What is "ceremoniously"

Usage examples of "ceremoniously".

The dozen or so Citizens whose rank permitted them to assist then solemnly dissolved the spinal fluids in water and ceremoniously drank the potion down, at which time it was proper to offer a small poem in commentary.

Bowing, he wrapped midarms around his chest and backed ceremoniously from their presence.

We ceremoniously stripped to our skin and made love like animals into the teeth of the wind and the groan of the sea.

Several other things were ceremoniously added to the grave: shafts of mammoth tusk that had been straightened, spears, flint knives and daggers, carvings of a mammoth, a bison, and a horse -- not as well made as Ranec's, Ayla thought.

A little later her surprise was increased by his sending her with a note to the Ascoli Palace, and by the quick return of an answer, brought ceremoniously by one of Fabio's servants.

Kirk took it from her, and going up to Odona, while the crew stood at full attention, he pinned it ceremoniously to her shoulder.

The door of this great banquet room was not large enough to accommodate Terrybubble, so Speedy exacted a promise from the dinoSaur to stay exactly where he was before joining the others, then, with the most carefree feeling he had enjoyed since leaving the earth, he sank down between Waddy and Bamboula in a chair an umbrella footman ceremoniously drew out for him.

Thorvin had told the pair of them to sit to one side while they finished their strange meeting: first him talking, then some kind of discussion in the burring Norse Shef could almost follow, and then a skin of some drink passed ceremoniously from hand to hand.

Before Capril could gather his thoughts, the man removed his earring and ceremoniously dropped it to the floor.

He chuckled and in a clowning mood he shook hands with me and greeted me ceremoniously.

Two wolves, a couple of dingoes and a bat-eared fox came marching ceremoniously down the aisle.

Thirty-one-year-old Karen Simpson, a deeply tanned, peroxide blonde wearing a bright aqua dress, steps out from the driver's seat and ceremoniously walks around to the passenger door to assist her mother, Dory, from the vehicle.

So Clemens had taken back the name and ceremoniously had it painted on the hull.

For each dog sniffed daintily and then stalked to a cotton plant on stiff legs, raised a hind foot ceremoniously and wetted, then went back to smell.

Marriage is looked upon as primarily a civil contract, and, subject to certain conditions and to a proper provision for children, is dissoluble at the will of both contracting parties, the divorce, or 'unloosing', being formally and ceremoniously accomplished by going through certain portions of the marriage ceremony backwards.