How To Use Chariot In A Sentence
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For example, the conquering Hittite King Shuppiluliuma I 1344–1322 B.C. stopped in southeastern Anatolia to review his troops and chariots before continuing onward to his goal, the siege of the city of Carchemish.
The Trojan War
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And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them a hundred chariots.
1 Chronicles 18.
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They were primarily portraitists, but Thomas is now chiefly remembered for his dramatic Boadicea monument at Westminster Bridge, London, showing the fearsome warrior queen in her chariot.
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The Medes, perhaps, had such chariots, though no traces of them are found in Assyrian remains.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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An impression of the original statue group on top may be gained from the chariot groups on the triumphal arch in the relief on the south.
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In the poem, Hector's body, attached to Achilles' chariot and dragged around Troy, cannot be mutilated because Aphrodite has anointed it with ambrosia.
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The terret would originally have been attached to a chariot yoke, probably serving to guide the reins for a double harness.
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They had long been sailing west upon their expeditious and stead ship, the sun had now sat upon her throne, and her red and gold stallions that drew her chariot pranced among the hoary clouds.
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Wargames Factory have posted a photo of a painted version of the "Boudicca" figure that is included in their upcoming Celt Chariot boxed set.
Tabletop Gaming News
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Poseidon clothes himself in raiment of gold, grasps his gold whip, and takes his stand upon his chariot.
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In his gardens and chariot-racing center, called the hippodrome, almost a thousand people were brutally murdered.
Raw Story
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Why not include hand-to-hand battles with Roman characters, or even chariot races for control of a particular piece of land?
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Phoebus > (Who each day drives his chariot across the sky) 9 In western waves his weary wagon did recure. recure > restore, refresh
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot - Percy helps Clarisse, when her half brothers, the demigods Phobos (fear) and Deimos (terror) take Ares chariot, which he had entrusted to Clarisse.
Dusk Before the Dawn » 2009 » March
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The yatras have in the past sparked clashes in Ahmedabad as Hindu devotees - armed with swords, tridents and spears - hurled anti-Muslim insults from atop chariots and trucks.
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The time came for the chariots to be used and the reinsmen lined their war wagons up, the chains connecting each to the other in pairs.
The Eternal Mercenary
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If we had in our power the pen which traced the delicate marvels of Queen Mab, not bigger than an agate that glitters on the finger of an alderman, of her liny chariot, of her diaphanous team, only then should we succeed in giving an idea of a purely ideal talent into which matter enters hardly at all.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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The chariot, drawn by four horses, was wreathed in laurel, and the triumphator was attired like the Capitoline Jupiter in robes of purple and gold.
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When the chariot rolled away, he looked at her as she sat erect in the early morning light, as unblenched, bright and untouched in bloom as if she had that moment risen from her pillow and washed her face in dew.
A Lady of Quality
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The shield ([Greek: aspis]), we are told by followers of Reichel, was only worn by princes who could afford to keep chariots, charioteers, and squires of the body to arm and disarm them.
Homer and His Age
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Louis XI spoke of "la goutte d'or" (the golden drop) in the wines, and Mr. Joly has a picture of Louis the XIV touring the vineyards in a chariot.
Mr. Joly's Particularly Pure Terroir
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Mango fresh cream pastry, mango mousse, mango tarts, and mango souffle are only a few of what Sweet Chariot on Brigade Road offers mango lovers.
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But then the wheels came off the England chariot as they collapsed in spectacular fashion after a catalogue of errors.
The Sun
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And what sort of landowner would refuse to play host to a concours d' élégance at which owners of magnificent chariots - Lagondas, Delages, Rolls-Royces - could admire each other's turnout?
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The joyous soul, charioted from pleasure to pleasure by the graceful mechanism of well-formed limbs, will suddenly feel the axle-tree give way, and spring and wheel dissolve in dust.
The Last Man
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'In some Provinces you even wear the _paenula_ (military cloak) and ride in the _carpentum_ (official chariot), as a proof of your dignity.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
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The chariot had been placed in a large oval pit in the centre of a square ditched enclosure.
