Use procession in a sentence
Sentences ending with procession
- I have told you before now how I went with our maid-servant into the Canopic way to the house of my aunt Archidike to look on at the great procession. [10]
- I will see you at eight o'clock in the morning, and we will then arrange the order of the procession. [5]
- My sheep's heart wilt be carried to-morrow in the procession! [10]
- He pushed his way as far as the obelisks near the great gate of the temple with its winged sun-disc and fluttering pennons, but there the temple-servants prevented him from going farther; they were keeping the avenue of sphinxes clear for a procession. [10]
- And so the two begin to hoot and yell, and throw mud and bricks at the Good Templars; and, of course, they break up the procession. [5]
- As she turned to go the little one ran after her crying; she took him in her arms and carried him back to his mother, and then went on to her own room to dress herself and her sister for the procession. [10]
- The militiamen, both those who had been in the village and those who had been at work on the battery, threw down their spades and ran to meet the church procession. [2]
- Our friends, after they had laid their wreaths on the magnificent altars of their royal ancestors without being recognized, late in the afternoon joined the throng who followed the procession. [10]
- For a moment there was no motion on the part of either procession. [11]
- In obedience to the time-honored tradition in Alexandria, after intoxicating himself with new wine in honor of the god, he had rushed out into the street to join the procession. [10]
Short sentences using procession
- And such a procession! [5]
- The procession was endless. [5]
- Spiders walking in a procession? [5]
- Since then, what a procession! [5]
- The Recognition procession. [5]
- The procession ceased. [5]
- And the procession! [10]
Sentences containing procession two or more times
- Immediately after the war of 1812, tourists began to come to America, from England; scattering ones at first, then a sort of procession of them--a procession which kept up its plodding, patient march through the land during many, many years. [5]
- Trumpet calls and singing were heard approaching from the town: the procession, the Bridal procession was coming! [10]
- Then he turned quickly towards Charley, who, looking at the procession, then at the tailor, then back again at the procession, smiled. [11]
- This melancholy procession moved silently onwards, like a procession of phantoms, and the ear was only made aware of it when now and then a low groan broke from one of the victims. [10]
- All the morning an endless double procession of mule-mounted tourists filed past us along the narrow path--the one procession going, the other coming. [5]
More example sentences with the word procession in them
- They took the young and the aged, the decrepit and the sick upon their backs and left for tide-water in disorderly procession, the tadpoles following and the bull-frogs bringing up the rear. [5]
- Irene went with you to the procession, that I know. [10]
- Plotinus was a worthy man, and he had been highly indignant at these instructions; it was not in his power to contravene them; but at any rate he had led the procession in person, and had not forbidden John's accompanying him. [10]
- They set to work with their hatchets, and were soon creeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shreds and films of cloud moving in a lazy procession far below. [5]
- Why, we could work with a torchlight procession if we wanted to, I believe. [5]
- When the procession, with its thousand lamps and torches, paused before the hovel, which was almost invisible in the dusk, and one citizen said to another: "Here comes the sacred heart! [10]
- The procession moved with a good deal of promptness. [5]
- At mid-day I will go with you and help fill the jars for the altar, and later in the day I can accompany you in the procession which was postponed from yesterday. [10]
- The two men who in the morning had visited the Pastophorium had also followed in the procession with the royal family. [10]
- The streets through which the procession moved were broad and straight, the houses on either side, built of brick, tall and handsome. [10]
- But the show which most delighted the bystanders was the procession of masks, wherein, indeed, there were many things pleasant and fair to behold. [10]
- Following the procession, which he describes, came the grand ceremonies of welcome at Haverley's Theatre. [5]
- The procession ends, where it started, in the patron's church; and there his image is set up under a gorgeous canopy of crimson and gold, to hear high mass, and some of the choicest solos, choruses, and bravuras from the operas. [4]
- To be sure when you came home from the procession yesterday you only asked me how my foot was and whether my clothes were whole and then not another mortal word did you utter. [10]
- Ma says there were 10 hearses, with the fire companies (their engines in mourning--firemen in uniform,) the various benevolent societies in uniform and mourning, and a multitude of citizens and strangers, forming, altogether, a procession of 30,000 persons! [5]
- By-and-by the procession went filing down the steep descent of the main avenue, the flickering rank of lights dimly revealing the lofty walls of rock almost to their point of junction sixty feet overhead. [5]
- The procession is well spread out and long; all its members carry lighted tapers, a good many of which are not lighted, having gone out in the wind. [4]
- The first thing we struck that day was a procession of pilgrims. [5]
- In due time we spread our blankets in the warm sand between two large boulders and soon feel asleep, careless of the procession of ants that passed in through rents in our clothing and explored our persons. [5]
- Taught by experience, we ought not to put on our things for this Brahminical one till we see the procession move. [5]
- At noon he was still tramping--among the rabble which followed after the royal procession, now; for he argued that this regal display would attract his little lunatic powerfully. [5]
