Word: regalias
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...None the less I personally chopped down my own Christmas tree and superintended its decoration. Later I donned the full regalia of a Prussian Feldmarschall, inspected the servants' quarters and distributed gifts among the domestic staff. With the approach of evening I clapped a black skull cap upon my head, and delivered a sermon on the Nativity to an audience composed of Hermine (my wife), Wilhelm and members of the Dutch nobility. Finally Hermine and I seated ourselves upon an improvised throne in the Great Hall. Behind us was placed a huge scowling bust of Frederick the Great. I presented...
...creation from Rome); knelt on a coronation cushion the République has frugally preserved from monarchial times; felt the soft folds of the cappa magna fall over his shoulders from the hands of his brother cardinal; passed into a makeshift vestry; donned in privacy the complete cardinalitial regalia; stepped out a prince of the Church; accepted felicitations. The band blared to perfection the Marseillaise...
...troop of the German Reichswehr was officially present. President von Hindenburg in full war regalia arrived by motor a few moments later. After a representative of the sometime Kaiser had placed a wreath on the memorial, the President did likewise with the words: "Your blood shall and will never be shed in vain...
Vice Chancellor Joseph Wells of Oxford University put polishing touches to an address in choicest Latin, donned historic regalia, had the students summoned before him and convoked them for the term with the following among other words (translated...
Through the streets of Eastbourne (England) there passed in full regalia, last week, a procession of 2,000 clergymen-bishops, deans, vicars and curates-which recalled the days of Cardinal Wolsey, famed and hospitable entertainer of Henry VIII...