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Other live chariot races have been staged over the years but none has evoked the same sense of danger and excitement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yea, the charioteer is the son of the King of Gabra, and it is
The Coming of Cuculain
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Chariot's sidecar for bikes is ingenious, not only to its approach to mounting a sidecar to a bike, but also in its approach to the baby-transport problem in the first place.
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Where the huge velarium that Nero had stretched across the Colosseum at Rome, that Titan sail of purple on which was represented the starry sky, and Apollo driving a chariot drawn by white, gilt-reined steeds?
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The chariot had not many minutes got into the great road again, over the like rough and sometimes plashy ground, when it stopt on a dispute between the coachman, and the coachman of another chariot-and-six, as it proved.
Sir Charles Grandison
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Then she sent for her chariot of green rushes, ornamented with May dewdrops, which she particularly valued and always collected with great care; and ordered her six short-tailed moles to carry them all back to the well-known pastures, which they did in a remarkably short time; and Sylvain and Jocosa were overjoyed to see their dearly-loved home once more after all their toilful wanderings.
The Green Fairy Book
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Enemy models attempting to fight against the chariot in hand-to-hand fighting always compare their weapon skill against that of the crew.
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Chariot races staged in the hippodrome - always a crowd-pleaser - opened the games.
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But an earthquake had changed the scene — under our very feet the earth yawned — deep and precipitous the gulph below opened to receive us, while the hours charioted us towards the chasm.
The Last Man
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Iron components of the chariot were found in a good state of preservation, including the two wheel rims and hub - hoops, the yoke fittings, harness and horse bits.
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The Queen's litter is depicted as followed by six ladies riding upon palfreys, and by three chariots each followed similarly: these would be the peeresses and ladies of the household.
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Rumour is that in his headlong hurry, when mounting behind his yoked horses to begin the battle, he left his father's sword behind and caught up his charioteer Metiscus 'weapon; and that served him long, while Teucrian stragglers turned their backs; when it met the divine Vulcanian armour, the mortal blade like brittle ice snapped in the stroke; the shards lie glittering upon the yellow sand.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Henry the fourth of France had but one coach between himself and his queen; whereas no respectable person can now dispense at the least with a travelling chariot, a barouche, a cab, and a dennet.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 381, July 18, 1829
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When he picked the man up, he arrived in a horse drawn chariot, which he drove himself.
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At the meeting Madhya Pradesh Kshatriya Samaj president Rajendra Singh Tomar announced that their community will give Rs50 lakh 'rath' chariot to Singh to tour for the cause of Kshatriyas.
Analysis
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The very construction of his native constituency that permeates "the human form divine" involve those agitative and sleepless precipitants that ever stir, stimulate, and woo him on to investigate, to weigh, and measure principles of the universe that draw his chariot from the individual center to the impalpable periphery.
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,
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Who's driving the winged chariot?
Times, Sunday Times
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The sleek lines, driver's side mirror, and moulded plastic hubcaps present an image more like the chariot of some ancient mechanical god than a compact sedan.
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Only the nobility participated in warfare, using the symbol of medieval chivalry, the chariot.
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Genius, devotion, and courage; the adornments of his mind, and the energies of his soul, all exerted to their uttermost stretch, could not roll back one hair's breadth the wheel of time's chariot; that which had been was written with the adamantine pen of reality, on the everlasting volume of the past; nor could agony and tears suffice to wash out one iota from the act fulfilled.
I.8
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Chariots and horsemen, men and maidens, the grim visages of age and the dusky beauty of youth, in lengthened procession, with palms, and music, and benediction, in behalf of that early world paid the last tribute to a great and just benefactor, to a builder
Abraham Lincoln: The Just Magistrate, the Representative Statesman, the Practical Philanthropist
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Chariots can not move over obstacles or difficult terrain except to cross a river at a bridge or ford.
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Its love triangle is mowed down by time's winged chariot.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bronze chariot proved to be a valuable find.
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I love the story of Elijah, and when they're surrounded by the army and someone says to him, "We're surrounded, we're never going to escape," he asked God to open his eyes, and he sees the whole mountainside is filled with chariots of fire.
