If I practised 'mummeries and superstition,' why did you, come to join in them, for nearly seven years?
Heyward was far from regretting that his mummeries were to be performed on one who was much too ill to take an interest in their failure or success.
On the other hand, they were evidently disposed to remain bound to the place by an additional interest in the mysterious mummeries that they of course expected from such a visit.
I stand forth To save you from the good Republic's rage When she shall find her fleet was summoned here To aid the mummeries of a knave like this!
I tell you, Mary Stuart, that the day will come when your masques and your music and your mummeries shall be recorded against you in such characters of fire as roused Belshazzar and his nobles from their last revelry on earth.
Her benedictions were equally effective and in request; so were her spells, her charms, her incantations and mummeries of every kind.
Perhaps men believed in an Alcheringa time on the Clyde; perhaps they multiplied salmon and deer by magical mummeries at the engraved rocks; perhaps these were sacred places, tabooed to women.
On the mummeries expected to make animals and plants plentiful we need not dwell.
Her mass and all her ritualistic mummeries are adopted from paganism at its worst stage and in its most degenerate form, and she awaits the fate that befell Egypt and all her predecessors, "Sodom, Gomorrah, and the cities of the plain.
There were some things (she considered) quite as fine as the trumpery masques and mummeries of the court that the London people seemed to talk about.
From the numeration of the dresses appropriated in 1348 to one of these plays, which consisted of various kinds of disguisements, they seem to have merited rather the denomination of mummeries than of theatrical divertisements.
I placed you, therefore, without preparation, in the temple; I left you suddenly to discover and to be sickened by all those mummeries which dazzle the herd.
This murdered priest of Isis before his death embraced the Christian faith--he revealed to me the dark sins, the sorceries of yon Egyptian--the mummeries and delusions of the fane of Isis.
I could wish that the Cacique would follow the scouts with his mummeries and incantations.
We have noted how ritual acts, once performed with serious purpose, tend to become games for youngsters, and have seen many an example of this process in the sports and mummeries kept up by the elder folk for the benefit of the children.
The pagan origin of its mummeries and licence is evident, but it is a spring rather than a winter festival, and hardly calls for treatment here.
Procession after procession now began to reappear, for all had made the circuit of the city, and each had repeated its mummeries so often that the actors grew weary of their sports.
I must, however, repeat the fact, that they were persecuted for no other reason than because they believed the Bible contained all the truths necessary to salvation, and because they did not believe in all the mummeries of Popery.
Indeed, if you were out of the question, I should not suffer Mr. Vigors to re-introduce all thesemummeries of clairvoyance and mesmerism into the precincts of the Hill.
Having surmounted my first impulse of awe, I watched these proceedings, curious yet disdainful, as one who watches the mummeries of an enchanter on the stage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mummeries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
