Cavalcade

Scientology public affairs director for Scotland, Gordon Reid, said: The purpose of the cavalcade is to provide help to people. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Albert Hoffer was favoured by her protectress, and the three passed in cavalcade before my smoky window. ❋ Unknown (1834)

Metro police vehicles to do scene control, the SAPS, and thrown into the cavalcade are the towtruck drivers. ❋ Unknown (2004)

They're leading a four year boycott with this intense morally superior rhetoric cavalcade, which is just disturbing. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The cavalcade was a weird and picturesque sight, the riders with their many-colored dresses, their matchlocks with red flags, their jewelled swords, their banners with long ribbons of all colors flying in the wind -- all galloping furiously, shouting, yelling, and hissing, amid a deafening din of thousands of horse-bells. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)

The cavalcade was a weird and picturesque sight, the riders with their many-coloured dresses, their matchlocks with red flags, their jewelled swords, their banners with long ribbons of all colours flying in the wind; all galloping furiously, shouting, yelling and hissing, amidst a deafening din of thousands of horse-bells. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)

"But does your foolish old hen suppose that this entire cavalcade, which is bound on an important adventure, is going to stand still while she lays her egg?" enquired the Tin Woodman, earnestly. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Next in the cavalcade is a chanter or reader of the Musseeah, who selects passages from that well-arranged work suited to the time when Hosein's person was the mark for Yuzeed's arrows, and which describe his conduct on the trying occasion; one or two couplets being chanted, the procession advances in slow time, halting every five minutes on the way from the beginning to the end of the march. ❋ Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali (1885)

It could hardly be termed a cavalcade, as it consisted of an atajo of pack-mules, with some carretas drawn by oxen. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

Lopez said the cavalcade is the first of several events whose objective is to attract participants not only from Dodge City and surrounding areas, but also from the rest of Kansas and other states. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At the head of the cavalcade was a breezy-looking Peter Robinson. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Today's word (which changes daily of course, and will only match on the day the entry is made) is 'cavalcade' = a procession of persons (usually on horseback) ❋ Nightnurse (2005)

He sat there like he'd turned the same on horseback as Sabethany had in her coffin; but he had to see almost a mile of us driving our best horses and carriages, wearing our wedding garments and fine raiment, and all that "cavalcade," father called it, of young, reckless riders. ❋ Unknown (1913)

On our return homewards, as we were crossing the lawn in front of the house, we heard the porter's bell ring at the lodge, and shortly afterwards, a kind of cavalcade advanced slowly up the avenue. ❋ Washington Irving (1821)

The media is invited to come out and support this CMDA "cavalcade" to the Food Bank loading docks on Monday, December 22nd beginning at 10am. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also, we're creating a kind of cavalcade at the end of the piece, which will be a danced medley that I'll put together from different de Mille pieces. "

A cavalcade of oddballs who are no doubt going to be in the hunt for the guy all come out of the woodwork. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I've generally tended to respond to questions like that with 'dont do this', where 'this' is whatever cavalcade of fail happens to be afoot at the time, but that doesnt seem to work well for everyone. ❋ Nnedi (2009)