The
triumphal progress of the president continued throughout the evening.
Go and gaze upon all the paintings in Europe, and where will you find such a gallery of living and breathing commotion on canvas, as in that
triumphal hall at Versailles; where the beholder fights his way, pell-mell, through the consecutive great battles of France; where every sword seems a flash of the Northern Lights, and the successive armed kings and Emperors dash by, like a charge of crowned centaurs?
One engine only at full speed, drawing a
triumphal carriage, had the right of traveling for those four days on the railroads of the United States.
-Indian Dogs.-Return of a Horse-Stealing Party.- An Indian Deputation.-Fresh Alarms.-Return of a Successful War Party.-Dress of the Arickaras.- Indian Toilet.-
Triumphal Entry of the War Party.
As devout Eckerman lifted the linen sheet from the naked corpse of Goethe, he was overwhelmed with the massive chest of the man, that seemed as a Roman
triumphal arch.
The plain before the city became a veritable shambles ere the last Zodangan surrendered, but finally the carnage ceased, the prisoners were marched back to Helium, and we entered the greater city's gates, a huge
triumphal procession of conquering heroes.
With a solemn
triumphal march there mingled a song, the drip from the trees, and the hissing of the saber, "Ozheg-zheg-zheg..." and again the horses jostled one another and neighed, not disturbing the choir but joining in it.
This is the place for the multitude, which with true philosophic spirit, waits until the
triumphal pageants have passed, to know what to say of them, and sometimes also to know what to do.
At the door her sisters seized and bore her to the parlor in a
triumphal procession, all pointing and all saying at once, "Look there!
To which the courier replied in a harsh, discordant voice, "I am the devil; I am in search of Don Quixote of La Mancha; those who are coming this way are six troops of enchanters, who are bringing on a
triumphal car the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso; she comes under enchantment, together with the gallant Frenchman Montesinos, to give instructions to Don Quixote as to how, she the said lady, may be disenchanted."
"'Tis an illustrious name," said the lieutenant, "and had one day
triumphal honors paid to it."
Nothing was seen or heard further of Durbeyfield in his
triumphal chariot under the conduct of the ostleress, and the club having entered the allotted space, dancing began.