655 examples of pageants in sentences

But, if thus addicted to funeral pageants, it is needless to say that weddings occupied their full proportion of her thoughts.

She appears again to take part in innumerable pageants, such as that in which Henry VIII.

All these, sieges or pageants, however, what are they but a tale that is told.

"And believe you me, I have run more Miss America beauty pageants than you can shake a stick at.

He there throws some ridicule upon Don Antonio Balladino (as he calls Munday), and Mr Gifford was of opinion that Middleton meant to censure him in his "Triumphs of Truth," as the impudent "common writer" of city pageants; but this is hardly consistent with the mention Middleton introduces of Munday at the close of that performance.

The rest which are mentioned in his letters, and those of his friends, are his Dying Pelicane, his Pageants, Stemmata Dudleyana, the Canticles paraphrazed, Ecclesiastes, Seven Psalms, Hours of our Lord, Sacrifice of a Sinner, Purgatory, a S'ennight Slumber, the Court of Cupid, and Hell of Lovers.

E.K., in his commentary on the Shepheards Calender, quotes a line closely resembling this from Spenser's Pageants: "An hundred Graces on her eyelids sat.

Of this worlds theatre in which we stay, My Love, like the spectator, ydly sits, Beholding me, that all the pageants play, Disguysing diversly my troubled wits.

And in excess of admiration at one of the Laureate's most successful pageants, Herrick breaks forth, "Thou hadst the wreath before, now take the tree, That henceforth none be laurel-crowned but thee."

He also devoted himself to the cultivation of Ben Jonson, then at the summit of renown, assisting in an amateur way in the preparation of the court pageants, and otherwise mitigating the Laureate's labors.

Music, heart-breaking lamentations, and pitiful echoes recurred frequently in the most magnificent of these nightly pageants.

fence before the pageants And make roome for the porters, when like Elephants They carry once a yeare the Citty Castles, Or goe a feasting with the Drum and foot boyes To the Bankeside and save the Beares a whipping That day thou art cudgeld for thy saucy challenging A sergeant with one eye, that was to much too.

The passengers too many to ensure your quiet, or let you go about whistling, or gapingtoo few to be the fine indifferent pageants of Fleet Street.

St. Louis has, for many years in succession, enjoyed the pageants and balls of its Veiled Prophets, an organization as secret and mysterious as any to be found in a Creole section.

The parade takes place after night-fall, and consists of very costly pageants and displays.

Venice was once at the head of the European naval powers; 'her merchants were princes, and her traffickers the honorable of the earth,' but now "'Her pageants on the sunny waves are gone, Her glory lives in memory's page alone.'

Christian says: Their Hevas or dramatic entertainments, pageants and tableaus, of varying degrees of grossness, similar to the more elaborate and polished products of the early Javanese and Peruvian drama ... one cannot help fancying must be all pieces out of the same puzzle ...

The truth seems to be, that honest Doeg was poet-laureate to the city, and earned some emolument by composing verses for pageants and other occasions of civic festivity; so that when the Tory interest resumed its ascendency among the magistrates, he had probably no alternative but to relinquish his principles or his post, and Elkanah, like many greater men, held the former the easier sacrifice.

I tell you, boy, there were parades, caravans, pageants of goats in thereall happy in the stone-crop....

How to produce plays and pageants.

RUSSELL, MARY M. Pageants for special days in the church year.

RUSSELL, MARY M. Pageants for special days in the church year.

Ah! Bernard, say our pageants were not wasted, Not vain the Adjutant's laborious blush! Was it to Maud this glowing morn you hasted With yonder bauble in its bed of plush

Though opposed to war, they all took a deep interest in the national excitement and in the pageants that heralded the expected arrival of the hero from Saint Helena.

This color surrounded the artists of that sumptuous city of luxurious life and wondrous pageants, and was so emphasized by the marvellous mingling of the semi-mist and the brilliancy of its atmosphere that no man who merited the name of artist could be insensible to its inspiration.

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