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To wear the stone of a land that was raped, and of a people who were brutalized, at frivolous British pageantries whilst drinking tea (from India, no less) is the ultimate insult.

Seema Jilani: Crown Jewels or Spoils of War? 2010

Alongside its class snobbery and scurrilous hilarity this poem also argues that truth cannot reside in a periodical publication: "Truth," Peter declaims, "Lifts her fair head, and looks with brow sublime/On all the fading pageantries of time" (Works 271) and especially on a magazine full of puffery, interest, and sham learning.

'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s 2006

Had they followed their hereditary taste, the New England settlers would have illustrated all events of public importance by bonfires, banquets, pageantries, and processions.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

Another instance of fractal self-similarity: pomps are pageantries, but 'of mist' maps them onto themselves with a ratio of slightly more than one.

_Queen Mab_ as Topological Repertoire 1997

Navonne, that square upon which Domitian had his circus, and which recalls the cruel pageantries of imperial Rome.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

The torrents of Maine are hasty young heroes, galloping so hard when they gallop, and charging with such rash enthusiasm when they charge, hurrying with such Achillean ardor toward their eternity of ocean, that they would never know the influence, in their heart of hearts, of blue cloudlessness, or the glory of noonday, or the pageantries of sunset, -- they would only tear and rive and shatter carelessly.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

Instead of being in an Oriental amphitheatre, he was standing in a rural lane; instead of tumult he found tranquillity; instead of regal pageantries an almost primitive simplicity.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

It had been strictly wedded to its pageantries since the time of the great Anne of Austria.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

The pomps of the religion, the pageantries of the court, and the munificence of the nobility, were never before characterised by so much grandeur and profusion.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

He revisited again, in thought, the blooming grove of Capreæ, the pageantries of Cesarea, the green lanes of Buckingham, the luxurious

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various