A flourish of trumpets and hautboys, and the firing of miniature cannon, greeted the arrival of the guests, who were escorted to the parlour, which was hung with tapestries and glowing with lights like a Lady Chapel.
The parchment was placed in her hand, the furred hood laid on her shoulders; then, after another flourish of rhetoric, she was led to the lectern from which her discourse was to be delivered.
The side was manned to receive him, and with a grand air he stepped on deck, making a profound bow and a wide flourish with his cocked-hat.
Blanche threw open the door with a flourish of triumph, and what Marjory saw caused her heart to beat faster than ever.
The young man opened a door with a flourish and ushered him into the manager's room.
And he sent them off with a flourish of his stick.
The waiter of the plaster-cast face, holding on high a tray which he brought down with a deft flourish to the level of the table, slipped in like a whisper.
Without any ostentatious flourish of lorgnette, but simply and quietly and thoroughly, she studied it.
In European prisons homosexual practices flourish among the women fully as much, it may probably be said, as among the men.
I have judged, I fancy, more by seeing you flourish your walking-stick than anything else.
For the distinctive feature about a particular species of parasite is that it will live andflourish where another species will die, and, vice versa, will die in surroundings where its sister species might live and thrive.
While both these pus-organisms can breed and flourish freely only in wounds or sores, this is but their starting-point where they gather strength to invade the entire organism.
No flourish of trumpets heralded the advance; no gaudy costumes clothed the attending Knights.
With a labored flourish he attached his name and sealed it with his ring.
Vain are the documents of men, And vain the flourish of the pen That keeps the fool's conceit.
The Winter past, reviving flowers Anew shall paint the plain, The woods shall hear the voice of Spring, And flourish green again.
Nor is it surprising that Drosera should be enabled to profit by the absorption of these salts, for yeast and other low fungoid forms flourish in solutions of ammonia, if the other necessary elements are present.
Faith has been found to subsist and flourish under various creeds and all manners of worship, in all stages of civilization.
At last, with a graceful flourish a good hand fell to Buck, a suspiciously good hand, while Dave's thin lips were twisted into a one-sided smile.
O, that such muddy flags, For every drunken flourish should achieve The name of manhood, whilst true perfect valour, Hating to shew itself, goes by despised!
The plan will flourish in spite of them, and then they'll be glad to come in.
Showily, pompously, boastfully, with a flourish of trumpets, with beat of drum.
He pointed to the vessels lying at the wharves; and then gave a vague flourish with his stick, as if he would include the air and water, generally, in this remark.
He perked on his toes, and fetched his hand from behind him to flourishit when his Murat came out.
Mrs. Lawrence hummed and added an operaticflourish of an arm.
I'll sing for them with all my heart only I must be one of them and have no flourish made about me.
It was well she did, for the family got much excited over the prospect of "our Phebe's debut" and would have made a flourish if the girls had not resisted.
Whenever the reigning sovereign passes by, a certain landed proprietor is held bound to climb on to the top, trumpet in hand, and sound a flourish according to the measure of his knowledge in that art.
Behind the Blue mountains we saw grain and Indian corn flourish in a cultivated region, and reached Harrisburg.
Only pine trees appeared to flourish in this part of the country; upon the whole, it was hilly, and the progress was tedious through the deep sand.
The ramparts of both are composed merely of sand, and the high bushes of various species, which flourish to a remarkable degree on the ruins, exhibit the productive force of the climate.
He suspected, however, that Judaism might continue toflourish in a rejuvenated healthy form, though he did not define clearly wherein this revival should consist.
Judaism, will also flourish in those countries as luxuriantly as in former days on the banks of the Jordan and upon the heights of Lebanon.
Jacob Emden had won the day, he could flourish over him the scourge of his scorn; and he pursued him even beyond the grave as the most abandoned being who had ever disgraced Judaism.
It is noteworthy that these green bodies flourish in large numbers throughout the substance of sponges of S.
Probably the more intense light of India enables the corpuscles to flourish in situations in which in Europe they would lose their chlorophyll.
It is particularly interesting to note that three of the species that flourish in the mild winter of Bengal, namely Hydra vulgaris, Plumatella emarginata, and P.
But a new discharge of cannon, a new flourish of trumpet and cymbal, as the Emperor reached the gates of the cathedral, and appeared before the assembled and shouting thousands without, urged on the procession.
