Sentence examples for a great procession from inspiring English sources

The sculptures currently split in two – including a decapitated goddess and a great procession that disappears half way through – would be reunited, and would finally make all their sense.

Finally, the king, dressed in a short kilt with an animal's tail in back, ran a ritual course four times and was then carried away in a great procession to visit the chapels of the gods of Upper and Lower Egypt.

The ecclesiastical pieces continued in use, though many were destroyed in the Reformation and others cut up so the least damaged panels could be reused, but few secular pieces survived: a spectacular crimson cloth embroidered with the lions of England, believed made for the horse of Edward III for a great procession, is a rare exception.

Jean and Marguerite de Carrouges then, with the crowd following in a great procession, rode from the abbey to the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, to give thanks for the victory.

Why spend hours rattling around in a hot, slow Jeep when you can sit on a shaded verandah, sip a G&T, and watch this great procession below, this Noah's ark of animals?

In the case of "The Great Procession" it was the piece itself that felt a little hollow, although there's no denying it is eminently well made.

The great procession from Athens to Eleusis for participants in the mysteries possessed a symbolic meaning.

This was before the great procession, which lasted from 2 p.m. until nearly 6 p.m.

But the crowds around the great procession of naked mystics in the predawn hours on Sunday were frightening.

Most migration takes place within countries, not between them, part of the great procession of people from country to town and from agriculture to industry.

In the eyes of Bossuet, to grasp and understand the great procession of empires and religions was "to comprehend in one's mind all that is great in human affairs and have the key to the history of the universe".