cavalcade

• Rajapaksa, who cut short his three-day visit to Nepal, 'unequivocally condemned the cowardly terrorist attack' in which six members of the cricket team were injured and five escorting Pakistani security personnel killed when the cavalcade was attacked by heavily armed gunmen as it as on its way to Gaddafi Stadium for the third day's play in the second Test. —  India eNews
• Yet she suffered no word or sign of her affection to escape her, for Prince Florizel thought her only a little page, and to speak would be to betray the secret she had so long and successfully guarded One morning, as the cavalcade was riding through a charming country, Florian, for so we must still continue to call Isabella, was following close behind his master, when the Prince caught sight of a wonderful scarlet flower, something like a scarlet lily, blooming by the roadside. —  The Firelight Fairy Book
• Evidently they had no fear of being observed by hostile eyes, for, as they advanced, they waved their rifles about their heads and yelled exultingly Fortunately for the party on the summit of the mesa, their stock was tethered on the opposite side of the formation to that on which the cavalcade was approaching. —  The Border Boys Across the Frontier
• "Scott's heavy lumbering buffetier had provided himself against the mountain storms with a huge cloak, which, when the cavalcade was at gallop, streamed at full stretch from his shoulders, and kept flapping in the other's face, who, having more than enough to do in preserving his own equilibrium, could not think of attempting at any time to control the pace of his steed, and had no relief but fuming and pesting at the sacré manteau_, in language happily unintelligible to its wearer. —  Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series)
• Equerries, outriders, and military guards precede and surround the royal carriages, and the cavalcade is lengthened by having a coche de respecto_, caparisoned with equal splendour, following each one in which a royal person is being conveyed. —  Spanish Life in Town and Country

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