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During the Picpus program last year from a distance I saw the cortege of an admiral, who was buried just to one side of Lafayette's tomb.
For many years women were not allowed to follow the cortege, and only the wives of Brahmans could walk around the pyre.
In scattered groups on either side of the funeral cortege, women cried out as if for a beloved relative.
A huge crowd and an official delegation from Senegal accompanied the cortege to the Invalides chapel.
In some later engravings, the orchestra accompanying the funeral cortege is made up not of skeletons but of animal musicians.
A policeman stopped traffic on Palmetto for the cortege and second line to pass, and in a better street, people broke out dancing.
One report on TENs follows another, but the projects adopted advance at the speed of a funeral cortege.
The procession takes some three hours to make its way through the streets of the old abbey town, and the bands and the swaying cortege pass before the tomb of St Willibrord, who lies buried in the crypt of the Basilica.
If it is intended that the Legion members precede the casket and bearers out of the location of the service they will line up on both sides of the exit and form a Guard of Honour and will remain until the cortege has left.
We did not have to watch, as they did, the long rows of prisoners of all nationalities crossing Europe, merging into one singleĀ  continental funeral cortege.
We could not, nor had to, observe, like those who could and had to do so, the long processions of prisoners who crossed Europe from every country, in fact forming a single European funeral cortege.
Those in the cortege include members of the Grand Ducal house, representatives of the Government, the Chamber of Deputies, the Courts of Justice and other institutions.
So, the cortege spent hours before it reached Hilla Condji.
Urgel Bourgie's highly trained staff will take care of embalming and make all necessary preparations including administrative, transportation and cortege planning for the deceased's final resting place.
A BIKERS' guard of honour led a funeral cortege for road tragedy victim Stefan Warner.
This would fit with the intended destination of Alexander's funeral cortege.
The cortege will also pass near the one-time home of Paul Kruger, the father of the Afrikaner nation.
While Alexander's funeral cortege was on its way to Macedon, Ptolemy seized it and took it temporarily to Memphis.
His funeral cortege was given permission by the Queen to pass through Hyde Park, an honour previously reserved for royalty.
You'll be deafened by the rhythmic din of the huge cowbells attached to the lower backs of the members of the cortege, which clang in unison with the rhythmic movements as they walk.
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That night the white people left the stockade in a cortege of torch bearers.
The other barges in the cortege were rowed by Greenwich pensioners.
Such of his family as shared his captivity brought up the cortege.
The cortege was of great length, and splendid in its appointments.
Down the broad main thoroughfare, which may once have been the historic Unter den Linden, came a brilliant cortege.
And few people, if any, are initiated into its inner mysteries except those who belong to its own cortege of inventors and attendants.
But it was merely the ushers opening a passage for the cortege.
It was a dejected cortege that wended its toilsome way up the hill.
Our progress was exceedingly effective, for everyone whom we met stopped to stare at the cortege.
In accordance with the Italian custom, the cortege marched quickly.
Every exit had been cut off to bottle up the Imperial cortege.
I had a brother who died on Ninth, but I met the cortege at Eighth.
Ption and Barnave, were waiting to take the direction of the cortege.
They make the fact of marriage no more certain than does the funeral cortege of a jeddak again place the seal of death upon him.
Lucy came with me, and we went early to our old seat, whilst the cortege of boats went up the river to the Viaduct and came down again.
In the centre of this pacific and fragrant cortege the black tulip was seen, carried on a litter, which was covered with white velvet and fringed with gold.
The cortege proceeded to Notre Dame, where a Te Deum was chanted.
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