Jack watched the rather piebald pageant with absorbed interest.

The light that ne'er shall fade, pageant.

The Star Club has popularized its celestial interests by presenting to the College a pageant in three scenes, a "Dream of the Sun and Planets," in which the Earth Dweller is transported to the regions of the sky and holds long and intimate conversations with the various heavenly bodies.

Yes; it was not for a humble man like me to assist at royal births with the illustrious prince who condescended to grace the pageant of this opening session, or the great captain and statesman in whose presence I now am proud to speak.

There was a stir among the crowd; a few went out, having witnessed the pageant; but there was a flutter of increased interest among those who remained, as a venerable man, in the garb of the Frari, mounted the pulpit on the right.

The art of producing pageants.

In the memoir of Count Pasolini by his son (translated by the Countess of Dalhousie) the following passage occurs: Lord John Russell was then in Venice, and came to view the pageant from our windows in Palazzo Corner.

They do no more than flank the pageant.

Three kings sent wreaths to his funeral, and the city of Venice twice asked for the privilege of giving him a final pageant.

Courtiers were there, the old and young, Of high and haughty lineage sprung; And jewell'd matrons: some had been, Erewhile, spectators of a scene Like this, with mien and manners gay; Who now, their hearts consum'd away, Held all the pageant in disdain, And seem'd to smile and speak with pain.

Better are those homely sounds that link the pageant of night with the immemorial life of the fields.

Another drawback is that Gibbon is hopelessly worldly in his point of view; he loves pageants and crowds rather than individuals, and he is lacking in enthusiasm and in spiritual insight.

On the terrace of the garden overlooking the river a throng of the most notable people of the court and society, drawn hither by the novelty of the pastime and comfortably installed in chairs brought by their servants, with chaufferettes and furs to keep them protected from the intense cold, looked on at the shifting, swiftly moving pageant before them.

Though the drama was of religious origin, we must not overlook these secular pageants as an important factor in the development of dramatic art.

The very phrase evokes and parades a pageant of amours!

As many young nobles, with the accompaniment of music and dancing, performed a gorgeous pageant of Greeks, Indians and Florentines.

Nevertheless, we wished very much to photograph this pageant, so we determined, if possible, to take our camera.

There's not a butcher's wife but dribs her part, And pities the poor pageant from her heart; Who, to provoke revenge, rides round the fire, And, with a civil congé, does retire: But guiltless blood to ground must never fall; There's Antichrist behind, to pay for all.

Her life now resembled a magnificent, glorified, triumphal pageant; a dazzling fairy festival; a tale from the "Arabian Nights" that had become reality, with Josephine for its enchanted heroine, sparkling with stars, and gleaming with golden sunshine.

We had a desirable position for reviewing the pageant, and very pleasant company to interpret the mottoes, symbols, and banners.

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

She has shown her child all the pageant of life, and now prepares him for his "patrimony of a little mould"

The simpler the pageant, the more effective it will be.

Her majesty then proceeded to Leadenhall, where stood a pageant, representing a hill encompassed with red and white roses; and above it was a golden stump, upon which a white falcon, descending from above, perched, and was quickly followed by an angel, who put a crown of gold upon his head.

In the midst of the forest, which was thus introduced, appeared a gilded tower, at the end of which stood a youth, holding in his hands a garland of roses, as the prize of valour in a tournament which succeeded the pageant!"