Mike Ragogna: Motown & The Hitmen : Conversations with Smokey Robinson, Jimmy Ryan, and Sarah Sample
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In The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony are accurately described a large number of antimonial preparations, and as Basil was supposed to have written this work some time in the fifteenth century, these preparations were accordingly concluded to have been, for the most part, his own discoveries.
Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
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The monument is constructed of pure white marble and features majestic stairways, tall Corinthian columns, fountains, a huge equestrian sculpture of Victor Emmanuel, two statues of vicotry goddesses riding on quadrigas four horse chariots, and a tomb to an unknown soldier.
Rome With A View at eternallycool.net
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Bring me my chariot of fire!
Times, Sunday Times
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– that not a prince, not a charioteer, not a bowman was there to join his hand with mine?
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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It is decorated with flowers and is also known as the phool rath, or the chariot of flowers.
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The rope and the gibbet is to be his portion; die he must; and what honour a man wins or saves, by that which gives him an opportunity of being hanged, is hard to be understood; but he that mistakes the cart for a triumphal chariot, or the gallow-tree for a triumphal arch, may apply himself to the obtaining such victories as these.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
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Chariot races were held in the Champs de Mars.
Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
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It charioted Mr. Hill to a Le Mans championship that year, making him the first American to earn such honors.
The Most Beautiful Cars of Le Mans
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The English rugby anthem Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was bellowed out by more than 600 fans, eager to see their team finally clinch the longed-for title.
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Although some of its elements developed earlier in Mesopotamia, full body armour was apparently first used by Mycenaean Greek charioteers in the last few centuries of the Bronze Age.
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Meanwhile, the charioteers then move away and place their chariots in such a way that the warriors can easily get back on them if they are hard pressed by the size of the enemy.
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Rehoboam himself managed to mount his chariot and flee to Jerusalem.
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But ye wadna wait to hear out my tale, Monkbarns -- she gaed out, and she came in again with the gardener sae sune as she saw that nane o 'ye were clodded ower the Craig, and that Miss Wardour was safe in the chariot; she was hame a quarter of an hour syne, for it's now ganging ten -- sair droukit was she, puir thing, sae I e'en put a glass o' sherry in her water-gruel.
The Antiquary — Volume 01
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In 55 BC, Celtic warriors used cavalry and horse-drawn chariots to oppose Caesar's invasion.
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Over the gilt balustrade surmounting the cornice lolled the figures of fauns, bacchantes, nereids and tritons, hovered over by a cloud of amorini blown like rose-leaves across a rosy sky, while in the centre of the dome Apollo burst in his chariot through the mists of dawn, escorted by a fantastic procession of the human races.
The Valley of Decision
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When you subject the concept of chariot to analysis, you are never going to find some kind of metaphysically or substantially real chariot that is independent of the parts that constitute the chariot.
Training the Mind: Verse 1
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Gailenga, at Telach-Maine; the buck speaking out of the bodies of the thieves in the territory of Ui-Meith; the travelling of the garron without any guide to Druimmic-Ublae, when he lay down beside the grain of wheat; the chariot, without a charioteer, [going] from Armagh to
The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
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On the upper part of the chariot lay an effigy, representing his person in royal robes, with an imperial crown of gold, beset with jewels of an inestimable value on its head, with a sceptre in the right hand, and a globe in the left.
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For Plato, the soul was an Ideal, a kind of living idea, that existed in a state of transmutability—it could change all the time—until it entered the darkness of the body, becoming “the pilot of the body, as a charioteer is the pilot of the horses who pull his chariot.”
The Wonder of Children
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To us, time is a winged chariot speeding up towards old age and death.
Times, Sunday Times
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Morgan emphasizes that these scenes show horses and chariots, the earliest such representations in fresco.
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Sometimes their attendants screened them from the sun by holding up a shield (as is still done in Southern Africa), or by some other contrivance; but the chariot of the king or of a princess, was often furnished with a large parasol; and the flabella borne behind the king, which belonged exclusively to royalty, answered the same purpose.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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No one had yet thought to build chariots or ride horses.
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Nothing was seen or heard further of Durbeyfield in his triumphal chariot under the conduct of the ostleress, and the club having entered the allotted space, dancing began.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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They made tools, ploughshares, chariots, chain armour, and many more strong and serviceable implements.
