Sentence examples for ancient ceremony from inspiring English sources

In an ancient ceremony they surrendered their ceremonial keys of office to the Queen and she symbolically touched the objects.

For him the ancient ceremony has the same religious purpose and spiritual weight as attending church.

Danny Lopez, the British consul general in New York, explained to me that wassailing is "an ancient ceremony that involves singing and drinking to the health of trees".

The ancient ceremony often leads to scuffles among the thousands crammed inside in which Greek Orthodox Palestinians, Armenians and Syriacs usually take the lead.

Visitors and residents bathe in thick yellow soup pools of foul - smelling sulphurous mud, as if attending some deviant ancient ceremony.

Crew members of a United States Navy warship carried a keg of wine to the Tower of London in an ancient ceremony on Saturday.

Despite this the Grand Palace remained the official and ceremonial place of residence as well as the stage set for elaborate ancient ceremonies of the monarchy.

It mimics the ancient ceremonies of China or Japan.

Particularly after 100 bc, there developed a widespread interest in ancient ceremonies, family genealogies, religious customs, and the like.

The Iroquois continue to maintain their ancient ceremonies and a large repertory of dances and songs, including rites for crises of life and for animals and plants.

A panel of judges conducted a series of ancient ceremonies to select the goddess from several girls ages 2 to 4 who were members of the goldsmith caste.