Procession

(noun.) the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation; 'processions were forbidden'.

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• Altogether, ours was a lively and a picturesque procession, and drew crowded audiences to the balconies wherever we went. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The festivities of a show began with a ceremonial procession (_pompa_) and a sham fight (_pr?lusio_). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But its sound had revived a long train of miserable Sundays, and the procession would not stop with the bell, but continued to march on. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Such a happy procession as filed away into the little dining room! 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• There was a moment of awful suspense as the procession waited for the Honourable Samuel Slumkey to step into his carriage. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The 15th of September was the day appointed, and there were eight locomotive engines provided to propel the same number of trains of carriages, which were to form the procession. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• One night, after receiving a satisfactory report of progress from Mr. Mason, superintendent of the cement plant, he said: The only way to keep ahead of the procession is to experiment. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Let me stand aside, to see the phantoms of those days go by me, accompanying the shadow of myself, in dim procession. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• If only we could look closelier, we should see through all these sixty centuries a procession of lives more and more akin in their fashion to our own. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Silence, melancholy bride of death, went in procession with him from town to town through the spacious region. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I soon discovered my mistake and found him to be train-bearer and organ-blower to a whole procession of people. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Possibly the leaders would travel too fast and too far on the road to perfection if conservatism did not also play its salutary part in insisting that the procession move forward as a whole. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• They still kept up this shaving procession as late as four or five years ago. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• We made quite a gay procession of it, and my child-wife was the gayest there. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The Grand Holy Land Funeral Procession would have been better--much better. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The road was filled with mule trains and long processions of camels. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The reflecting observer delights occasionally to shift the scenes of the present stage and bring to the front the processions of the past. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Some gazed on these processions with wild eagerness-- others fled timidly--some wept aloud. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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