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Monkeys were dressed as soldiers and rode atop goats harnessed to a small chariot.
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Miss Wardour was safe in the chariot; she was hame a quarter of an hour syne, for it's now ganging ten --- sair droukit was she, puir thing, sae I e'en put a glass o 'sherry in her water-gruel.' '
The Antiquary
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And also such another chariot with such hosts ordained and arrayed go with the empress upon another side, everych by himself, with four hosts, right as the emperor did; but not with so great multitude of people.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Oh, and a chariot race.
Times, Sunday Times
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A golden dolphin, which had been suspended from a beam, and on which the eye of every charioteer was fixed, dropped to the ground, a blast on the 'salpinx', or war-trumpet, was sounded, and forty-eight horses flew forth as though thrown forward by one impulsion.
Serapis — Volume 06
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The Persian plan was to use the scythed chariots—deadly vehicles with blades attached to their wheels—first to tear through the enemy and throw the lines into confusion, opening their own hole in the Macedonian army.
Alexander the Great
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And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.
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For as the reins give no trouble to the charioteer, but the charioteer is the cruise of all the mischief through his not holding them properly: (and therefore do they often exact a penalty of him, entangling themselves with him, and dragging him on, and compelling him to partake in their own mishap:) so is it also in the case before us.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
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Pertinax exposed to public auction, 51 gold and silver plate, chariots of a singular construction, a superfluous wardrobe of silk and embroidery, and a great number of beautiful slaves of both sexes; excepting only, with attentive humanity, those who were born in a state of freedom, and had been ravished from the arms of their weeping parents.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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It was a breathtaking display of skill, his chariot wheel missing the pole by no more than a handbreadth.
Shield of Thunder
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Outside the dolium were a banquet service consisting of a small bronze and iron table, ribbed bronze phialai (libation bowls), and other vessels; an ax, lance, helmet, and scepter; and the iron fittings of a two-wheeled chariot.
Dig Like a Surgeon
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Their cavalry and chariots of war filled the interjacent field with great tumult and boundings to and fro.
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola
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His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers.
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Not even explosions of ticker tape, elevating platforms, glowing stages, ghost-like dancers wielding flaming torches, dancing trees, roller-skating bees, and even a giant caterpillar could match the collective gasp when Williams finally appeared, alone, carried aloft on a glass chariot.
Take That – review
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That yellow bus with its flimsy metal sides and its driver I didn't know from Adam charioted away what was in effect everything to me.
Tell No One
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But archaeologists who worked on the extraordinary excavation in East Yorkshire that revealed a rare Iron Age chariot buried with the skeleton of a statuesque woman, are urging caution.
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Theban blood; with no wild waving of the thyrsus, clad in fawnskin thou dancest, but with chariots and bitted steeds wheelest thy charger strong of hoof.
The Phoenissae
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Any chariots may have scythed wheels at an additional cost of 20 points per chariot.
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Theban blood; with no wild waving of the thyrsus, clad in fawnskin thou dancest, but with chariots and bitted steeds wheelest thy charger strong of hoof.
The Phoenissae
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Harnessed four lions to a chariot, assembled an entourage of magicians, dancing girls, and clowns, and roistered heedlessly.
Antony and Cleopatra
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For a year or so past he's held the hot air chair on the front end of one of these sightseein 'chariots, cheerin' the out of town buyers and wheat belt tourists with the flippest line of skyscraper statistics handed out through any megaphone in town.
Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe
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Many show astrological figures: Aquarius wading through water, Mercury standing among clouds, Venus in a chariot drawn by swans.
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None of the other students kept chariots at school, but Zeus had made an exception for her after four deer had followed her back from a second-grade field trip to Mount Parnassus in southern Greece.
Artemis the Brave
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Auriga is depicted by a charioteer who holds a goat in his left arm and some suckling kids in his lap.
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Incidentally, some linguists would add PIE to this group, with the view that the language, or some key fraction of its speakers, spread over vast territories through ascendancy built on such technological advances as the spoked chariot wheel and weapons forged of metal.iii
The English Is Coming!
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Historians believe the sport's origins date to European Celtics who would toss chariot wheels attached to axles.
