This ridiculous genuflexion and mummery you may see repeated every morning in a Mexican "iglesia," long before the hour of breakfast.
But there is considerable address in the way that Spartacus prepares his pupils for having all this mummeryshewn in its true colours, and overturned.
In all this progressive mummery we see much of the hand of the Jesuits, and it would seem that it was encouraged by the church.
The Duke of Orleans, his son, the Elector of Bavaria, and some other German Princes, did not scruple at this mummery in their own persons.
It is needless to narrate the mummery of reception, and it is enough to say, that it nearly resembles that of the Masonic Chevalier du Soleil, known to every one much conversant in Masonry.
It is not so much among the wealthy upper classes that the mischiefs of this useless and expensive mummery are felt, as amongst the middle and working classes.
Granted that my fancy for Hetty was only a cloud of illusions, still I could not, within a few days of her sudden death, go in cold blood to take part in a grotesque and heathenish mummery over her coffin.
First of all, I will demolish the very keystone on which the whole fabric rests; I will cast down the idol and trample it under my feet; I will testify in the face of all men against the gross and godless mummery of the mass.
The Mummeryof the Racket-keeping Robin-goodfellows.
All mummery was to be forbidden, and all monarchy to be called mummery.
However, on returning in the afternoon, I met Mummery on the glacier.
Mummery tried the same tactics as before, but soon had to confess that he dared not trust the snow any further, for it was thoroughly sodden upon the surface of the ice, and we might bring the whole face off at any moment.
The tahsildar rode several miles up the valley with us, finally insisting that Mummery should ride his pony, and return it after two or three days when convenient.
Mummery groaned aloud as he stepped into icy pools of water.
We imagined that when the pass had proved to be too difficult, Mummery had turned back to the high camp where the food had been left.
Mummery was not wrong when he said it was magnificent climbing.
We always had sleeping-bags, and I may say that during all the years I spent climbing with Mummery only twice have I slept in a hut with him.
Out of that valley up which Mummeryhad gone there was but one way: that was the one by which he had entered it; he had not returned, the provisions were untouched.
I used quite unpublishable language, and even the imperturbable Mummery was moved to express his feelings in much more forcible language than was customary.
If only the weather would clear, Mummery was sure that we could get on to this upper glacier.
At first the landlord was so astounded at seeing a black friar and a grey nun pass through his kitchen from the inside, that he gaped, and muttered, "Why, what mummery is this?
By the White Swan, I am rather surprised his mummery drove her not to frenzy.
Tell me not of it--I could ne'er abide The mummery of all that forced civility.
These priests, with their shaven crowns, and arrayed in the yellow robes of the religion, appeared to go through the mummery with devotion.
Faith, in a mummery and a pair of false dice; I was one of the mummers myself, simple as I stand here.
He easily succeeded in convincing her that the mummery of popery and the mass were at variance with God's most holy word, and honestly reproved her for following too much the vanities of a wicked world.
We have had enough, too, of Spanish etiquette and Italian mummery here.
Let us forget for a moment the mummery of royalty," said he.
Was there ever such a mummery as the carrying of this bill to the other House will be, if, unfortunately, it should be carried thither.
The first step in the conjuration of the bee-hunter was, to produce an impression on the minds of his untutored observers, by resorting to a proper amount of mummery and mystical action.
The young man then related to his wondering companion the history of the mummery and incantations of which she had been a distant spectator.
He had so far recovered from the frightening effects of the marriage service that he was making light of it, and saying: "When will this mummery come to an end, I wonder?
Even to keep an open mind himself to all the muss andmummery of the Church!
And, strange to say, I dreamed that I was again at Jena, and that the fantasticmummery of those days was being renewed.
You cannot imagine how pleasant it is to be so constantly a masker, in themummery known as life.
The mummery of Portcullis and Rouge Dragon, as it has no other value than that which caprice has assigned to it, may well submit to any laws which caprice may impose on it.
Lewis the Fourteenth looked down on his brother King with an air not unlike that with which the Count in Moliere's play regards Monsieur Jourdain, just fresh from the mummery of being made a gentleman.
It was restoring the decorations and the mummery of the mass!
This foolish effort first succeeded and then failed, and was a poor bit of mummery altogether, ending in nothing but waste of money and time, and breath and temper.
Shall we laugh at it as a bit of mummery that is useless in an age of books and newspapers, and foolish and pompous in days of frock-coats and chimney-pot hats?
