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Example sentences for "chariot drawn"

  • In his travels, King Muh rode in a chariot drawn by eight splendid horses; the right-hand horses were of a dark colour, while those on the left hand were greenish.

  • A Triumph was a solemn procession, in which a victorious general entered the city in a chariot drawn by four horses.

  • He returned to Rome in triumph, and entered the city in a chariot drawn by four elephants.

  • Camillus entered Rome in a chariot drawn by four white horses.

  • Apollo also appears in a chariot drawn by a boar and a lion at the marriage of Kadmos and Harmonia.

  • Sometimes she is veiled, and seated on a throne with lions at her side; at other times she rides in a chariot drawn by lions.

  • Admetus was a suitor, with others, for the hand of Alcestis, the daughter of Pelias, who promised her to him who should come for her in a chariot drawn by lions and boars.

  • Usually he fights on foot, sometimes from a chariot drawn by four horses,--the offspring of the North Wind and a Fury.

  • She ran out of the palace, and whistled a loud, shrill call; and men say that a chariot drawn by dragons came rushing through the air, and that she leaped into it and was carried away, and no one ever saw her again.

  • If you want her, you must come for her in a chariot drawn by a lion and a wild boar.

  • Then Admetus told him all about the fair Alcestis, and how her father would give her only to the man who should come for her in a chariot drawn by a lion and a wild boar.

  • She is generally imaged with her son Cupid, in a chariot drawn by doves, or at other times by swans or sparrows.

  • His throne was a chariot drawn by four fiery steeds; his stature is grand, and his appearance imposing; he wears the look of an old man, his long beard and hair, wet with the vapour of the water.

  • In some medals, a chariot drawn by four horses, appears at the top of her helmet.

  • The wife of Jupiter is always represented as superbly arrayed, in a chariot drawn by two peacocks, where she sat with a sceptre in her hand, having always a peacock beside her.

  • We were all of us there, and Unda Maris came from her home in the sea in a chariot drawn by sea-lions, and Echo came from her high castle in a chariot drawn by zephyrs.

  • Towards the end of the feast, the Fairy of the Yellow Mines arrived in a chariot drawn by two snorting dragons.

  • He also made her agree to fly with him next night, in a chariot drawn by winged frogs, of which a great magician, one of his friends, had made him a present.

  • But finding this scheme ineffectual, she resolved to carry him to a place altogether as pleasant as the other was terrible; and accordingly placed him in a chariot drawn by swans.

  • In the foreground on the right are a woman with a little boy, a chariot drawn by a horse which is led by a peasant.

  • Balaam is followed by two horsemen in Roman costume, and behind them is a chariot drawn by two horses.

  • The grandmother, father, mother, four boys, and two girls are walking in a landscape where is also seen a chariot drawn by a handsome black horse of the Frisian race that Aelbert Cuijp so often paints.

  • He for the first time instituted the formal "triumph," as it was afterwards celebrated, riding into the city after a victory in a chariot drawn by four white horses, and wearing a robe bespangled with gold.

  • Day after day the temples were crowded, and Camillus, hailed as a public benefactor, rode to the capitol in a chariot drawn by four white horses.

  • She was represented as a matron crowned with towers, seated in a chariot drawn by lions.

  • He is often represented riding on a panther, or seated in a chariot drawn by lions, tigers, panthers, or lynxes.

  • But before he could reach her, a chariot drawn by flying dragons, none knew whence, had borne her away, none knew whither, through the air.

  • You will know her, from pictures and statues, as a noble and stately goddess, crowned with a garland of corn, holding a lighted torch, sometimes standing in a chariot drawn by flying dragons.

  • Straight forward he went like some hunted thing, turning neither to right nor left, till he came to a narrow path, where he met an old man in a chariot drawn by mules, with his trusty servants round him.

  • When he went to rest that night he could dream of nought but her, and of how all men would marvel when they saw him come to bear her away in a chariot drawn by a lion and a boar.

  • When they hail thee victor, and bid thee come to fetch away thy bride, as her father willed, answer boldly that the next day at noon thou wilt come in a chariot drawn by a lion and a boar to bear her away to thine own land.

  • Footnote 217: Plutarch may mean that Pompeius really attempted to enter the gate in a chariot drawn by elephants, and finding that he could not do it, he got out and mounted a chariot drawn by horses.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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