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' Some of the spectators fell on their knees, others seized the unfortunate goldsmith, and the brilliant cortege passed on" (Waite).

A STREET CORTEGE Both smiled over the crossblind at the file of capering newsboys in Mr Bloom's wake, the last zigzagging white on the breeze a mocking kite, a tail of white bowknots.

Despite continuing argument about the authenticity of the remains, the government had made "a final decision" to have a state funeral (complete with a military guard saluting the cortege along its route) in St.

GRIDIRON isn't torture any more but some sympathy must be felt for the London clergyman whose route from church to crematorium takes each funeral cortege through a road junction conspiciously marked DO NOT ENTER BOX UNTIL YOUR EXIT IS CLEAR.

-Same as the old march, but modified in character and movement according to its title-funeral march, military march, cortege, festival march, etc.

Meanwhile, Sir Huddlestone has hoisted himself unwieldily on the Nob: "Let's try Sowster's Spinney, Tom," says the Baronet, "Farmer Mangle tells me there are two foxes in it." Tom blows his horn and trots off, followed by the pack, by the whips, by the young gents from Winchester, by the farmers of the neighbourhood, by the labourers of the parish on foot, with whom the day is a great holiday, Sir Huddlestone bringing up the rear with Colonel Crawley, and the whole cortege disappears down the avenue.

A carriage belonging to the cortege turned round close to a lamp.

We cast our eyes up, admiring the massive beauty of the old walls, and we saw a cortege winding slowly down the hill.

Each of the other carriages, eight in all, held three or four of the family; behind them came the doctor's brougham; then, at a decent interval, cabs containing family clerks and servants; and at the very end, one containing nobody at all, but bringing the total cortege up to the number of thirteen.

The tramping on the stairs was continual, and finally Mr. Baines himself went downstairs, bumping against corners, and led a cortege of twenty vehicles.

They are as familiar as the cortege of the undertaker, and wear the same air of slow, funereal barbarism.

At any rate, Ptolemy stole the funeral cortege, and took it to Memphis.

Although the regent arrested and tortured one politician of Phocion's cortege, he expected both groups to be heard out.

As the cortege moved through the streets, a woman darted out from the crowd and spit on Frankie's casket.

When the cortege reached the cemetery, Aquino was given full military honors, where a two-star general acting as military host and eight one-star generals as pallbearers carried the former president's flag-draped coffin.

"Abraham Lincoln's funeral cortege solemnly proceeded down Pennsylvania Avenue in 1865; only weeks later the end of the American Civil War had been celebrated when the Army of the Potomac paraded more joyously down the street."


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