Beyond the house of Castor and Pollux is that of the Centaur (VI.
A good example has already been given, the end wall of a bedroom in the house of the Centaur (Fig.
The figure of the satyr is replaced by a centaur who carries off one of the nymphs.
Twixt Whale and Centaur after these the edge of strife is fine, And hard they struggle each with each to win the foremost place.
On each side of him is a group of three, a centaur trying to carry off a woman and a Lapith striking at him.
Has not Neptune given to the Centaur the impetuous strength of the storm?
He fled away, and spake no further word; And I beheld a Centaur full of rage Come crying out: "Where is, where is the scoffer?
People I saw within up to the eyebrows, And the great Centaur said: "Tyrants are these, Who dealt in bloodshed and in pillaging.
A little farther on the Centaur stopped Above a folk, who far down as the throat Seemed from that boiling stream to issue forth.
Thus the idea of a centaur is a complex mental picture composed of the ideas of man and horse, that of a mermaid of a woman and a fish.
Thus the image of a centaur is the result of combining the common percepts of man and horse: fairy tales and fiction generally are the result of this process of combination.
The centaur and the satyr are no longer grotesque; the type is accepted.
The name of theCentaur that was destroyed by Hercules for insulting his wife Deianira.
It would appear, on the supposition that the parallax of Sirius is not greater than that accurately determined for the brightest star in the Centaur (0".
The things I really relied upon seem to be of little account; the mere fact that my picture is of a female Centaur exercises fascination; it passes for a novelty and a marvel, as indeed it is.
One of these daring pieces of his represented a female Centaur, nursing a pair of infant Centaur twins.
The centaur Chiron, who cannot die, although suffering from an incurable wound, sacrifices himself for Prometheus, who is thereupon reconciled with the gods.
For, on the whole, it would have been more probable that even he had fallen into some error of interpretation of the facts which came under his observation, than that such an animal as a centaur really existed.
You can almost hear the bees on Mount Hymettus, and you would receive the advance of a Centaur as calmly as Alice noted the approach of the White Rabbit.
The centaur Eurytion, heated with wine, attempted to carry off the bride.
I did not see you since you sent me hence Home to the Centaur with the gold you gaue me Ant.
The centaur Chiron was killed by Hercules's poisoned arrows.
A centaur whom Hercules shot with a poisoned arrow.
How strange that bronze figure looks," said Mr Girtle, glancing up at the great centaur looming indistinctly against the stained-glass window, in whose recess it stood.
So might you, more fortunately guided, have been led at last up the green sides of Pelion, to the ancestral, the primeval, Centaur still waiting majestic on the summit!
The Lost Centaur It is somewhere set down (or does the legend only exist in the great volume of ought-to-be-writ?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "centaur" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dragon; harpy; monster; ogre; troll; unicorn
