 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 161by John Roy Musick - 1895Full view - About this book
 | Peter Edward Kern - 1917 - 556 pages
...retinue of the emperor approaching, 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 by four attendants of the... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1922 - 528 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Philip Terry - 1922 - 1080 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,... | |
 | Thomas Philip Terry - 1922 - 1068 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 borne on the shoulders of nobles, and HISTORY AND RACES clxxiii over it a canopy of gaudy feather-work, powdered with jewels and fringed... | |
 | Thomas Philip Terry - 1927 - 1066 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,... | |
 | Robert E. Anderson - 1915 - 424 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. It...nobles, and over it a canopy of gaudy feather-work, covered with jewels and fringed with silver, was supported by four attendants of the same rank." At... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1928 - 264 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....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,... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 2004 - 904 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...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... | |
 | William Prescott - 2005 - 761 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1910 - 692 pages
...that when MONTEZUMA alighted from his regal palanquin "blazing with burnished gold and overshadowed by a canopy of gaudy featherwork powdered with jewels and fringed with silver, " to grant audience to CORTEZ, his cloak and golden-soled sandals were sprinkled with pearls and other... | |
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