Then the boys were driven to the London Guildhall where the Lord Mayor, in full regalia, presented them with the key to the city before cheering throngs.

Unlike the Southern swing, launched under bright sun and cheering throngs, today's trip began in subdued, even surreal fashion amid slate-gray skies.

Past conventions exploited that climactic event with wide-angle shots of cheering throngs and cascades of balloons drifting down form the ceiling.

It seemed wondrously familiar to be riding into a great city down boulevards lined with cheering throngs.

It was midafternoon as Javan's coronation procession wound its way back up the hill to Rhemuth keep, through cheering throngs lining the streets.

In many cases, he is escorted by a local motorcade that whisks him, Presidential style, to his destination, where cheering throngs await.

The lack of cheering throngs along the curbs proved that the press agents were telling the truth, for once.

The sorry image that captured the overall performance came during the Triumphant Scene, as the stage filled with Egyptian soldiers, cheering throngs and captured Ethiopians.

Brazilians are taught that Santos Dumont, not the Wright Brothers, was the first man to fly, before cheering throngs in Paris in 1906.

Visions of cheering throngs welcoming them as liberators have vanished in the wake of a bloody engagement whose full casualties are still unknown.