The masquers put their hands up to shade their eyes as she passed, and the chandeliers and torches were paled by its brilliance.
Very early in the evening, while the other masquers reckoned the amusement was only beginning, Maria, with characteristic moderation, chose an opportunity for withdrawing unperceived from the ballroom.
Now leave we the priest to marry them, and the masquers to sport round the Maypole till the last sunbeam be withdrawn from its summit and the shadows of the forest mingle gloomily in the dance.
The ring of gay masquers was disordered and broken; the stag lowered his antlers in dismay; the wolf grew weaker than a lamb; the bells of the morrice-dancers tinkled with tremulous affright.
The young queen danced with the masquers herself, and judged them "as good dancers as ever she saw!
The great ladies of the court, too, were "very free and easy and civil in dancing with all the masquers as they were taken out by them.
At my depart, these were his very words: 'Go tell false Edward, the supposed king, That Lewis of France is sending overmasquers To revel it with him and his new bride.
Then, England's messenger, return in post And tell false Edward, thy supposed king, That Lewis of France is sending over masquers To revel it with him and his new bride.
Masquers swept the streets gaily; if harlequin husband flirted with domino wife--why, so much the merrier!
A few timid and irresolute masquers now began to appear in the throng, stealing a momentary pleasure under the favor of that privileged disguise, from out of the seclusion and monotony of their cloisters.
I am not a man to gad about among the water-sellers, with a secret at the top of my voice; but thou didst leer aside when I winked at thee dancing among the masquers on the quay.
Then the uprightness of the late decree is in the mouths of the masquers to-night?
I have sent a dozen casks of lachryma christi up the canals since the masquerscame abroad, and beyond that I have not occasion.
I met an ancient fellow in the Piazzetta about the time the masquers came in, and we had some words on this matter.
Finally, at a late hour, the flambeaux were lighted, and the masquers rode home, well pleased with the reception they had met and the courtesy of the best behaved boy in the world.
The costumes of themasquers were in brilliant colors and heavily jeweled.
The ring of gay masquers was disordered and broken; the stag lowered his antlers in dismay; the wolf grew weaker than a lamb; the bells of the morris-dancers tinkled with tremulous affright.
Now leave we the priest to marry them, and the masquers to sport round the Maypole, till the last sunbeam be withdrawn from its summit, and the shadows of the forest mingle gloomily in the dance.
Tom acted this scene of mirth in the Hall, which proved to be a thing of that convenience, as if it had been an act of some set policy to keep the crowd out of the parlour, that the Masquers might have room enough to dance in.
Mrs. Fitton led, and after they had done all their own ceremonies, then eight lady masquers chose eight ladies more to dance the measures.
And though the masquers went to Whitehall by land, their progress was not less pompous than the procession which had passed up the Thames in the February of the preceding year.
The Russian or Cossack Masquers were led by Baroness Brunnow in a dress of the time of Catherine II.
A comical petition had to be presented, that the masquers might remain covered before the Queen, lest the doffing of hats should cause the displacement of wigs.
The masquers fled in dismay, and scampered along the aisles scarcely knowing whither they were going.
It was sung by masquers attired in classical costume, to represent Bacchus and his crew.
But at this critical moment Lodovico and his masquers appear; brother and sister both die unrepentant, defiant to the end.
Miss Fitton led; and after they had finished their own ceremonies, the eight lady masquers chose eight other ladies to dance the measures.
He caused the triumphs to be carefully prepared by the best artists, the dresses of the masquers to be accurately studied, and their chariots to be adorned with illustrative paintings.
The frontispiece to an old edition of such lyrics represents Lorenzo surrounded with masquers in quaint dresses, leading the revel beneath the walls of the Palazzo.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "masquers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
