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The trembling, querulous voice should have been enough to shatter the ceremonious moment, but, somehow, it was not.
Unlike the comparatively ceremonious animated cartoons, early Schulz is giddy with unimportance.
After a few ceremonious waves of his arm the chief, with expert precision, sticks the needle into my bicep, a few inches from my armpit.
Despite the ceremonious statements of intent and unanimous decisions in Prague, the Atlantic Alliance is drifting apart.
From the 13th century onward, tournaments became progressively less dangerous and more ceremonious.
At the end of the aisle Chief Marcett waited, dressed in ceremonious white robes and shelled necklaces.
An upper House of Lords had been created, and the court at Whitehall was every bit as ceremonious as that of the Stuarts.
Most of these occasions have been very ceremonious, with solemn readings and ritualized motions.
For thousands of years there have been big, splendorous, ceremonious books which explain initiation.
Pindaric ode, ceremonious poem by or in the manner of Pindar, a Greek professional lyrist of the 5th century bc.
It seemed a ceremonious, almost festive occasion, and we wished we'd brought a small sandwich, a picnic apple or plum.
This technique is similar to the ceremonious rebirth of a culture group when its designated leader dies.
The brands' new products, on sale in Poland only from next year, will have their ceremonious debut at the Orgatec fair between 26 and 30 October.
This cave housed rice remains which were harvested some 10,000 years ago and filled into vessels as part of a ceremonious ritual.
On the night of their wedding, January lusted after his new wife, May, believing his forceful actions to be justified because of their ceremonious union.
The equestrian idol is led up to a church, brought up to the altar and blessed before it begins the ceremonious procession through the Great Entrance of the town square.
Dr. Westbank offered the operating scissors to Mac to sever the umbilical cord, a ceremonious thing that Mac was completely unaware of, but he did it anyway.
After I had given my consent to marriage the ceremony had become less ceremonious, tables were pushed back to the walls and food was set out as a buffet.
Even though Lance may hoist a ceremonious champagne toast while cruising to victory on the Tour's last day, cyclists never should ride under the influence of alcohol.
Accompanied by a local band and scores of poorly clad children of the nearby slums, the students were given a ceremonious welcome at the Telugu High School in Anjeneyar Nagar.
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The note was not a long one, nor was it encumbered by any ceremonious phraseology.
Ole had been very modest and ceremonious with Lisbeth as he bade her good-by.
The queens, stately and ceremonious, were softened and could not restrain their laughter.
Hat and gloves are invariably worn with this gown if the affair is ceremonious.
He pointed to an unweeded rice-field and with many ceremonious bows pressed the hoe upon Ning as one who confers high honours.
Diomed, who was rather ceremonious, had appointed a nomenclator, or appointer of places to each guest.
They are not fine or ceremonious, but lively, odd, and pleasant.
Breakfasts may be homelike, informal affairs, or quite ceremonious.
They were hungry, and the smell of the roasted kid was very savory, and your tars are not very ceremonious.
Finally, she bowed in a manner sufficiently distant and ceremonious.
His phrases are ceremonious without the dignity of ceremony.
Dinner at the moat-house was a solemn and ceremonious function.
Major Stone bowed with the ceremonious detail that was a part of him.
He was ushered into the ceremonious, barely-furnished, best room.
As we neared home, Joe vaguely acknowledging the occasion as an impressive and ceremonious one, went on ahead to open the front door.
She came solitarily down the gravel walka Miss Martin just appearing at the door, and parting with her seemingly with ceremonious civility.
My motives for suspending, proceeds she, were not merely ceremonious ones.
While at anchor at this place, much ceremonious visiting and long conferences took place between the potentate of the islands and the partners of the company.
The ceremonious black frock-coat and the bared head of Europe's greatest feminist accentuated the dubiousness of his status in the house rented by Madame de S, his Egeria.
In her own circle, it was regarded as by no means improper for kinsfolk to visit one another without invitation, or preliminary and ceremonious warning.
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