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Example sentences for "quadriga"

Lexicographically close words:
quadratures; quadrennial; quadric; quadriceps; quadriform; quadrigemina; quadrilateral; quadrille; quadrilles; quadripartite
  1. Around the quadriga ran men who shook thyrses ornamented with ribbons; others beat drums; others scattered flowers.

  2. At the very beginning of the spectacle Cæsar had appeared among the people in a magnificent quadriga of the Circus, drawn by four white steeds.

  3. On the top was a quadriga with a statue of the Emperor.

  4. Is that his fine quadriga in front of the high garden gate yonder?

  5. He felt obliged to Orion for this pretty scene, and when he heard the young man's quadriga approaching at an easy trot behind him, he turned round to gaze.

  6. It is sometimes varied by placing the quadriga to the front.

  7. The reverse of this vase represents a quadriga seen from the front (a typical Chalcidian subject).

  8. Long reflection was impossible; suddenly he felt carried away by a fierce and mad longing to fight it out--he felt as he had felt on a race-day in the hippodrome, when he had driven his own quadriga ahead of all the rest.

  9. The clatter of the quadriga drew Justinus to the window; as soon as he recognized Orion he waved a table-napkin to him, shouting a hearty "Welcome!

  10. Quadriga for the New House of Parliament at Vienna.

  11. Each quadriga is accompanied by a marshal, pompeus.

  12. A figure drives a quadriga to the front; two figures are standing to the front, one at each side of the chariot.

  13. The Helios upon the quadriga in Rhodes, besides its human beauty, may possibly have been of great importance in type and conception; but this is not assured by the fact that Nero prized it highly, and ordered it to be gilded.

  14. A Hercules within, and the quadriga upon the gable of the same temple, both also of terra-cotta, are ascribed to this artist.

  15. In Southern Etruria monumental sculpture must early have attained a certain importance, since Tarquinius Priscus ordered from Vulca, or Vulcanius of Veii, a statue of the Capitoline Jupiter, and a quadriga for the gable ridge of his temple.

  16. The horses in the quadriga with which Marcus, the son of Mary, made his appearance in the arena had never before been driven in the Hippodrome.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quadriga" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.