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So, the Bride had mounted into her handsome chariot, incidentally accompanied by the Bridegroom; and after rolling for a few minutes smoothly over a fair pavement, had begun to jolt through a Slough of Despond, and through a long, long avenue of wrack and ruin.
Little Dorrit
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After Alexander conquered the city, he had Batis tied to a chariot and dragged round the city's walls until he died an excruciating death.
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And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
Joshua 11.
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Shalott stepped from the chariot and gave a formal curtsy.
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When Beekman purchased his coach from his agent in London, he was already the proud possessor of a chaise, a chariot, and a phaeton.
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She has been depicted as a queen or princess in the same tradition as Boadicea, her hair streaming in the wind as she rides her chariot into war.
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Though he was not strong enough in French blazon to know the house that bore that device, Antonin felt sure that the Cinq-Cygnes would not send their chariot, nor the Princess de Cadignan a missive by her maid, except to a person of the highest nobility.
The Deputy of Arcis
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At the triumphal procession through the streets of Rome that followed in 44, Messalina was permitted to follow her husband’s chariot in a mule-drawn carpentum, ahead of the victorious generals from the campaign, and the couple’s son, hitherto known by the name Tiberius Claudius Caesar Germanicus, received the new sobriquet Britannicus in recognition of his father’s great victory.
Caesars’ Wives
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Iron components of the chariot were found in a good state of preservation, including the two wheel rims and hub - hoops, the yoke fittings, harness and horse bits.
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First he used an unexpected route to arrive before the city, then he charged with the largest chariot corps that Egypt had so far possessed and won substantial booty, including over 2,000 valuable horses.
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The charioteers were crack units of specially-trained frogmen who sat astride a 30 ft-long torpedo which they steered into enemy harbours.
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Bhante Ngasena, I speak no lie: the word chariot is but a way of counting, term appellation, convenient designation, and name for pole, axle, wheels, chariot-body, and banner-staff.
There Is No Ego. II. The Doctrine. 1. Translated from the Milindapañha (251).
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In accordance with the time-honoured custom of generals, he was carried in on a four-horse chariot and clothed in purple, a far more brilliant hue than any other.
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His body was unmarked and perfected from combat and charioting.
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In that battle, Ahab was scarcely able to muster 7,000 soldiers much less any chariots or horsemen.
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{350} into the quillet that _his_ thunderbolt had stopped the chariot of the Sun and knocked the Greenwich Phaeton off the box, is the same which betrayed him into yet grander error -- which deserves the full word,
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
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Smite him also in the chariot: [and they struck him] at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam.
The World English Bible (WEB):
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His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers.
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There will also be five "quadrigas", or four-horsed chariots, belting around the place.
British Blogs
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He said, ‘First the horses of your chariots will be unyoked, then even on this narrow pass the chariots can easily be turned round.’
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It appeared in the film Chariots of Fire.
Times, Sunday Times
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This star used to belong both to Auriga, where it was known as the heel of the Charioteer ...and to the constellation Taurus, where it represented the tip of the Bull's northern horn.
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In the Chinese chess, the chariot takes in a straight line.
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An armed figure with Corinthian helmet, cuirass, and greaves, and holding a spear and round shield, runs with a very wide stride behind each chariot.
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The word curriculum is derived from the Latin word for ‘race course’; the diminutive, currus, means chariot.
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A chariot race was announced, but after townspeople arrived to watch, they were locked in the stadium and attacked by imperial soldiers.
Christianity Today
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One man who did take time to visit Hudson is Lord Puttnam, whose patronage led to Hudson helming Chariots Of Fire after a long apprenticeship in documentaries.
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Some contain the remains of a chariot and the pair of horses that once pulled it.
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Out of the East men were moving endlessly: swordsmen, spearmen, bowmen upon horses, chariots of chieftains and laden wains.
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After this, Bacchus was seen marching in battalia, riding in a stately chariot drawn by six young leopards.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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There will be performed a serenata called Chariottenburg Festegiante set to music by HM the King of Prussia.
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We reached the gate, where an elegant chariot pulled by two horses stood, and the pharaoh stood beside them.
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Jerusalem, but that he would be borne thither in ignominy instead of in his magnificent chariots.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The Gaikwar of Baroda in his luxurious chariot did not sleep any better than the innocent and humble mortals that occupied our beds.
