 | 1844 - 596 páginas
...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...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 - 354 páginas
...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 páginas
...city. Amidst a crowd of Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state, bearing golden wrands, they saw the royal palanquin, blazing with burnished...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, descending... | |
 | V. V. Vide - 1846 - 268 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Charles C. Jones - 1873 - 622 páginas
..."When Montezuma alighted from his regal palanquin, " blazing with burnished gold " and overshadowed by a " canopy of gaudy feather-work powdered with jewels and fringed with silver," to grant personal audience to Cortez, his ample cloak and golden-soled sandals were sprinkled with... | |
 | Charles Sherwill Dawe - 1874 - 282 páginas
...the city he was met by the monarch himself, seated on a palanquin, blazing with burnished gold, under a canopy of gaudy feather-work, powdered with jewels, and fringed with silver. The Mexican monarch resembled an Oriental despot, and in the eyes of his subjects was almost a divine... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 páginas
...the city he was met by the monarch himself seated on a palanquin blazing with burnished gold, under a canopy of gaudy featherwork powdered with jewels and fringed with silver. The Mexican monarch resembled an Oriental despot, and in the eyes of his subjects was almost a divine... | |
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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 feather-work, powdered with jewels,... 
