our cavalcades of beauty and elegance under a canopy of smiling blue.

I loved to spend on scent and toilette knick-knacks as much as would keep a poor man's family in affluence for ten months; and I smiled at the fashionable sunlight in the Park, the dusty cavalcades; and I loved to shock my friends by bowing to those whom I should not bow to.

All this had an anti-Parisian touch, a mercantile appearance, more brutal and yet less wretched than those worthless bindings of French books; here and there, in the midst of the opened albums, reproducing humorous scenes from Du Maurier and John Leech, or the delirious cavalcades of Caldecott, some French novels appeared, blending placid and satisfied vulgarities to these rich verjuice hues.