They were skilful horsemen, and made use of chariots of war.
Will it give us luxurious banquets, or build palaces, or procure chariots of silver, or robes of silk, or oysters of the Lucrine lake, or Falernian wines?
The streets still were filled with the worshippers of Bacchus and Venus, with barbaric captives and their Teuton priests, with chariots and horses, with richly apparelled young men, and fashionable ladies in quest of new perfumes.
These fell unexpectedly upon the enemy, but instead of shooting at any of the men confined themselves to wounding the horses that drew their chariots and consequently in the confusion not even the mounted warriors could save themselves.
Even now the place where the chariots practiced is called Galanum.
Through the gate a constant stream of human life passed in and out; and crowds of chariots and horsemen and wayfarers thronged the road from morning to night.
It is probable that it served more than one purpose; that it was used both as an aqueduct and a road for horses and chariots from the Palatine to the Capitol.
I have designed irresistible protected chariots for the carrying of artillery against the enemy.
Brass culverins, falconets, iron mortars firing stones--drawn by oxen, their heavy chariots rolling along with a dull roar and mixing with the voices of the trumpets and kettledrums.
The chariots of Numa and Augustus, and all the pompous allegorical paraphernalia employed to glorify Il Moro and his Beatrice, were unspeakably melancholy and wretched in the morning brilliance.
Having identified his royal lover with Solomon, the poet was almost driven to make some allusion to Solomon's famed exploit in importing costly horses and chariots from Egypt (I Kings x.
The heavens were opened unto Elder Sylvester Smith, and he, leaping up, exclaimed: "The horsemen of Israel and the chariots thereof.
How blessed the day when the lamb and the lion Shall lie down together without any ire, And Ephraim be crowned with his blessing in Zion, As Jesus descends with His chariots of fire!
And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
And the Lord discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
Stars climbed out of shadowy abysses, and the great chariots of the constellations rode from the West to the East and from the North to the South.
The horses of the chariots were led by Nubian servants, and each chariot represented a rose, wherein sat the duchess who had made it her choice.
I know not why, but since my earliest childhood I have been drawn to the chariots of the great.
Paris had never refused its favourite anything, and Mademoiselle's chariots went and came and no one asked what they contained; the belongings of her friends were transported as freely as her own if they were in her boxes or in her wains.
The last of the battalions filed by the van of the procession, and the chariots and the wains moved on, mingling with the servitors and men of all trades, who in that day followed in the train of all the great.
Where be the sentries who used to salute as the Royal chariots drove in and out?
But it is melancholy to relate, that with these houses and chariots and horses and income, the Captain was constantly in want of money, for which his beloved bride was asking as constantly.
And indeed he soon fell in with a thousand horse and sixty war chariots of the enemy, which he routed, capturing all the chariots, and slaying four hundred of the horsemen.
At the end of the procession were chariots and ships on wheels.
On their chariots are speckled hides; like birds they spread their wings; they strive in flight with each other.
The rattling of the chariots that entered Zadig's court in the evening, filled him with uneasiness; the sound of his praises enraged him still more.
A great deal was said about Thebes and its hundred gates, and of the million of soldiers that issued out of those gates with the twenty thousand chariots of war.
That saved us from serious trouble, for the chariots run over a lot of negroes, which pleased the audience, and they let us off without killing us.
The way the job is put up is for the two chariots to start, and go around twice.
We have failed to notice any passage that gave a definite assurance that either cavalry or war chariotswere used in their campaigns.
Yet he managed to take off the wheels of Pharaoh's chariots at the Red Sea.
Races on foot, horseback, and in chariots were practised with admirable skill in Egypt.
The chariots of the gods glide readily upwards and stand upon the outside; the revolution of the spheres carries them round, and they have a vision of the world beyond.
He could only assume that, in some manner, the chariots had malfunctioned.
Then arrived chariots with fires of red and blue flashing upon their heads, screaming like night creatures in tales he had been told.
Demo left the building, watched the chariots stopped in the broad streets, growls issuing from inside.
In due time the horseless chariotsmoved away, the mass chasing in single file the leader.
The chariotslined up, one behind the other, all emitting similar shrills.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chariots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
