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" Amidst a crowd of Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state, bearing golden wands, they saw the royal palanquin blazing with burnished gold. It was borne on the shoulders of nobles, and over it a canopy of gaudy featherwork, powdered with jewels... "
Columbian Historical Novels - Page 161
by John Roy Musick - 1895
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School Reading by Grades: Sixth Year

James Baldwin - 1897 - 252 pages
...Amidst a crowd of 20 Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state bearing golden wands, they saw the royal palanquin blazing with burnished gold. It...shoulders of nobles, and over it a canopy of gaudy feather work, powdered with jewels and fringed with silver, was supported 25 by four attendants of...
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School Reading by Grades: First [-eighth] Year, Books 6-7

James Baldwin - 1897 - 488 pages
...Amidst a crowd of 20 Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state bearing golden wands, they saw the royal palanquin blazing with burnished gold. It...shoulders of nobles, and over it a canopy of gaudy feather work, powdered with jewels and fringed with silver, was supported 25 by four attendants of...
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School Reading by Grades: First [-eighth] Year, Book 6

James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 pages
...over it a canopy of gaudy feather work, powdered with jewels and fringed with silver, was supported 25 by four attendants of the same rank. They were barefooted, and walked with a slow, measured pace, and with eyes bent on the ground. When the train had come within a convenient...
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Mexico, and the Life of the Conqueror Fernando Cortes, Volume 1

William Hickling Prescott - 1898 - 484 pages
...cap. 16. crowd of Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state, bearing golden wands,9 they saw the royal palanquin blazing with burnished gold. It...same rank. They were bare-footed, and walked with a slow, measured pace, and with eyes bent on the ground. When the train had come within a convenient...
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Selections from "Ferdinand and Isbella," "The Conquest of Mexico" and "The ...

William Hickling Prescott - 1902 - 238 pages
...Amidst a crowd of Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state, bearing golden wands, they saw the royal palanquin blazing with burnished gold. It...shoulders of nobles, and over it a canopy of gaudy feather- work, powdered with jeXvels, and fringed with silver, was supported by four attendants of...
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Travellers and Explorers

1903 - 636 pages
...city. Amid a crowd of Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state bearing golden wands, they saw the royal palanquin, blazing with burnished gold....on the shoulders of nobles, and over it a canopy of gorgeous feather-work, powdered with jewels and fringed with silver, was supported by four attendants,...
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Practical Grammar, Based Upon the Text of Longfellow's "Evangeline" and a ...

William Christopher Sayrs - 1903 - 384 pages
...will determine what the participles modify.) 3. The palanquin was borne on the shoulders of nobles. 4. A canopy of gaudy feather-work, powdered with jewels...fringed with silver, was supported by four attendants. (Before attempting analysis, decide in your mind what the sentence really means. Does it mean that...
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Mexico: An Outline Sketch of the Country, Its People and Their History from ...

Thomas Philip Terry - 1909 - 112 pages
...Amidst a crowd of Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state bearing golden wands, they saw the royal palanquin blazing with burnished gold. It...was supported by four attendants of the same rank. "Montezuma wore the girdle and ample square tilmntli of his nation. It was made of the finest cotton,...
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Terry's Mexico: Handbook for Travellers

Thomas Philip Terry - 1909 - 928 pages
...Amidst a crowd of Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state bearing golden wands, they saw the royal palanquin blazing with burnished gold. It...was supported by four attendants of the same rank. "Montezuma wore the girdle and ample square tilmatli of his nation. It was made of the finest cotton,...
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Mexico: An Outline Sketch of the Country, Its People and Their History from ...

Thomas Philip Terry - 1909 - 110 pages
...preceded by three officers of state bearing olden wands, they saw the royal palanquin blazing with "It was borne on the shoulders of nobles, and over...was supported By four attendants of the same rank. "Montezuma wore the girdle and ample square tUmatli of his nation. It was made of the finest cotton,...
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