I observed that there was not a horse in his
retinue but that our carrier's packhorses in England seemed to me to look much better; though it was hard to judge rightly, for they were so covered with equipage, mantles, trappings, &c., that we could scarce see anything but their feet and their heads as they went along.
A dark, sallowish District Superintendent of Police, faultlessly uniformed, an Englishman, trotted by on a tired horse, and, seeing from her retinue what manner of person she was, chaffed her.
Still, when Brahmins but irritated with begging demands the mother of his master's wife, and when she sent them away so angry that they cursed the whole retinue (which was the real reason of the second off-side bullock going lame, and of the pole breaking the night before), he was prepared to accept any priest of any other denomination in or out of India.
"I do not understand," she said, and turning walked slowly in the direction of the door through which Issus and her
retinue had passed.
A good rule that, and only relaxed by courtesy in favour of the
retinue of visiting royalty from a friendly foreign power.
In Moscow as soon as he entered his huge house in which the faded and fading princesses still lived, with its enormous
retinue; as soon as, driving through the town, he saw the Iberian shrine with innumerable tapers burning before the golden covers of the icons, the Kremlin Square with its snow undisturbed by vehicles, the sleigh drivers and hovels of the Sivtsev Vrazhok, those old Moscovites who desired nothing, hurried nowhere, and were ending their days leisurely; when he saw those old Moscow ladies, the Moscow balls, and the English Club, he felt himself at home in a quiet haven.
He saw in the foreground Pilate's irritated face and the serene face of Christ, and in the background the figures of Pilate's
retinue and the face of John watching what was happening.
'Gentlemen, lead on!' With which word of command (addressed to an imaginary staff or
retinue) he folded his arms, and walked with surpassing dignity down the court.
Christine Stewart performed the honours at the town hall with the royal
retinue of ladies in waiting, Honey McMinn and Rhegan Copland, train bearers Giuliana Capriglione and Ava Smith, and pageboys, Freddie Brown and Curtis Ross, doing the duties.
The defendants, it was gathered, assembled a legal team comprising 20 Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) and other
retinue of lawyers to prosecute the case.
Regal 1970s Fallin gala
retinue. Can you name them?
The Pekan MP arrived at the compound at 1.55pm in a grey Audi Q7 and was quickly escorted by his legal
retinue into the building.
"Kamaru leaves behind a
retinue of notable proteges whose prowess in creating music he stoked and nurtured."
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retinue of staff, and a palatial condo in Manhattan.
The filmmakers instead saw a corrupt man in a corrupt situation surrounded by a (mostly) corrupt
retinue sacrificing a young woman to his ambitions.