Modern India
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The most important of all is a lampstand - complete with bronze legs made to look like horses' feet which archaeologists suspect may have been buried along with a famous charioteer.
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Then the wheelwright lays his axe to its roots that he may fashion a felloe for the wheel of some goodly chariot, and it lies seasoning by the waterside.
The Iliad of Homer
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There were bands on horses and bands on chariots, and at the tail of the procession a fearful and wonderful instrument bearing the euphonious and classic name of the "calliope," whose chief function seemed to be that of terrifying the farmers 'horses into frantic and determined attempts to escape from these horrid alarms of the city to the peaceful haunts of their rural solitudes.
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail
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Thousands carrying swords, tridents and saffron flags marched in front of the chariots all the way down to the river.
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Horses were first used to pull chariots, and it was not until horses large enough to carry a man had been bred, broken, and trained that the cavalryman proper made his appearance.
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In our file of five charabancs, a charioted army, we swept down the thundering hills.
Cider With Rosie
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The more abject you felt, the more likely was it that you would appreciate their pinchbeck glories; and you sat on, in the darbar vehicle, the two lean horses foaming with the drive from the guest-house, under the weight of a not too modern chariot and a harness patched up with strips of soiled rag or old packing-cord.
Love and Life Behind the Purdah
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The Pump Wagon is heavily constructed and has the same basic profile as a chariot.
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But time's winged chariot is doing its thing.
Times, Sunday Times
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They travelled in a decorated chariot, followed on foot by the cowherds.
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They made tools, ploughshares, chariots, chain armour, and many more strong and serviceable implements.
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And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for a hundred chariots.
2 Samuel 8.
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He who holds back arisen anger as one checks a whirling chariot, him I call a charioteer; other folk only hold the reins.
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And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen, and he houghed all the chariot horses, only a hundred chariots, which he reserved for himself.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
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Upon the next slab, a war chariot in full speed, passing over a dead lion, is represented; and on the sixth and last slab of the compartment is another battlepiece.
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
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On entering the temple, the guru performs three circumambulations along with the goddess seated in a golden chariot.
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The charioteers of Tiranoc, famed throughout the land for their skill and daring, raced between their white marble cities.
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Truth is not hidden from the Friend of God," replied the hasheesh-eater, "I have erred being drunken with the hasheesh, for in the desiderate city, even in London, so thick upon the ways is the white sea-sand with which the city glimmers that no sound comes from the path of the charioteers, but they go softly like a light sea-wind.
Tales of Wonder
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The charioteer was a little diamond-headed fellow who straddled the neck of the dragon and moved the levers that made it go.
The Lost Princess of Oz
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According to Greek mythology, the Sun-god Helios wearing a yellow robe rode in a golden chariot drawn by four fiery horses across the heavenly firmament.
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And let some one give me the firm support of his hand, that I may beseemingly leave the chariot-seat.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
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And speaking of which, after a fashion, experiments with new routes into work took me past Chariots, which looks from the outside like the bastard lovechild of a Greek restaurant and an auto repair shop.
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The charioteer was a Nubian, wearing bracelets of gold, as well as otherwise richly attired.
The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
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The Pump Wagon is heavily constructed and has the same basic profile as a chariot.
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Spenser's art) 7 The warlike beech; the ash for nothing ill; warlike > (Because war-chariots in antiquity were reputedly made of beech) 8 The fruitful olive; and the platan round; platan > plane-tree
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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May thy sons be brave, victorious, good charioteers and worthy of sitting in councils of men.
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Some by the four chariots understand the four monarchies; and then they read (v. 5), These are the four winds of the heavens, and suppose that therein reference is had to Dan.vii. 2, where Daniel saw, in vision, the four winds of the heavens striving upon the great sea, representing the four monarchies.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Let him taste your irony; ply him with your keen incessant questions; and if you will, perorate with the mighty Zeus charioting his winged car through Heaven, and grudging if this fellow get not his deserts.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01
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The octennial festival hitherto celebrated at Delphi in honor of the god, including no other competition except in the harp and the pæan, was expanded into comprehensive games on the model of the Olympic, with matches not only of music, but also of gymnastics and chariots -- celebrated, not at Delphi itself, but on the maritime plain near the ruined Cirrha -- and under the direct superintendence of the Amphictyons themselves.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
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It has an octagonal medallion within which a highly stylized woman drives a chariot in the clouds.
