But they moved aside when the king-pig approached and we proceeded in stately parade to the barn.
When these presents had been formally received, both families joined in a slow and stately parade to my house, while servants in the rear brought the bride's gifts - livestock, cloth, mats, furniture, and other things which would be useful to the new household.
The forecourts of pubs seemed to be a popular place to assemble and watch, but individuals as well as car clubs clustered to watch our stately, colorful parade.
Fifty years ago it was a stately parade of Beaux-Arts hotels and apartment houses that would very likely be preciously conserved today.
The couples in a stately parade speed up, the women are swung up by the waist, and the men execute butterfly jumps, the lining of their coats flaring upward.
To outsiders, and to many residents as well, the gaps left by the departure of the stately parades of Comus (pronounced KOH-muss) and others is barely felt.
If New York had a grand Ponte dei Perps, with assigned places for the press and room for a stately parade, perps could walk in dignity.
Far below, the ground crawled by in a slow and stately parade that had been going on for sixty thousand years.
Fortunate visitors, we have a front seat at the stately parade (lacking only the brass section of the Garde Republicaine band) as one after another of the great figures of the past is brought forward, scrutinized, passed in review and given a definitive catalogue.