- Yes, as I was saying, there's only St. Albans, Buccleugh and Grafton ahead of us on the list--all the rest of the British nobility are in procession behind us. [5]
- When the corpse was removed from the house to the tomb, a distance of one chain, the procession was met by a certain man who was ardently attached to the deceased. [5]
- When the procession was past and gone my grand-uncle bid Herdegen go to him, and that which the old man then said and did to move him to give up his love was shrewdly planned and not without effect on his mind. [10]
- Cleopatra noticed what was passing in her brother's mind, and in order to interrupt his further speech and to divert his mind to fresh thoughts, she said cheerfully: "Let us then give up the procession, and think of some other mode of celebrating your birthday. [10]
- The long procession was opened by Nitetis and Atossa, and the two princesses were immediately followed by Phaedime and another beauty. [10]
- A church procession was coming up the hill from Borodino. [2]
- And then we walked slowly to the house and into the dining room, Mr. Carvel leading the procession, and I an unwilling rear, knowing that my fate would be decided between them. [9]
- Sometimes she would walk on Fifth Avenue, watching, with mingled sensations, the procession there. [9]
- Mr. Scherer was very proud of it all, and ours was a sort of triumphal procession, accompanied by superintendents, managers and other factotums. [9]
- This is a very different Memphis from the one which the vanished and unremembered procession of foreign tourists used to put into their books long time ago. [5]
- The torch-bearers who usually headed the procession this time were obliged to close its ranks, for the storm raging from the northeast would have blown the smoke into the people's faces. [10]
- Gregory the Great urged the people to do penance, and a general procession was formed. [5]
- They still kept up this shaving procession as late as four or five years ago. [5]
- It seemed almost unendurable that the king had constrained himself to stand on the balcony of the palace with his head bared, holding his helmet in his hand, while the procession passed. [10]
- You begin to understand how how this procession is going to look when it is on the wall. [5]
- Each in his turn those little supernaturals of our by-gone ages and aeons joined the monster procession of his predecessors and marched horizonward, disappeared, and was forgotten. [5]
- If, in the triumphal procession there, she creates the sensation I anticipate from a spectacle so worthy of admiration, she shall learn how I reward those who oblige me. [10]
- In the pause, too, I heard a long, soft shuffling of feet in the corridor--the evening procession from the chapel--and a slow chant: "I am set down in a wilderness, O Lord, I am alone. [11]
- He drew up to the wall, stood upon the stone seat, and took off his hat while the procession passed. [11]
- He had begun to read it at the top of his voice, screaming down the general din, when everything was forgotten in the excitement caused by the entrance of a procession which was the successful result of many raids on the temple-treasuries and lumber-rooms. [10]
- Indeed, from Lucerne to Interlaken we had the spectacle, among other scenery, of an unbroken procession of fruit-peddlers and tourists carriages. [5]
- When they came to his home he joined them, and marched at the head of the procession as had done many a forefather of his, with ribbons on his hat and others at his button-hole. [11]
- My impulse was to charge the procession, seize Nick and the drum together, and drag them back to my room; but the futility and danger of such a course were apparent, and the caution for which I am noted prevented my undertaking it. [9]
- The American wants to be at the head of the procession (as he fancies he is), where he can hear the band play, and be the first to see the fireworks of the new era. [4]
- The procession disappeared through the great portal into the vestibule, and the door closed. [4]
- It seemed as though she were gazing a second time at the wedding procession which was approaching St. Sebald's, and the couple who led it. [10]
- The remembrance of this paradise reminds me that it was at Hobart that we struck the head of the procession of Junior Englands. [5]
- The company chartered this establishment, and swarmed upon it till it looked like a Neapolitan 'calesso', and the procession might have been mistaken for a harvest-home--the harvest of beauty and fashion. [4]
- At certain seasons there was an almost continuous procession of herds of cattle and sheep passing to the Eastern markets, and of trains of big wagons wending their way to the inviting lands watered by the Tennessee. [4]
- Here a procession, there a theatre; but here! [10]
- He had witnessed them often enough with his friend Diodoros, who never missed the procession to Eleusis, because, as he declared, the mysteries of Demeter alone could assure a man of the immortality of the soul. [10]
- She then joined them and went among the last members of the little procession which went down to the orchestra and from thence up the steps for the chorus, on to the stage. [10]
- People fell upon their knees in the street as the procession passed, and the Cure's face was bent here and there, his hand raised in blessing. [11]
- The multitude cover their heads, and the rest of the procession moves by; first the Hungarian Guard in their indescribably brilliant and picturesque and beautiful uniform, inherited from the ages of barbaric splendor, and after them other mounted forces, a long and showy array. [5]
- The smoke of the torches mingled with the dust stirred by a thousand feet, and the procession moved along, as it were, in a cloud, which also shrouded the multitude that followed. [10]
- Nearer and nearer the thing came, till its long sides began to glow with spots of light which mirrored themselves in the river and attended the monster like a torchlight procession. [5]
- The mule-road to the summit of the Riffelberg passed right in front of the chalet, a circumstance which we almost immediately noticed, because a procession of tourists was filing along it pretty much all the time. [5]
- We nodded in the saddle, at times, and woke up with a start to find that the procession had disappeared in the gloom. [5]
