Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times past become time present, and the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes, -these were to visit the firesides of the humble and lavish the treasures of the intellect upon the poor.
A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success.
It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.
Whiskey: a torchligh procession marching down your throat.
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go Rank after rank, with even feetAnd uniforms of snow.
America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.
Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.
A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.
In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.
In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.
In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.
What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior.
I think I like 'em better like that. . . divinely dull. . . just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.
It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.
The whole past is the procession of the present.
A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.
