1063 examples of solemnities in sentences

She pleaded her youth unsuitable to marriage, the recent death of Tybalt which had left her spirits too weak to meet a husband with any face of joy, and how indecorous it would shew for the family of the Capulets to be celebrating a nuptial-feast, when his funeral solemnities were hardly over: she pleaded every reason against the match, but the true one, namely, that she was married already.

The solemnities of legislation, the administration of justice, the security of property, are all bestowed upon them by the royal grant.

Hymenæi, or the Solemnities of a Masque, and Barriers at a Marriage, printed 1640.

Wax, which is much in request for church solemnities, fetches half a dollar per catty; and resin averages half a real per chinanta.

The circumstances in which we are placed by the death of the President render it indispensable for us, in the recess of Congress and in the absence of the Vice-President, to make arrangements for the funeral solemnities.

He further ordained that the same pontiff should instruct the people not only in the ceremonies connected with the heavenly deities, but also in the due performance of funeral solemnities, and how to appease the shades of the dead; and what prodigies sent by lightning or any other phenomenon were to be attended to and expiated.

On the 20th of the month his remains, with due solemnities, and a numerous attendance of his friends, were buried in Westminster abbey, near the foot of Shakespeare's monument, and close to the grave of the late Mr. Garrick.

The Latin holidays detained the consuls and praetors at Rome till the fifth of the calends of May; on which day, having completed the solemnities on the mount, they proceeded to their respective provinces.

His sailors becoming discontented with their long voyage, hesitated to proceed any further, and he, to satisfy their scruples, landed with the chief officers and several seamen, on an island in this bay, hoping by the touching solemnities of religion to soften a decision so discouraging to his adventurous hopes.

They were also the only fetes I saw here which were not mixed up with religious solemnities.

A short time previous to my visit, however, the government had restored the two keys to the natives with great solemnities, and they are now confided to one of the native Radschas, or princes.

Pretentious solemnities of any kind were hard for him to tolerate and an opera season is, of course, stuffed with these, even a democratized blue-penciled out-of-doors affair like this.

To-morrow they would descend upon her with their fussy attentions, their medical solemnities, their farcical search for somethingfor anything except the truth they wouldn't let her tellto account for her nervous breakdown.

They were guests at family festivals, and social solemnities, from which hired servants were excluded.

They were intimately incorporated with the family of the masters, were guests at family festivals, and social solemnities, from which hired servants were excluded.

There is a ring of judicial sternness in the words; they call up to our minds the solemnities of a court of justicethe indictment, the conviction, the condemnation.

After spending some hours in this shady place, and drinking in its beauties and its solemnities, 'till the mind became softened and subdued by surrounding influences, we left it, bearing in the memory all the rich variety of landscape, we had been gazing on.

Again he chanted loudly, mocking the solemnities of eternity: Old Jonas Whipple Was an old cripple!

" Nearly all the domestics in Friend Hopper's neighborhood attended the funeral solemnities.

The Committee of the Prison Association desired to have public funeral solemnities, and the family complied with their wishes.

When all these solemnities had been accomplished to the great satisfaction of the populace, bonfires were lighted up for three days; the city was illuminated; and only a week afterwards, on the 20th of May, 1495, Charles VIII.

As I am a great Lover of Mankind, my Heart naturally overflows with Pleasure at the sight of a prosperous and happy Multitude, insomuch that at many publick Solemnities I cannot forbear expressing my Joy with Tears that have stolen down my Cheeks.

The solemnities of Christmas, and the festal celebration of the New Year, beneath a cloudless sky, and with the thermometer at 90, concluded our first visit to Swan River.

Few, therefore, can be slow to understand, that if Christ and his disciples broke forth in holy song, immediately after the solemnities of the Last Supper, and just before the Shepherd was smitten, and the sheep were scattered; and if Paul and Silas sung praises unto God in their prison-house, congregational worship may always be the better for such helps.

A sad occasion it generally was to the elder of the rectory children, who were thus doomed to abandon the loud pleasantries of their own home for the sober Sunday solemnities of the Hall.

1063 examples of  solemnities  in sentences