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...Pontiff's apartment trembled, parted, delivered up a gorgeous procession led by a canopied sedan chair on the shoulders of twelve scarlet-clad sediarii. Down vast corridors, down wide steps into the Sistine Chapel moved the procession. There the canopied chair opened and Pope Pius XI stepped out, knelt, worshipped. Entering the chair again, he had himself carried on to the entrance to the great nave of St. Peter's, his followers lowers carrying candles and chanting liturgical verses...
...Negro knelt; Potentate Marke bared his sword, tapped him on the head, exclaiming: "Arise, Sir E. Elliot! Arise!" The Bishop then blessed the Knight, who shook hands all around; and the performance was repeated. Among those honored, one woman was made a Lady. Twenty gold crosses and ten silver crosses were conferred. A Duke of Nyasa was to have been created, but the prospective Duke failed to appear...
...putrifying blood and rotting flesh, the odor and breath of a hyena." When day comes he looks out and sees "stamped in the dust of the threshold, two indents- one the footprint of a man; and the other the padded dog's spoor of an erect hyena. I knelt and examined them both closely. There was no mistake about it. One foot was a foot with toes; the other a foot with claws...
Before the derisive shouts of members of the Freshman class, assembled on the stops of Widener Library to have their pictures taken yesterday afternoon, the Seniors discarded their traditional dignity, and in their newly donned cape and gowns, knelt in supplication before the first year...
...Roman Stage," died trouping. She was on her farewell tour of the U. S. She had been giving only two performances a week, but the rigors of the American Winter and the ubiquitous devotion which was pressed upon her, finally shattered her spent body. In Boston the Italians knelt in the streets to kiss her skirts...