- Three hours later the rest of the population filed over the "divide" in a long procession, and drifted off out of sight around the borders of the Lake! [5]
- Walking ahead of the procession, which gets slowly down the rugged path, I lose sight of my companions, and have the solitude, the sun on the rocks, the glistening sea, all to myself. [4]
- Look, here comes the procession, Nefert. [10]
- The end of the procession was now approaching, and physical weakness suddenly asserted itself most painfully. [10]
- It joined us, the procession was complete, the first war-march of Joan of Arc was begun, the curtain was up. [5]
- From the church the procession took its way to the cemetery. [6]
- To the ear the procession seemed endless, and the eye soon confirmed the impression. [10]
- So we joined the procession of the Tennis maidens and, as the fairest, they placed us directly behind the daughters of Hiram. [10]
- Hood's return, and the procession of the Lower House through the streets, and the arrival of the Good Intent, did high words arise among the quality. [9]
- Presently we saw the procession of the guilds with their devices and banners; never had they come forth in such goodly bravery. [10]
- The head of the procession now passed beyond the Corner of the Muses and came within view of the platform. [10]
- He could see the procession form, with priests and mourners, and move solemnly away, bearing the secret with them. [5]
- The head of the procession began to pass, now, and it was a wonderful sight. [5]
- These fourteen in the procession are not all satisfied. [5]
- They were on the outskirts of civilisation; as Jim used to say, "One step ahead of the procession. [11]
- His friend followed the nod of Dicky's head, and saw, passing slowly through a street below, a funeral procession. [11]
- You could follow the line of the procession back, and slanting upward into the sky, far away in a glittering snaky rope, till it was only a faint streak in the distance. [5]
- By the time the king had reached the palace, the multitude who had come to take part in the festival had formed themselves into a procession of interminable length, which wandered on through the straight streets of Babylon towards the royal palace. [10]
- At half-past nine the great doors opened, and the procession began, in slow and stately moving fashion, to enter. [4]
- And last of the goodly procession came Miss Monflathers, bearing herself a parasol of lilac silk, and supported by two smiling teachers, each mortally envious of the other, and devoted unto Miss Monflathers. [12]
- The shrubs in the garden where she had flung herself into his arms, her blissful walk in the moonlight, and all the crowd assembled for the festival, and finally how, possessed by the god, they had together joined the procession, and danced through the streets. [10]
- The advance-guard of the expected procession now appeared in the great gateway, a troop of halberdiers. [5]
- For a while the enemy came thick and fast; but no matter, the head man of each procession always got a buffet that dislodged him as soon as he came in reach. [5]
- The procession passed the empty lodges, leaving the ground strewn with their weapons, and not one of their number stayed behind. [11]
- The procession passed the doorway: men bearing banners with sacred texts, acolytes swinging censers, a figure of the Saviour carved in wood borne aloft, the Cure under a silk canopy, and a long line of habitants following with sacred song. [11]
- The spectacle of the day was the procession bearing the silver image of the saint through the streets. [4]
- The morning of the day before the princesses' marriage he informed her, among other things, that the bridal procession would march the following morning. [10]
- The crimson sash, the broad diagonal belt of the mounted marshal of a great procession, so cheap in themselves, yet so entirely satisfactory to the wearer, tickle my heart's root. [6]
- She had seen the blossoms stripped from the scanty remnant of her faith in truth and goodness, which had begun to bloom afresh in her heart through the characters of this pair whose marriage procession she had watched. [10]
- Let us imagine that the kings are a procession, and that they have come out of the Ark and down Ararat for exercise and are now starting back again up the zigzag road. [5]
- The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession. [6]
- Nobody else knew that a procession of the dead was passing though this noisy swarm of the living, but there it was, and to me there was nothing uncanny about it; Rio, they were welcome faces to me. [5]
- Next, they will take you to the scaffold, with great eclat, at the head of an imposing procession composed of clergymen, officials, citizens generally, and young ladies walking pensively two and two, and bearing bouquets and immortelles. [5]
- They gave the suffering stranger twenty dollars apiece--and that remark--each in his turn--it took twenty-two minutes for the procession to move past. [5]
- The whole case struck him at once; he whispered a few significant words to one of the officers who marched with the troops on each side of the procession; then he gave the signal, and the procession moved on as if nothing had happened. [10]
- The great procession stopped near a little house by the Aqueduct of the Failing Fountain, and spread round it, and the leader stepped forward to the door of the little house and entered. [11]
- The whole procession stood still for a moment. [11]
- When the procession stood at ease, roped together, and ready to move, I never saw a finer sight. [5]
- The chief procession started with the lighting of the bonfires: Singing softly, choristers and acolytes in robes preceded the devout Cure, and pious believers and youths on horseback, with ribbons flying, carried banners and shrines. [11]
- As the procession started back with the Undertaker's Apprentice now following after Mattingley, not going before, Mattingley turned to him, and with a smile of malice said: "Ch'est tres ship-shape, Maitre-eh! [11]
- She was soon standing hand in hand with the twins upon the balcony before which the procession had halted. [10]
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