A cortege followed the royal couple wherever they went. From LearnThat.org.
Noun : a funeral cortege. From Dictionary.com.
The cortege was a long one, mostly made up of the dead man's fellow Gephyriots. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Any travelling European with a medicine chest can get the same kind of cortege round his tent. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark] Reference
Some Filipinos, expecting the cortege would pass through. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
A moment later we met the funeral cortege of a rich merchant. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
Every exit had been cut off to bottle up the Imperial cortege. From Wordnik.com. [Despoilers of the Golden Empire] Reference
The funeral cortege was escorted by Major George Peter's company. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
There was an immense funeral cortege, among the pall-bearers being. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
In accordance with the Italian custom, the cortege marched quickly. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Once the cortege had passed, it was high time to snuff out the tapers. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
The cortege reached the cemetery and filed slowly through the gate; but. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
The pompous cortege of the Cardinal halted at the beginning of the camp. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The storm cleared away, the cortege was re-formed; to enter in state the. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
With a tinkle of mule-bells the cortege faded away into the gray of dawn. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
Ascension Day this strange cortege goes in procession round the neighbourhood. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
The troops and Volunteers with the bands of their respective regiments headed the cortege. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
After several addresses had been read and replied to, the cortege passed slowly on towards. From Wordnik.com. [Vellenaux A Novel] Reference
It was a remarkable funeral cortege which wended its way slowly back over the hills to their home. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island] Reference
In the winter, however, he yields to night, which, with her dark cortege, occupies the northern world. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
In half an hour the cortege was ready, and, after some little hesitation on Don Garcia's part, they started. From Wordnik.com. [Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express] Reference
Charing Cross, where formerly another of these memorials marked the last halt of the royal funereal cortege. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference
Clustered beneath the trees in the ordinarily quiet avenues of Maisons, the crowd watched the cortege; and old. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It was a common thing to see men halt in the street and stand uncovered, while a pitiful funeral cortege passed. From Wordnik.com. [Woman as Decoration] Reference
The bride rose without assistance, and the duke placed her upon another horse, whereupon the cortege started again. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
I dispersed my cortege and ordered a room for ourselves and one for the sisters, and we all took a nap until evening. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
The Queen herself led a cortege of Court beauties on a white horse that was set off by brocaded and gem-sewn trappings. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Versailles] Reference
The next morning the queen watched from those gates as the funeral procession passed; the sovereign bowed to the cortege. From Wordnik.com. [The Day England Cried] Reference
The cortege marched around the whole front of the lined-up troops, keeping step to the slow and dismal sounds of the "Dead March.". From Wordnik.com. [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference
It was arranged that the cortege should return to Springfield over as nearly as possible the same route as that taken by the President in. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Before the cortege marched a man blowing a large conch, which emitted, not "the murmur of the shell," but a much more ear-splitting music. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
Saturday morning, May 28, thousands of people assembled in the square outside to witness the passage of the funeral cortege from Westminster. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Old Man] Reference
He struck the horse lightly, and they passed on while the little funeral cortege went slowly to the burial place for the poor and unknown dead. From Wordnik.com. [Dawn] Reference
Young girls, crowned with sweetbrier and other flowers, made a long cortege through the Corso, under arches, and sang choruses on the new grass. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The ukulele fell out of favour after the death of George Formby in 1961, who was so popular that 100,000 people lined the route of his funeral cortege. From Wordnik.com. [A working life: Ukulele teacher] Reference
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