In silent processional the Bishops advanced, weighted down by their rigid copes, which fell in a flare from their shoulders and were like golden bells split in the back.
And drifting back through the centuries he saw in dream the slow processional of monks and the kneeling congregations responding to the call of the angelus and drinking in the balm of holy sound as if it were consecrated wine.
But on state occasions, led horses, richly caparisoned, always form part of the show, and there are many animals in princely stables kept solely for processional purposes.
The words of the processional song: Into a star you have cast yourself, Into my star you have cast yourself, etc.
Their character can to some extent be judged by a certain number of kindred historical and processional works by the same hand which have been preserved.
A common modern fallacy is that there is a distinction between the crosier and the pastoral staff, the latter name being assigned to the crook of a bishop, and the former to the processional cross borne before an Archbishop.
Five or six slightly older serene young women enter in processional form; each holding before her, with precise bending of arms, coverlets and linen, carefully folded, as if for the bride couch.
In processional form they pass out, the figure of the bride again merging, not distinguishable from the maidens.
For you to whom each day is dear Of all the high processional throng, I caught the changes of the year In soft and fragile nets of song.
The eastern portion consists of choir with aisles, forming a processional path, with four apsidal chapels opening from them, and a Lady Chapel.
The Norman choir had two bays with a third for a processional path.
We pass to the north aisle of the choir and proceed to the ambulatory, processional path, or retro-choir.
The church consisted of a nave with north and south aisles, a central tower with north and south transepts, a presbytery with north and south aisles, and a processional path.
The Retro-Choir or processionalpath has beautiful clustered shafts and fine vault, and forms a graceful entrance to the Lady Chapel, a most perfect piece of Early English building, and the oldest part of the church.
It evoked visions of white women languorously moving in processional attitudes beneath the chaste rays of an implacable moon.
But he said nothing, though she imagined he looked depressed; nor did he open his mouth as the carriage traversed avenues of processional poplars before arriving at her door.
From the long hillside above which College Hall once towered, the faculty and the alumnae watch their younger sisters march in slowprocessional triumph around and about the wide green campus.
They walked home with unruffled dignity, a processional frieze of madonnas--their faces veiled, as befits holiness.
The figures have not been restored in their original order, which is regrettable, as some of the processional effect is thereby lost.
The brickwork of the south wall of the transept still shows the position of the two doors, one for ordinary use, and one processional gateway, leading into the cloisters.
A processional ambulatory circled the sanctuary and the tomb of St. Hugues, in front of which stood the great altar.
He saw the processional of world brotherhood tramp steadily through the paling sunset; saffron-vestured Mandarin marching by flax-faced Norseman and languid South Sea Islander--the diverse peoples toward whom he had always yearned.
Across the ragged vacant lots to the west a vast sunset processional marched down the sky.
They enter on the right (as if from the city), and the Processional Chant takes them gradually round the Orchestra towards the Thymele, or Altar of Dionysus, in the centre.
Murky and grim enough to-night is that grand processional walk in St. Bartholomew's church, where the great gray pillars and splendid Norman arches of the twelfth century are mouldering in neglect and decay.
The drop-curtain, illustrating the processional progress of Queen Elizabeth when "going to the Globe Theatre," is gay but incorrect.
Before the middle of the century the use of the processional highway had established itself in Greece.
If their abrupt hill-side forbade the straight and broadprocessional avenues of some other Greek cities, they crowned their summits instead with a crescent of temples and palaces which had not its like on the shores of the Aegean.
The public buildings of these towns are in general somewhat small and arranged with little attempt at processional or architectural splendour; they seldom dominate or even cross the scheme of streets.
The processional subjects represented by the Persian artists are of three kinds.
Processional scenes of a more attractive character are, however, tolerably frequent.
Then all the great drums suddenly boom together; all the bands strike up; the mad medley kaleidoscopes into some sort of order; and the immense processional dance begins.
The children start at the sound, so vividly associated in their minds with the sights of Carnival days, with the fantastic mirth of the great processional dance: they run to the sunny street, calling to each other.
For processional cross at the grave (without cross, .
The processional cross was carried on a staff, as used in the United States in processions; at funerals the crucifix was covered with black, this funeral trapping (manga) covering or veiling the cross as a sign of grief.
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