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I don't think Boudica would have been using a chariot at all - it takes two horses and two warriors to throw one set of javelins from a chariot, which is inefficient in anyone's book.
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If they rode in on a real horse, I had a golden chariot drawn by two horses.
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Oinomaos had invited suitors to vie for Hippodameia by competing with him in a chariot race.
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He commanded that the hearts of Roland, Olivier, and Turpin be taken from their bodies, wrapped, and inurned, and the bodies borne home in chariots.
National Epics
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She travelled in a chariot drawn by cats, the latter being her sacred animal symbol and familiars.
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The chariot of those days was somewhat like today's ekka.
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He trawled through public libraries and records offices for information about the ‘chariots’, and attempted to trace some of the people in his father's photographs and letters.
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Should I turn my face backward," said the gilla; "methinks the poles of yon chariot will pass through the back of my neck.
The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge
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But an earthquake had changed the scene -- under our very feet the earth yawned -- deep and precipitous the gulph below opened to receive us, while the hours charioted us towards the chasm.
Dave Astor: Mary Shelley and 9/11
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They were armed, horsed, and charioted; the poor Hebrew wanderers were afoot.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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When did you last get that chariot ride of emotion and catharsis that Aristotle thought was so good for us all?
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Alcestis was the daughter of Pelias, who proclaimed to all her suitors that the only man who could take her hand would be one who could yoke a lion and a boar to a chariot.
2010 May « The BookBanter Blog
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Since no horse could be found to bear her weight she used to career about after hounds in Windsor Great Park in a small chariot.
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He rides a massive chariot pulled by three wolves, and swings his mighty axe Elf-Biter.
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The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
Nahum 2.
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Charioteers would steer towards their targets with just their head and shoulders above water until, 60 feet out, they would dive to a depth of about 30 feet.
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The film producer behind Chariots of Fire said the scheme was unworkable.
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The bronze chariot proved to be a valuable find.
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Well, I will dismiss my chariot, and go with you.
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Then they called a hackney-coach, which conveyed them to an inn, where they were furnished with a chariot and six, in which they set forward for
The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
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After I had written to my aunt and told her of my fortunate meeting with my admired old schoolfellow, and my acceptance of his invitation, we went out in a hackney – chariot, and saw a Panorama and some other sights, and took
David Copperfield
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And so folk say that Brynhild drave in her chariot down along the way to Hell, and passed by an abode where dwelt a certain giantess, and the giantess spake: —
The Story of the Volsungs
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The military use of the chariot is a topic badly in need of a definitive analysis.
Schism Over Afghanistan?
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At their backs they always hear, time's winged chariot hurrying near.
Times, Sunday Times
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Swing low, sweet Chariot is left unaccompanied, but that involves a disturbing oddity of pitching at the start.
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The plates of embossed and chiseled bronze which encased the body of the chariot are figured with admirably-worked subjects in basso-rilievo, many of them relating to the "wondrous tale of Troy.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
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Chanting her Walkyrie war-cry, Brunhilde departs, laughingly calling out to Wotan that he had best be prepared for a call from his wife, who is hastening toward him as fast as her rams can draw her brazen chariot.
Stories of the Wagner Opera
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He is often described riding in a chariot, drawn by furious horses, completely armed, and extending his spear with one hand, while, with the other, he grasps a sword imbued with blood.
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
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There was a dull sound in the air, like the pounding wheels of distant chariots.
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Juno descends in a chariot from the roof over the theatre to converse with Iris and Ceres; they bring with them the bounty and foison of a generous earth to help celebrate.
Shakespeare
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When Beekman purchased his coach from his agent in London, he was already the proud possessor of a chaise, a chariot, and a phaeton.
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Giant elephants and temple gopurams decorated the border and a ‘thalapu’ was adorned with a chariot carrying the Shiva Linga.
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With Theseus, she would want him to harness the horse, guide the chariot, take the sword.
