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"Ceremonial occasion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sponge, and it bounded into the street. Wild surmises flashed into Miss Mapp's active brain, the most likely of which was that Major Benjy was going to propose to Mrs. Poppit, for if he had been going up to London for some ceremonial occasion, he would be walking down the street instead of up it. And then she saw his agitated finger press the electric bell of her own door. So he was not on his way to propose to ...
— Miss Mapp • Edward Frederic Benson
... and gaudiest objects to be seen in England at this day, and these were regal ones, in a bright scarlet livery bedizened with gold-lace, and white silk stockings) were in attendance. I know not what festive or ceremonial occasion may have drawn out this pageant; after all, it might have been merely a city-spectacle, appertaining to the Lord Mayor; but the sight had its value in bringing vividly before me the grand old times when the sovereign and nobles were accustomed to ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, Issue 67, May, 1863 • Various
... Journ. Anthr. Inst. XX, 58 n.; this may, however, have been regarded as a ceremonial occasion, though there is no other evidence of such being ...
— Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia • Northcote W. Thomas |
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