 | 1844 - 596 pages
...the city. Amidst a crowd of Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state, bearing golden wands, they saw the royal palanquin, blazing with burnished...and walked with a slow, measured pace, and with eyes bent down on the ground. When the train had come within a convenient distance, it halted, and Montezuma,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 248 pages
...burnished gold. It was borne on the shoulders of nobles, and over it a canopy of gaudy feather work, powdered with jewels, and fringed with silver, was...and walked with a slow, measured pace, and with eyes bent on the ground. When the train had come within a convenient distance, it halted, and Montezuma,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 354 pages
...the city. Amidst a crowd of Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state, bearing golden wands, they saw the royal palanquin blazing with burnished...shoulders of nobles, and over it a canopy of gaudy feather work, powdered with jewels, and fringed with silver, was supported by four attendants of the... | |
 | William Russell, John Goldsbury - 1845 - 292 pages
...city. Amidst a crowd of Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state, bearing golden wrands, they saw the royal palanquin, blazing with burnished...and walked with a slow, measured pace, and with eyes bent 011 the ground. When the train had come within a convenient distance, it halted ; and Montezuma,... | |
 | V. V. Vide - 1846 - 268 pages
...obsequious attendance around. It was preceded by three officers, bearing golden wands. Over it was a canopy of gaudy feather-work, powdered with- jewels, and fringed with silver, resting on four richly carved and inlaid pillars, and supported by four nobles of the same rank with... | |
 | John Frost - 1854 - 738 pages
...three officers of state bearing golden wands, the Spaniards saw the royal palan quin of Montezuma, blazing with burnished gold. It was borne on the shoulders...featherwork, powdered with jewels, and fringed with silver, and was supported 58 THE CONQUEST OP MEXICO. by four attendants of the same rank. They were barefooted,... | |
 | William O. Blake - 1856 - 1124 pages
...by three officers of state bearing golden wands, the Spaniards saw the royal palanquin of Montezuma, blazing with burnished gold. It was borne on the shoulders...featherwork, powdered with jewels, and fringed with silver, and was supported b/ four attendants of the same rank. They were barefooted, and walked with a slow... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1861 - 452 pages
...by three officers of state bearing golden wands, the Spaniards saw the royal palanquin of Montezuma, blazing with burnished gold. It was borne on the shoulders...featherwork, powdered with jewels, and fringed with silver, and was supported by four attendants of the same rank. They were barefooted, and walked with a slow,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 268 pages
...by three officers of state bearing golden wands, the Spaniards saw the royal palanquin of Montezuma, blazing with burnished gold. It was borne on the shoulders...and walked with a slow measured pace, and with eyes bent on the ground. When the train had come within a convenient distance, it halted; and Montezuma,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1871 - 530 pages
...by three officers of state bearing golden wands, the Spaniards saw the royal palanquin of Montezuma, blazing with burnished gold. It was borne on the shoulders...and walked with a slow measured pace, and with eyes bent on the ground. When the train had come within a convenient distance, it halted; and Montezuma,... | |
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Amidst a crowd of Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state, bearing golden wands,9 they saw the royal palanquin blazing with burnished gold, it was borne on the shoulders of nobles, and over it a canopy of gaudy feather-work, powdered with jewels,... 
