Sentence examples for armed procession from inspiring English sources

Although her Argive ritual was markedly agricultural, she also had a celebration there called the Shield, and there was an armed procession in her honour at Samos.

The two friends, with a small band of accomplices, planned to kill both Hippias and his brother Hipparchus during the armed procession at the Panathenaic festival (514).

As the girls shuffled, steadily twisting colored scarves around their gold‐bedecked arms, a procession of about 100 pigs was forming, with some confusion, at the vil lage entrance.

Armed thieves stormed the museum during asamba procession before supposedly making their escape through the crowds.

The man glassed the road, watching the long procession slump south across the valley, armed and ragged like a band of crusaders for some dark creed.

Armed gunmen from the Badr Brigade, Sciri's armed wing, were out in force yesterday, patrolling the funeral procession for Ayatollah Hakim.

Armed men loyal to the government opened fire as funeral processions for 10 protesters who were killed Monday left the Khaled Bin al-Waleed mosque.

When the Lords staged an anger-fueled funeral procession for him in the streets of the Barrio, they were fully armed.

The procession was claustrophobic — too many men for the narrow streets, too much bumping — and the crowd was sullen; a number of the marchers were armed.

The people in the line linked arms, and the procession was long enough to permit the marchers to sing five different civil-rights songs simultaneously without confusion; the vanguard could not hear what the rear guard was singing.

Or this repulsive catalog of teeming life Mitchell later observes inside a tree: "a flesh-colored worm as long as his arm; a fiery procession of red mites snaking between piles of school-bus-­yellow spores and thick, translucent bubbles of slime; a downy pink fungus like a speck of cotton candy".