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pomp
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    At which point, the Count closed the door and locked the Bishop into that room where pomp bides its time.†  (source)
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    The slow march began, sonorous with its ancient pomp, and Feyd-Rautha led his troupe across the arena for obeisance at the foot of his uncle's box.†  (source)
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    was a fate akin—more or less—to death; hence the pomp and spectacle of the arrangements, the grim sense of ceremony, as if Kitsey were some lost princess of Ur to be feasted and decked in finery and — attended by tambourine players and handmaidens — paraded down in splendor to the Underworld.†  (source)
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    He died in 1882 and was buried with great pomp and ceremony in Westminster Abbey as one of England's distinguished sons.†  (source)
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    "We'll all renounce the devil," he said, "together, not forgetting his works and pomps."†  (source)
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    "Pomper, pomper, pomper," was the sound that the wheels made as they trundled over the bridge, moving very slowly.†  (source)
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    It was generally assumed that she thought herself too good to work like the rest of the women and that Tea Cake "pomped her up tuh dat."†  (source)
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    There was an expectancy about its sounds and shapes: the distant chunk pomp of leather and young bodies on the practice field near her house made her think of bands and cold Coca-Colas, parched peanuts and the sight of people's breath in the air.†  (source)
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    Indeed it was—Sir William Bradshaw's motor car; low, powerful, grey with plain initials' interlocked on the panel, as if the pomps of heraldry were incongruous, this man being the ghostly helper, the priest of science; and, as the motor car was grey, so to match its sober suavity, grey furs, silver grey rugs were heaped in it, to keep her ladyship warm while she waited.†  (source)
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    "Pomper, pomper, pomper," was the sound that the wheels made as they trundled over the bridge, moving very slowly.†  (source)
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    So dey pomped him up.†  (source)
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    What occurs under the public gaze with so much pomp and ceremony is often the conclusion, or mere ratification, of what has taken place over weeks or months within the walls of such houses.†  (source)
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    and though among the holy pomps of the Romish faith, white is specially employed in the celebration of the Passion of our Lord;†  (source)
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