Sentence examples for curious ceremony from inspiring English sources

The origin of this curious ceremony dates from the indignation of the lower house at the famous attempt of Charles I to arrest John Hampden, John Pym, and three other members of the House of Commons in 1642.

There was a curious ceremony in the Zone's convention centre which, apart from the odd Saddamish mural, could be a convention centre anywhere, intended to mark the handover of military authority from the coalition to the Iraqi military.

On 5 January 1919, almost two months after the end of the war, a curious ceremony took place in a small colonial settlement on the eastern coast of New Guinea.

Other challenges have included a visit to le coiffeur (astonishingly I emerged neither bald nor a poodle) and opening a French bank account, which commanded the curious ceremony of taping my name to the letterbox for a fortnight.

In Prague's maze-like Franciscan Garden, an urban oasis hidden away in the heart of the Czech capital, a curious ceremony is unfolding.

Thus, in the curious ceremonies performed at Papremis connected with the worship of the Egyptian deity, whom Herodotus (II.63) imagined to be identical with Ares, the statue, enshrined in a chapel made of gilded wood, was dragged in a four-wheeled car by a body of priests.

1938 Royal Wedding in Egypt CAIRO — In a curious Moslem ceremony lasting only a few minutes, Farida Zulficar became the wife of King Farouk of Egypt this morning [Jan . 17.

Even casual visitors to his home in Mexico City leave tours awestruck by its beauty and sense of ceremony, intensely curious about the famously private man who dreamed it up and made it real.

Have the magazines on hand during the wedding, so that you can check any facts or look up things you're curious about during the ceremony.

The timing of the Eni-GBRV ceremony was also curious as it fell on the same day MENPET received bids in the Carabobo bid round.

They had just suffered disappointment at this year's Oscar ceremony with "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and were shuttering their own small film division, Paramount Vantage, which Mr. Lesher had started.