1 The streets were black with loafing negroes who leaned against walls or sat on the curbing watching vehicles go past with the naive curiosity of children at a circus parade.
2 He rose and went abruptly to the window and stood with his back to her, watching the solemn single file of ducks parade across the barnyard.
3 And, because she made no parade of her virtues the young girls did not resent her.
4 But her high spirits slackened as she beheld them form in dress parade, in a long, silent, uneasy circle clear round the living-room.
5 There was nothing to parade over in those days.
6 During this parade, and at innumerable cart-tail meetings as well, Jurgis labored tirelessly.
7 Without waiting for an answer from either, the young man threw himself down the grassy steps of the bastion, and moving rapidly across the parade, he was quickly in the presence of their father.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15 8 A very few minutes only were necessary to parade a few files, and to dispatch an orderly with a flag to announce the approach of the commandant of the fort.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 16 9 Alice clung to the arm of her sister, and together they left the parade, accompanied by the moving throng that surrounded them.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 10 He once more endeavored to pass the supposed empiric, scorning even the parade of threatening to use the knife, or tomahawk, that was pendent from his belt.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25 11 The youth thought of the village street at home before the arrival of the circus parade on a day in the spring.
12 Chichikov sprang up with the alacrity of a military man, offered her his arm, and escorted her, as on parade, to the dining-room, where awaiting them there was the soup-toureen.
13 one is sometimes a bit hasty on parade.
14 Be at the levee tomorrow after the parade.
15 Because not everything happens as one expects or with the smoothness of a parade.