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Example sentences for "cavalcade"

Lexicographically close words:
cautiously; cautiousness; cauzee; cava; caval; cavalcades; cavalerie; cavalier; cavalierly; cavaliers
  1. As the cavalcade approached, there came a boy on a pony at speed towards them.

  2. This little cavalcade rode directly out of the city gates towards the pavilion of the young Douglases of Avondale.

  3. In the city of Nantes the rumour of the taking of Gilles de Retz had spread like wild-fire, and as the cavalcade rode through the streets, the windows rained down curses and the citizens hooted up from the sidewalks.

  4. It was a true word that the little Maid of Galloway spoke, for, according to the pretty custom of the young Earl, the cavalcade had halted ere they plunged into the woods of Kelton.

  5. Our cavalcade had halted while I read, the ladies letting down the glasses and leaning out in their concern lest some trouble had befallen me or my grandfather.

  6. As I came through your town I made inquiries, and was told by a black fellow in the Circle that Mr. Carvel was but just left for Upper Marlboro with a cavalcade of four coaches-and-six and some dozen gentlemen with their servants.

  7. DAY dawned apace; and a glorious cavalcade of flaming clouds heralded the Sun their captain.

  8. At length the cavalcade came to a halt in a spacious and beautiful square, situated, as the visitors judged, in about the centre of the city.

  9. As the ghostly cavalcade advanced, they raised the triumphant hymn of Vexilla regis, until at length the cardinal, ascending a rising ground, imposed silence, and made a brief but animated harangue to his soldiers.

  10. From Huaura he was accompanied by the whole cavalcade to Lima, where he was received with great pomp and magnificence, making his entry under a canopy of cloth of gold.

  11. They and their belongings are transported by two horses, this limited cavalcade being still sufficient to carry all the worldly belongings of David Crockett, hunter, warrior, magistrate and legislator.

  12. He had strapped over his shoulder a goodly sized box of lunch, and the cavalcade started cheerfully down the walk that led toward the forest, a compact mass of foliage lying to the left of them.

  13. So saying, the cavalcade departed from the dark old attic, laden with spoils.

  14. The cavalcade came to a sudden halt, and as Craven with difficulty reined in his own horse the sustained and penetrating cry of the muezzin rose weirdly high and clear on the morning air, "al-ilah-ilah.

  15. It was a large cavalcade that left the oasis, for the new Chief required a bigger escort to support his dignity than the Captain of Spahis had done.

  16. Accordingly, taking my book and English dictionary, I retired to a small summer-house at the foot of the garden, and determined to remain there till the cavalcade had set out.

  17. The cavalcade drew near a large town, and in they dashed, the baronet still shouting, out of breath, "The tiger!

  18. London reached, the cavalcade became a procession, the captive being led through the principal streets for the edification of the populace, before being taken to the Tower.

  19. A gorgeous cavalcade of natives of India completed the procession, than which none of greater brilliance had ever been seen in London streets.

  20. The whole cavalcade set spurs to their steeds, and dashed at full gallop over the hollow-sounding drawbridge into the courtyard of the castle.

  21. When he drew up at the house he discovered a small cavalcade ahead of him.

  22. He rode off rather early, in company with the other officers, whom he found belonged to a Virginia regiment encamped at Alger, and when the gay little cavalcade had waved their hands in parting and were lost to sight Dr.

  23. The elevation was not taken--our half-wild cavalcade making it troublesome to halt before night, when once started.

  24. On the 30th of June our cavalcade moved rapidly down the Arkansas, along the broad road which follows the river.

  25. Our cavalcade made a strange and grotesque appearance; and it was impossible to avoid reflecting upon our position and composition in this remote solitude.

  26. But now I often think of strife, and struggle, and war--civil war: the stir of our cavalcade seems like the tramp of cavalry.

  27. At the park gates his cavalcade quitted him with that delicacy of feeling which always distinguishes Englishmen, however rough their habit.

  28. The cavalcade had halted during this colloquy.

  29. Progress was necessarily slow, the perils of the road increasing as the little cavalcade wound deeper and deeper into the wilderness.

  30. The road was broad and wide, but the cavalcade rode in single file, so as to pass without difficulty the masses of marching men.

  31. They waited half an hour, and then Van Voorden bade them adieu, as the cavalcade moved forward.

  32. On the other side of this coulée he found he could no longer trace the passage of the preceding cavalcade under the thickening snow.

  33. The spectacle was hideous which the long cavalcade exhibited as it wound up the steep streets which led to the market-place.

  34. It had been doubted by many, and by others a pretended doubt had been raised to serve the Landgrave's purpose, whether the great cavalcade from Vienna would be likely to reach the entrance of the forest for a week or more.

  35. As the cavalcade pressed deeper into the wild thicket, a savage face peered out at them from between the bushes.

  36. Your cavalcade the fair spectators view, From their high standings, yet look up to you.

  37. As this courtly cavalcade approached the Rock of the Lovers, on the banks of the river Yeguas, they beheld a splendid train of knights advancing to meet them.

  38. When the royal cavalcade passed by the chivalry of the Duke del Infantado, which was drawn out in battle array, the queen made a reverence to the standard of Seville, and ordered it to pass to the right hand.

  39. The other animals, seeing her act in this manner, rushed after; and the next moment the little cavalcade passed round a point of rocks, where a green sward gladdened the eyes of all.

  40. The shades of evening were closing over the earth, and the alabaster hills were assuming an ashy blue colour, when the little cavalcade emerged from the dusty ravines of gypsum, and once more trod the green prairie.

  41. Lightened of her load, she struck out into a fleet gallop, and soon overtook the horses; and the whole cavalcade now kept on, until they had placed several miles between themselves and the javalies.


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    Other words:
    caravan; cavalcade; column; cortege; funeral; line; motorcade; parade; pomp; procession; promenade; review; stream; string; train